Archive for the ‘Bees’ Category

Bee On Buckbrush   Leave a comment

SCVN Nature Walk July 18 2012

Bee On Buckbrush, Mt. Lemmon — Image by kenne

I love this planet… I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I’d like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world.

— Ted Turner

 

Crying Purple Tears   2 comments

Friday with Friends & Molino Basin to Prison Camp“Clear for Landing” — Image by kenne

Lured by her color,

the bee prepares for landing

crying purple tears.

— kenne

Blue Dicks Wildflower & Bee In The Moment   Leave a comment

Miller Creek Trail

Blue Dicks Wildflower & Bee in the Moment — Image by kenne

“Life exists only at this very moment,
and in this moment it is infinite and eternal,
for the present moment is infinitely small;
before we can measure it,
it has gone, and
yet it exists forever….”

— Alan Watts

Carpenter Bee On A Mesquite Tree Blossom   2 comments

Carpenter Bee On Mesquite Bloom (1 of 1) blogCarpenter Bee On A Mesquite Tree Blossom (April 1, 2016) — Image by kenne

Life always waits for some crisis to occur

before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

— from Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho

 

Desert Scene   2 comments

Desert Museum-9781 bee art blogDesert Scene by kenne

Keep close to Nature’s heart…

and break clear away, once in awhile,

and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods.

Wash your spirit clean.

— John Muir

Capturing The Moment — Bee On A Lyreleaf Jewelflower   Leave a comment

Streptanthus carinatus – Lyreleaf Jewelflower (1 of 1) blogBee On a Lyreleaf Jewelflower (March 3, 2016 in Sabino Canyon) — Images by kenne

Streptanthus carinatus – Lyreleaf Jewelflower (1 of 1)-2 art blog

These vase-shaped buds have pedals giving a tassel effect to the top of each bud,
opening just enough for bees and other pollinators to get inside the bud. This desert
wildflower has a tall slender stem and was photographed near Sabino Creek
in Sabino Canyon.

kenne

“If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.”

― Maurice Maeterlinck, The Life of the Bee

Bee On A Wildflower — Grunge Art   Leave a comment

Bee on Flawer Grunge Art blogBee On A Wildflower (Fleabane)– Grunge Art by kenne

To see a world in a grain of sand
and heaven in a wild flower
hold infinity in the palms of your hand
and eternity in an hour.

— William Blake

 

Extracting The Sweetness   1 comment

Wild Cotton (1 of 1)-3 Grunge Art blog“Extracting The Sweetness” — Grunge Art by kenne

“Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.”

— John Muir