Images my kenne (Click on any images to see a larger view in a slideshow format.)
Leaving the house for an early morning run,
I was greeted with white cactus blossoms
that bloomed over night in time to say,
“Good Morning!”
— kenne
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The Desert Has Its Own Way Of Saying “Good Morning” Leave a comment
My Cactus Spring 2 comments
“My Cactus Spring” Computer Art by kenne
You can never ignore a cactus in bloom.
— Albert Einstein
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Cactus Flower Outside Doctor’s Office 2 comments
Cactus Flower — Grunge Art by kenne
We have been spending a lot of time in doctor’s offices the last few months.
I have been storing thoughts in my head for a future poem as I stare at walls,
some with art, some in need.
At sometime in our lives we have all experience the anxious wait, whether as a
patient, parent, partner, or friend. If your lucky, you make it into your seventies
before the frequency of visits spikes above one.
At some time in the early nineties, poet Dave Smith wrote the poem, “Doctor’s Office”,
which was published in his book, Fate’s Kite — Poems, 1991 -1995. I find his poems very
enjoyable to read, maybe because they reach deep touching the southern boy of the
same generation. Just reading the titles in the Contents is for me, poetry —
The Innerness of Churchland / Wreck in the Woods / Selective Service, 1965 / Blowfish
and Mudtoad / Elegy for My Friend’s Suit / Nine Ball / A May of Your Small Town /
Breasts / The Endless Days of Sixties Sunshine / Watering the Dog / Onion Mother /
Nature Moment / Mississippi River Bridge / Irish Whiskey in the Backyard — and of course;
Doctor’s Office
There’s never anything good to read is there?
Only plenty of dated stuff, like deaths,
the usual missing page of Field and Stream,
its multi-color ads for bullets guns ruffed
grouse; also House Beautiful, foyer, parlor,
wings rooms like nobody’s home we know cheesecake
so good-looking seas will scab before any’s
on your plate; last year’s Time’s Man of the year,
the crisis still unsolved, the parent rag
no one reads, same place same people same movie
review, and who’s the sick person sits down and asks
what’s your pleasure? Nurse like the muse says you can go
in please your balls aching. Thanks. And no escape.
— from Fate’s Kite — Poems, 1991 -1995, by Dave Smith
You have to be patient to be a patient in a doctor’s office.
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Cactus Flower Art 1 comment
Cactus Flower — Computer Art by kenne
If people were like flowers
I could enjoy them more.
–kenne
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Saguaro Blossoms 5 comments
Saguaro Blossoms In Sabino Canyon — Images by kenne
A very dry spring
Hasn’t slowed cactus blossoms —
Saguaros in March.
— kenne
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Spring Cactus Blossom Leave a comment
Spring Cactus Blossom — Image by kenne
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Having A Grunge Art Morning 2 comments
“Having A Grunge Art Morning” (Sunday, November 1, 2015) — Computer Art by kenne
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“Roses” — Abstract Art 1 comment
“Roses” — Abstract Art by kenne
(You distant, dim unknown—or young or old—countless, un-
specified, readers belov’d,
We never met, and ne’er shall meet—and yet our souls embrace,
long, close and long;)
— from “Thanks In Old Age” by Walt Whitman
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The Spirit That Is Me 2 comments
Juniper Tree, Spirit That Is Me — Image by kenne
“If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a Juniper tree or the wings of a vulture
— that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves.”
— Edward Abbey
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Morning Walk — Cactus Blossom 1 comment
Morning Walk — Cactus Blossom — Image by kenne
“Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception. The world, you realize, is enormous in a way that only you and a small community of fellow hikers know. Planetary scale is your little secret.”
— Bill Bryson
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Barrel Cactus Are Starting Bloom Leave a comment
Barrel Cactus are Starting to Bloom in Sabino Canyon (August 3, 2015) — Images by kenne
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A Popular Cactus Blossom 1 comment
Bee & Mesquite Beetle on a Prickly Pear Blossom — Image by kenne
I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for
any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is
worth a hundred “great books” — and one brave deed
is worth a thousand.
— Edward Abbey
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Blossom of Colors 1 comment
“Blossom of Colors” — Computer Art by kenne
What is art?
What is life?
What is time?
I know, but
when you ask me
I don’t.
To define
is to fix
in place,
nothing
in real life
is fixed.
— kenne
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Desert Blooms In The Summertime 4 comments
Cactus Blossoms in Tanuri Ridge — Images by kenne
(Click on any of the tiled images for larger view in a slideshow format.)
These beautiful cactus flowers will grace us for about 24 hours adding to the dynamic summertime experience in the desert.
kenne
” . . . the desert is a vast world,
an oceanic world,
as deep in its way
and complex
and various
as the sea.”
— Edward Abbey
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Just Can’t Get Enough Desert Beauty 2 comments
Prickly Pear Cactus Blossom — Image by kenne
A rose, well, a rose was
just a prom queen standing still
for a photo. Mountain sunsets,
waterfalls, they were postcards to send
to good friends who trusted happiness
occurred, if at all, in other places.
— from the poem “Nature” by Stephen Dunn
