Archive for the ‘Desert Landscape’ Category
Petrified Forest National Park — Images by kenne
Here, one sees the Painted Desert with its fantastic coloring, the petrified forests, deep lateral cañons, the great Cohonino Forest, through which one may ride for five days without finding a drop of water except during the rainy season. Truly, it is a wonderland, and in the Grand Cañon one can think of nothing but the Abomination of Desolation. There is no place in the world at present so accessible, and at the same time so full of the most romantic interest, as are the territories of Arizona and New Mexico.
— from On the Border with Crook, by John G. Bourke (1891)
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Painted Desert National Park Panoramas by kenne
This was our second visit to this National Park, the first time was ten years ago when we were traveling to Las Vegas from The Woodlands, Texas. This time, driving from Tucson we made a brief stop on our way to Telluride and other places in Colorado.
— kenne
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Late Spring Flowers in the Desert — Images by kenne
(Click on any of the tiled images for a larger view in a slideshow format.)
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Blooming Palo Verdes in Sabino Canyon — Painting by kenne
There’s a circle in the canyon
around which we teach kids
about nature and its many cycles.
— kenne
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Dark Desert Grassland — Computer Painting by kenne
I am a desert trail
wondering
through dark grasslands
alone
but not lonely
clothed
with gladness
embraced
by the
mountain ranges
I separate the grass
providing
a sandy channel
for mountain rains
to clean
the desert soul
never
to be wash away.
— kenne
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Sunset By The Wash — Computer Painting by kenne
Thou that hast giv’n so much to me,
Give the thing more, a gratefull heart;
See how Thy beggar works in Thee
By art:
He makes thy gifts occasion more
And says, if he in this be crost,
All Thou hast given him heretofore
Is lost.
— George Herbert
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Windswept Grasslands in the Santa Catalina Mountains — Image by kenne
Taking inspiration from the likes of Lewis Carroll, Robert Frost and Carl Sandburg.
Branches reach into the dark sky
over windswept grasslands,
directing our eyes and ears
to the relationship between
the living and the dead.
— kenne
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