Golden Columbine On Mt. Lemmon, July 2022 — Image by kenne
The only wisdom we can hope to acquire
Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.
— from Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot
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Golden Columbine On Mt. Lemmon 3 comments
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Golden Columbine Wildflower — Image by kenne
The Golden Columbine is native to moist canyon seeps in the Chihuahuan and Sonoran deserts of southwestern
North America. The word columbine comes from columbinus, in Latin “dove,” referring to the flower’s resemblance
to a cluster of 5 doves. The spurs represent the birds’ heads and shoulders; the spreading sepals,
the wings; the blade of the petal, each bird’s body. The genus name, from the Latin aquila (“eagle”),
alludes to the petals, which resemble eagle talons. — Source: wildflower.org
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Golden Columbine Wildflower In The Santa Catalina Mountains — Image by kenne
“We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own.
For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.”
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Golden Columbine On Box Camp Trail 1 comment
Golden Columbine On Box Camp Trail (Santa Catalina Mountains) — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Mountain rains
bring out wildflowers
yellow and orange
in a sea green.
— kenne
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A Columbine Bouquet — Image by kenne
At the edge of a stream
Stretching through mountain woods
Watching clouds create dark shadows
That sink down the stream where
Golden columbines shine
Though the dark shadows.
— kenne
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Nothing Gold Can Stay 1 comment
Golden Columbine — Image by kenne
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down today.
Nothing gold can stay.
— Robert Frost
Sunset — Image by kenne
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Nature Is A Sphere Leave a comment
Mt. Lemmon Golden Columbine — Image by kenne
Nature is a sphere
Revealing cosmic patterns
In all the clutter.
— kenne
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Golden Columbine Art 1 comment
Golden Columbine Art by kenne
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
— E. O. Wilson
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The Columbine Wildflower, My Mountain Muse II 1 comment
The Columbine Wildflower, My Mountain Muse II
sometimes I whisper
to my mountain muse —
come to my place.
come tomorrow.
on the way home
I thought of her
the yellow strips,
the dividing line.
— kenne
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The Columbine Wildflower, My Mountain Muse 1 comment
Columbine Wildflower Computer Art — Image by kenne
Always so tempting,
like the daughters
of the mountain god
tempting me to climb
down the narrow ravine,
I walked by
talking to myself
hoping to not hear
the music of
my mountain muse.
We hiked miles
before I decided
to photograph
another columbine,
attracted by the sound
of the nearby stream
providing background vocals,
as sun rays kissed
her golden lips.
— kenne
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Expanding My Golden Columbine WildflowerConsciousness 1 comment
Expanding My Golden Columbine Wildflower Consciousness — Image by kenne
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Golden Columbine With A Grunge Art Layer 1 comment
Golden Columbine with a Grunge Art Layer — Image by kenne
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The Flower, . . . 2 comments
Golden Columbine (Aquilegia chrysantha) — Image by kenne
The flower,
without it
there would be
no humanity.
— kenne
Becoming is Superior to Being 