Greater Roadrunner — Image by kenne
A cuckoo bird that lives for speed,
With your shaggy crest, what a site indeed.
Streaked feathers break up your silhouette.
And your unusual track, not your typical set.
A blue and orange patch behind your eyes,
You prefer to chase prey, instead of fly.
Your expressive long tail flips here and there…
Quail chicks and k-rats best beware.
— from Roadrunner by Michelle Hedgecock
Greater Roadrunner Photo-Artistry by kenne
Greater Roadrunner In Mesquite Tree — Image by kenne
Roadrunners don’t spend much time in trees. However, this guy was in a mesquite tree where he could more easily be seen and heard by a female a few hundred feet away — it worked.
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Greater Roadrunner — Grunge Art by kenne
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Greater Roadrunner Stalking A Tree Lizard In A Mesquite Tree — Image by kenne
Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
— Robert M. Pirsig
Greater Roadrunner — Digital Art by kenne
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Greater Roadrunner Sitting On Nest In A Cholla Cacti — Image by kenne
— from “On Photography” by Susan Sontag
Greater Roadrunner — Image by kenne
Greater Roadrunner Sunning on a Cold Morning in Sabino Canyon — Image by kenne
I do not know if the desert can be loved,
but it is in the desert that my treasure lies hidden.
— Paulo Coelho
Greater Roadrunner On A Southwest Day — Image by kenne
I watch him as he ponders my presence,
only a temporary distraction from
the lizard now locked in step
blinding into the tree bark
disposing of intricate patterns.
Soon the runner disappears
into some unknown world,
no known direction, dissolving
into the brink, yet native lands.
— kenne
Greater Roadrunner In Patio Olive Tree — Image by kenne
As if to welcome us back, this roadrunner was in the olive tree on our patio. Nice to see you, my friend.
— kenne
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Greater Roadrunner Photo Essay by kenne
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Greater Roadrunner (December 12, 2016) — Images by kenne
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Bryce Canyon Snapshots by kenne
This beautiful land of hoodoos is best view at sunrise or sunset. Unfortunately
these images were taken around mid-day — still a beautiful National Park to visit.
Named after pioneer and cattleman Ebenezer Bryce, who once said of the canyon,
“One hell of a place to loose a cow.”
. . . and I thought the roadrunner was the trickster!
The Grays Have It! — Greater Roadrunner Image by kenne
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