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
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Greater Roadrunner — Digital Art by kenne
Here he comes again
Bird on the patio wall
Stalking a lizard.
— kenne
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Greater Roadrunner Sitting On Nest 3 comments
Greater Roadrunner Sitting On Nest In A Cholla Cacti — Image by kenne
A capitalist society requires a culture based on images.
It needs to furnish vast amounts of entertainment in order to
stimulate buying and anesthetize the injuries of class, race, and sex.”
— from “On Photography” by Susan Sontag
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Greater Roadrunner — Big Guy On The Ground 1 comment
Greater Roadrunner — Image by kenne
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Greater Roadrunner On A Cold Morning 3 comments
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
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Greater Roadrunner On A Southwest Day 2 comments
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
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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.
Greater roadrunner
Up in the patio tree
Beep-beep back at you.
— kenne
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Greater Roadrunner Photo Essay 3 comments
(Click on Any of the Tiled Images for a Larger View in a Slideshow Format.)
Greater Roadrunner Photo Essay by kenne
Alert and cunning
All business searching for food
This is not a show.
— kenne
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Greater Roadrunner (December 12, 2016) — Images by kenne
Learning is exciting.
It is important to cultivate
the love of learning
so that it transcends
academia and becomes
a way of life.
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Bryce Canyon Snapshots 2 comments
Geological fact: Bryce Canyon isn’t actually a canyon.
It’s actually a natural amphitheater.
(Click on any of the tiled images for a larger view in a slideshow format.)
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.”
“Paiute Indian history says the colorful,
wildly-shaped hoodoos were ‘Legend People’
who were turned into stone by the trickster god Coyote.”
. . . and I thought the roadrunner was the trickster!
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The Grays Have It! 3 comments
The Grays Have It! — Greater Roadrunner Image by kenne
Perched up in the tree
Not lesser than the greater
Looking good to her.
— kenne
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One Of My Favorite Birds 2 comments
Greater Roadrunner — Image by kenne
This is the thirteenth posting on this crazy adorable bird. The largest cuckoo, the Greater Roadrunner is characterized by a long tail, streaked appearance, frequently erected shaggy crest, and a blue and orange bare patch of skin behind the eyes.
A speedster, this cuckoo is capable of running rapidly across the ground (15 mph) and only occasionally flies. Like all cuckoos, the Roadrunner is a zygodactyl bird (it has 2 toes pointing forward and 2 toes backward).
Hardly a day goes by without seeing one in the Sonoran desert. A predator, but unlike in the cartoons the Roadrunner is prey to the coyote.
–kenne
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Greater Roadrunner — “So Shall His Life Be Taken Away” 1 comment
Greater Roadrunner In A Mesquite Tree
Greater Roadrunner In A Mesquite Tree
Greater Roadrunner at the End of Life — Images by kenne
There is no such thing as death.
In nature nothing dies.
From each sad remnant of decay,
some forms of life arise
so shall his life be taken away
before he knoweth that he hath it.
–Charles Mackay
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A Greater Roadrunner Takes To The Trees 1 comment
Greater Roadrunners are usually seen running on the ground,
this roadrunner left the road for a nearby mesquite tree.
Images by kenne
