Douglas Springs Trail — Image by kenne
Morning sun raises
Over the Rincon Mountains
Removing the chill.
— kenne
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Young Aspens In The Forest 2 comments
Young Aspens In The Forest — Image by kenne
Lost and certain of it, the woods crowd in
allowing only glimpses of the track
that was so clear and broad and well-traveled
only moments back where the sun fell bright
between the leaves to dapple the mast, but
lost and certain of it, the woods crowd in
spinning the senses like leaves in a wind
risen from the past to obscure the path
that was so clear and broad and well traveled.
Let the woods crowd out
all that is clear and broad and well traveled.
— from Lost and certain of it by Bryce Milligan
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Carillo Trail 3 comments
Carillo Trail — Image by kenne
“The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body.”
— Jean Baudrillard
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Ventana Canyon Looking Down To The Tucson Basin — Image by kenne
“After a day’s walk, everything has twice its usual value.”
— G.M. Trevelyan
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Mushroom On Mt. Lemmon 2 comments
Orange Cap Mushroom On Mt. Lemmon — Image by kenne
“One doesn’t stop seeing.
One doesn’t stop framing.
It doesn’t turn off and turn on.
It’s on all the time.”
— Annie Leibovitz
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Seven Falls Hike 1 comment
Photo-artistry by kenne
The thin layer in which life exists is both fragile and resilient;
the earth does not need us, which is why we should care about it.
— Eric Walsh
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Coprin de Romagnesi Mushrooms 2 comments
Coprin de Romagnesi Mushrooms Image by kenne
The Mushroom is the Elf of Plants
The Mushroom is the Elf of Plants –
At Evening, it is not
At Morning, in a Truffled Hut
It stop opon a Spot
As if it tarried always
And yet it’s whole Career
Is shorter than a Snake’s Delay –
And fleeter than a Tare –
’Tis Vegetation’s Juggler –
The Germ of Alibi –
Doth like a Bubble antedate
And like a Bubble, hie –
I feel as if the Grass was pleased
To have it intermit –
This surreptitious Scion
Of Summer’s circumspect.
Had Nature any supple Face
Or could she one contemn –
Had Nature an Apostate –
That Mushroom – it is Him!
— Emily Dickinson
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Guiding Photographers For Sunrise Photographs 2 comments
Guiding Pheonix Area Photographers To Get Sunrise Photos In Sabino Canyon — Photo-Artistry by kenne
The photographer
seeks to connect what
is already connected; the
past, present, and future
in a moment of existence
while being a traveler
in other people’s reality
sharing an awareness
of the present experience.
An awareness of the moment
with the whole being, the artist
is of the experience —
the essence of existence.
The artist desires to share
the essence, but the resulting image
is about the experience, not
of the experience —
the Tao of Observation.
In the process
of capturing an event
the photographer feels
and sees in the moment,
the Tao of an event —
the Tao that is projected
is outside the moment
hence, it is not
the essence of Tao.
— kenne
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A Trail In Southern Utah 3 comments
A Trail In Southern Utah (06/11/14) — Image by kenne
Camera in hand
My images are a record
Of the trails I’ve hiked.
— kenne
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Esperero Canyon Trail 1 comment
Esperero Canyon Trail — Image by kenne
Esperero Canyon trail begins
in Sabino Canyon
winding through the
many giant saguaros
in the lower canyon
slowly going up
made possible
by trail switchbacks.
— kenne
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Hiking Esperero Trail In The Spring 3 comments
Hiking Esperero Trail In the Spring (Santa Catalina Mountains) –Image by kenne
In each line’s strange syllable: she awakes
as a gull, torn
between heaven and earth.
I accept her, stand with her face to face.
—in this dream: she wears her dress
like a sail, runs behind me, stopping
when I stop. She laughs
as a child speaking to herself:
“soul = pain + everything else.”
I bend clumsily at the knees
and I quarrel no more,
all I want is a human window
in a house whose roof is my life
–Marina Tsvetaeva
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Mushrooms On A Log 3 comments
Mushrooms On A Log — HDR Image by kenne
The Mushroom is the Elf of Plants – (1350)
The Mushroom is the Elf of Plants –
At Evening, it is not
At Morning, in a Truffled Hut
It stop opon a Spot
As if it tarried always
And yet it’s whole Career
Is shorter than a Snake’s Delay –
And fleeter than a Tare –
’Tis Vegetation’s Juggler –
The Germ of Alibi –
Doth like a Bubble antedate
And like a Bubble, hie –
I feel as if the Grass was pleased
To have it intermit –
This surreptitious Scion
Of Summer’s circumspect.
Had Nature any supple Face
Or could she one contemn –
Had Nature an Apostate –
That Mushroom – it is Him!
— Emily Dickinson
(For you purest, with respect to Emily Dickinson, we know mushrooms are not plants, but rather they are fungi.)
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A Cavern In Arches National Park Leave a comment
A Cavern In Arches National Park — Image by kenne
“There is nothing so American as our national parks …
the fundamental idea behind the parks …
is that the country belongs to the people,
that it is in the process of making for the
enrichment of the lives of all of us.”
— President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Hiking The Wild Burro Trail 1 comment
Hiking the Wild Burro Trail in the Tortolita Mountains — Image by kenne
This is a popular 6.9-mile loop trail near Marana, Arizona.
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Vermillion Cliffs National Monument Leave a comment
Vermillion Cliffs National Monument — Image by kenne
