Archive for the ‘Landscape’ Category
Succulent Graveyard (Normally drought resistant plants having trouble surviving.) — Images by kenne
When we moved to Tucson eleven years ago, a small patch of succulents (a type of aloe) grew on the rocky slope next to the house. I have not watered them, but the past year we have had very little rain; many have died, and those not dead the tips have dried up in an attempt to save the plant. There were no flowers this spring.
So, I decided to pull up each plant. For several days I spent early mornings pulling up each aloe plant. Now I have to bag what remains.
— kenne
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View Above Hutch’s Pool In the Santa Catalina Mountains — Image by kenne
“In those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant,
it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go out and see her riches,
and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.”
— John P. Milton
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A Grove of Saguaros in Sabino Canyon — Photo-Artistry by kenne
And now we welcome the new year,
full of things that have never been.
— Ranier Maria Rilke
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Esperero Trail In Sabino Canyon — Panorama by kenne
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
— T. S. Eliot
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Winter Near The Santa Cruz River North Of Nogales, Arizona — Image by kenne
“It is not your responsibility to finish the work of perfecting the world,
but free to desist from it either.”
— Rabbi Tarfon
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Abstract Nature (If you look carefully, this is landscape art.) — Computer art by kenne
On the road in Colorado.
— kenne
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Water Over the Dam — Computer Art by kenne
he stands by the shore
watching water
flow over the dam
from the little creek
now a lake
soon to be
a creek again —
a journey to ponder
. . . is it just water over the dam?
kenne
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Caesalpinia pulcherrima, Red Bird of Paradise — Computer Painting by kenne
I HIDE myself within my flower,
That wearing on your breast,
You, unsuspecting, wear me too—
And angels know the rest.
I hide myself within my flower,
That, fading from your vase,
You, unsuspecting, feel for me
Almost a loneliness.
— Emily Dickinson
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Douglas Spring Trail Panorama Image by kenne
In the moment you feel a
belonging to an ancient time,
a time not seen, yet you feel it —
the dryness of a land
parched, dying of thirst.
Soon the trail switches back
and forth around large boulders
where lizards live in the dust
sometimes seen atop a boulder
doing their daily pushups
in the bright sunlight
soon returning to a dark place.
Stand here in the moment,
take yourself down the trail
toward the distant mountains.
The trail is narrow and dusty,
so narrow there are hikers
in front of you and behind,
not to your side, this is not
a shoulder to shoulder march,
this is a hike in single file.
Having entered this picture
you can stay till the poem ends
and the magic fades away.
For me, the photographer,
a part of me remains
poised in the moment.
— kenne
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Alamos Flowers — Images by kenne
(Click on any of the images for larger view in a slideshow format.)
Tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes!
— from “Lines Written in Early Spring” by William Wordsworth
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Hacienda de los Santos Entrance — Images by kenne
Jim and Nancy Swickard purchased the 300-year-old Hacienda in 1989 and renovation became their obsession. Along with daughter Jamie, her husband Ramon their devotion to details has helped create a truly luxurious hideaway with a genuine flavor of Old Mexico. Without question, Hacienda de los Santos is the crown jewel of Alamos, one of Mexico’s most splendid colonial cities. Once you enter this colonial village, you’ll experience the feeling of a different age, the romanticism of Spain and the sweetness of Old Mexico.
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Grunge Art Landscape by kenne
“The philosophy of the populists was that you can’t have political democracy if you don’t have economic democracy. Justice Brandeis put it plainly: ‘You can have democracy in this country or you can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but you can’t have both.’ When I get a chance, I go out and talk about this thing, write about it, and preach about it.”
Merle Hansen, 74 (Newman Grove, Nebraska)
— from “Coming of Age – The Story of Our Century By Those Who’ve Lived It” by Studs Terkel
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Becoming is Superior to Being 