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Aspen Fall Colors On Mt. Lemmon — Abstract Art   Leave a comment

Aspen Fall Colors On Mt. Lemmon — Abstract Art by kenne

A tangle of leaves

Shimmering in a light breeze

To its own music.

— kenne

Succulent Graveyard   Leave a comment

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

The Sky Above, The Earth Below   1 comment

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

A Grove of Saguaros   2 comments

Saguaro Family-2-Edit-art-72A 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

 

Esperero Trail In Sabino Canyon   1 comment

Esperero Trail in Sabino Canyon-72Esperero 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

Winter Near The Santa Cruz River   1 comment

De Anza trail January 20, 2014-9522-72Winter 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

Abstrack Nature   Leave a comment

Mt. Lemmon TrainAbstract Nature (If you look carefully, this is landscape art.) — Computer art by kenne

On the road in Colorado.

— kenne

 

Water Over The Dam   Leave a comment

webs-poster-paper-tair-hue-color-rain-blog-framedWater 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

 

Caesalpinia pulcherrima   1 comment

Yard Flowers (1 of 1)-2 art blogCaesalpinia 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

Douglas Spring Trail Panorama   Leave a comment

Douglas Springs HikeDouglas 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

 

Alamos Flowers — A Valentine’s Day Photo Essay   Leave a comment

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 

Hacienda de los Santos In Alamos, Sonora   2 comments

Santos Entrance 2 (1 of 1) blogHacienda 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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Santos (1 of 1)-4 blog

 

Grunge Art Landscape — Now And In The Past Waiting For The Future   Leave a comment

Lake Tahoe Fence (1 of 1)-Grunge Landscape blogGrunge 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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