Anas’s Hummingbird On Our Patio in the Morning Light — Image by kenne
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Front Range Snow On the Catalinas — Image by kenne
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A Tucson Morning — Image by kenne
Clouds shift with the wind—
what seems dark may hold the light,
wait and let it pass.
Tanuri Ridge Cloudy Morning Sun — Image by kenne
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Morning Sun Through The Trees — Photo-artistry by kenne
When I Am Among The Trees
— Mary Oliver
Morning Shadows In The Sonoran Desert — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Yes, the sun has risen again.
I can see the windows change and hear a dog barking.
The wind buckles the slender top of the alder,
the conversation of night birds hushes,
and I can hear my heart regular and strong.
I will live to see the day end as I lived to see
the earth turn molten and white, then to metal,
then to whatever shape we stamped into it
as we laughed the long night hours away
or sang how the eagle flies on Friday.
When Friday came, the early hours perfect
and cold, we cursed our only lives
and passed the bottle back and forth.
— from One Day by Philip Levine
Morning Reflection (Mammoth Lakes, California)– Image by kenne
Sunlight and Shadows — Images by kenne
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“Forgetting Clouds” — Image by kenne
Forgetting Clouds
The quiet morning has a few cloud friends
that are gone when I look for them again
in this one summer to which I have come
after everything that I remember
what can I call it before it has gone
it does not hear me and does not know me
it passes without seeing I am here
it is only me going my own way
there is no one else who can forget it
— W. S. Mervin
“W. S. Merwin, a formidable American poet who for more than 60 years labored under a formidable poetic yoke: the imperative of using language — an inescapably concrete presence on the printed page — to conjure absence, silence and nothingness, died on Friday at his home near Haiku-Pauwela, Hawaii. He was 91.” New York Times, March 15, 2019
Sun Through the Trees Near Sabino Creek — Image by kenne
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The Sabino Canyon Volunteer Naturalists training class went on a bird walk this morning (January 2, 2017), led by Jean and Mark Hengesbaugh.
Images by kenne (Click on any image for a larger view in a slideshow format.)
Jean recorded the following eBird list of observed birds:
Sabino Dam and downstream riparian, Pima, Arizona, US
Jan 2, 2017 7:37 AM – 8:46 AM Protocol: Traveling 1.0 mile(s) 13 species
Gambel’s Quail 6
Great Blue Heron 1
Mourning Dove 2
Anna’s Hummingbird 1
Gila Woodpecker 4
Verdin 2
Cactus Wren 2
Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 2
Western Bluebird 10
Curve-billed Thrasher 2
Northern Mockingbird 2
Phainopepla 10
House Finch 6
The Hengesbaugh’s lead a bird walk for the Tucson Audubon the 1st Saturday of each month in Sabino Canyon. (Must pre-register through Tucson Audubon.)
Thunder Mountain, Sedona, Arizona (June 15, 2016) — Panorama by kenne
The story goes that Walt Disney, who once had a home in Sedona, was so inspired by the beauty of Thunder Mountain that it became a theme park concept — Big Thunder Mountain. Fact or fiction, Disney did spend time in Sedona and it’s easy to believe that such a creative person had to have been inspired by the Red Rock Country, therefore becoming an influence in a lot of his work.
While in Sedona recently, we went on a backcountry jeep tour taking us behind Thunder Mountain and one of the “fun facts” we were told was Disney and Thunder Mountain — what myths are made from.
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Thunder Mountain Panorama by kenne
Sedona Vortex Morning (June 15, 2016) — Images by kenne
Birds singing
Sedona daylight
Coffee at Starbucks
On the path
Twisted juniper trees
Mini masa vortex
Feeling the energy
Intensifying the moment.
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“Desert Silhouette”
Desert Silhouette
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Dry Reeds in the Wash (Tanque Verde Wash, January 13, 2016) — Image by kenne
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