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Bearded Penstemon On Mt. Lemmon   2 comments

Bearded Penstemon On Mt. Lemmon — Image by kenne

I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.

— Stephen Hawking

Fall Colors   2 comments

Fall Colors On Mt. Lemmon — Image by kenne

Walk the mountain trails
Beauty is all around us
Never to forget.

The words miss the mark
If only they could capture
The moment in time.

So, we keep trying
To share visual moments
And all its beauty.

— kenne

Continue To Digest The Emptiness   Leave a comment

Bear Wallow (1 of 1)-11-2_art blog“Walk Into My World” — Computer Painting by kenne

Continue to digest the emptiness

The wise say all things are
connected in the Universe,
and remain so throughout time —
Continue to digest the emptiness.

The foolish create aliens
from the unknown
“see the dragon in my garage” —
Continue to digest the emptiness.

Still trying to understand the message
in our fleeing experience
we seek to be identical with the stable —
Continue to digest the emptiness.

 Our impermanent passing experience
is where knowledge exist
by not minimizing the significance of the whole —
Continue to digest the emptiness.

Nothing can be retained
even knowledge, like the fruit of the tree
decays as soon as it is ripe —
Continue to digest the emptiness.

As gatekeepers to all things connected
by opening the gates to experience
we learn to love and care for others —
Continue to digest the emptiness.

Seek not to ripen on the tree of knowledge
for knowledge that is “crystal clear”
only decays when ripe —
Continue to digest the emptiness.

To stop connecting is to
is to see the fruit as a constant red
let the shade is constantly changing —
continue to digest the emptiness.

Because we may lack the realization
should stop us from crawling
with the “struggling ant?” —
continue to digest the emptiness.

As our reality is narrowed
our ability to connect
creating meaning and value is diminished —
continue to digest the emptiness.

— kenne

Good Photography Is Gratitude   1 comment

Wildflowers (Santa Catalina Mountains) — Image by kenne

The essence of all good photography is gratitude.

Moving Fast — Abert’s Squirrel   2 comments

Moving Fast — Abert’s Squirrel On Mt. Lemmon — Image by kenne

“People look at me like I’m a little strange
when I go around talking to
squirrels and rabbits and stuff.
That’s ok. That’s just ok.”

View North From Butterfly Trail   Leave a comment

View North from Butterfly Trail on Mt. Lemmon

‘The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.’

– James Baldwin

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 

Silver-spotted Skipper In The Catalina Mountains   3 comments

Silver-spotted Skipper On a Pinewoods Geranium — Image by kenne

This common North American

Butterfly prefers to spend

Its summers in the mountains —

Why not?

— kenne

Summer Hike On The Mountain   1 comment

Summer Hike On Mt. Lemmon — HDR image by kenne

With each photograph

I have a vision and

A story I want to tell.

— kenne

Echo Azure Butterflies   2 comments

Echo Azure Butterflies On a Moist Log — Image by kenne

Angry Raven   3 comments

Angry Raven — Image by kenne

Strong winds are blowing

Signaling a weather change

Clouds darken the skies.

— kenne

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.)
 
 

Snow On Mt. Lemmon   4 comments

Snow On Mt. Lemmon — Image by kenne

“Winter, a lingering season,
is a time to gather golden moments,
embark upon a sentimental journey,
and enjoy every idle hour.”

December 2011   3 comments

Raven In Snow Covered Pine On Mt. Lemmon (12/15/2011) — Image by kenne

Late Season Mushrooms   Leave a comment

Late Season Mushrooms on Mt. Lemmon –IHDR mage by kenne