A Tucson Sunset — Panorama by kenne
Beautiful sunsets need clouds in the sky.
— kenne
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Nature Doing Its Thing 3 comments
Nature Doing Its Thing — Bee On Prickly Pear Cactus Image by kenne
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Trailing Windmills — Image by kenne
The orchid-colored trailing windmills is a vine that grows along the ground; the plant may be 10 feet across.
The stems, leaves, and buds are covered with soft white hair. The stems and flowers are sticky, and one rarely finds
a flower without grains of sand stuck on the upper surface. Technically, what appears to be 1 flower is a cluster
of 3 resembling a single radially symmetrical flower but no one but a trained botanist would ever guess it.
— Source: wildflower.org
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Golden Columbine Wildflower In The Santa Catalina Mountains — Image by kenne
“We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own.
For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.”
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Desert Cottontail In The Brush Leave a comment
Desert Cottontail Sylvilagus auduboni (Sabino Canyon Recreational Area) — Image by kenne
The desert portion of their common name arises from their distribution across the arid lands of the
American Southwest and Plains states. “Auduboni” honors John James Audubon,
the famous bird painter and naturalist.
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Birding In Ecuador 1 comment
Andean Cockof the Rock — Image by Hugh Poland
In early February, my stepson-in-law went birding in Ecuador. Upon his return to Kingwood, Texas, Hugh put together this trip video.
— kenne
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Prickly Pear Blossom Abstract 2 comments
Prickly Pear Blossom — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Prickly Pear Blossom
Most all nature is ad lib
Theme variations.
— kenne
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No Rain In Those Clouds Leave a comment
“No Rain In Those Clouds” — Image by kenne
No rain in those clouds
Looking up through high still air
Ancient rocks give way.
— kenne
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Sabino Canyon, Cedar Waxwing Leave a comment
Sabino Canyon, Cedar Waxwing — Image by kenne
Waxwings
Four Tao philosophers as cedar waxwings
chat on a February berry bush
in sun, and I am one.
Such merriment and such sobriety—
the small wild fruit on the tall stalk—
was this not always my true style?
Above an elegance of snow, beneath
a silk-blue sky a brotherhood of four
birds. Can you mistake us?
To sun, to feast, and to converse
and all together—for this I have abandoned
all my other lives.
— Robert Francis
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Winter Wren In Sabino Canyon Leave a comment
Winter Wren In Sabino Canyon — Photo-Artistry by kenne
“‘Hear! hear!’ screamed the jay from a neighboring tree,
where I had heard a tittering for some time,
‘winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel,
if you know where to look for it.'”
– Henry David Thoreau
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Empress Leilia Butterfly 1 comment
Empress Leilia Butterfly — Image by kenne
Colors of butterfly images
depend heavily on lighting
and angle of the sunlight,
which can make identification
a challenge for novice
butterfly watchers.
— kenne
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Barn Owl Up Close 2 comments
Barn Owl Up Close — Image by kenne
Nature is not to be
put in order,
nature is order.
We must put
ourselves
in accord
with this order.
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Raven In A Winter Wonderland 3 comments
Raven In A Winter Wonderland — Image by kenne
Create the picture you wish to show
Relieve my mind before I blow.
Use my hand,
I’ll take the chance,
I trust you with my mind and limb
Sing to me your silent hymn
Sedate me with your loving trance,
Trace your world upon this pale land.
— from A Raven In The Snow by AemmaBella
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Macaws In Flight In The Amazon (August 2019) — Image by kenne
Attractive to see
Always announce their presence
Noisy to the ear.
— kenne
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Road To Mt. Lemmon 1 comment
Fall Colors On The Road To Mt. Lemmon — Image by kenne
I know fall is here
You can feel it in the air
Signs are everywhere.
A blue sky above
Framing the colors of fall
Can we stop the clock?
The days are shorter
Our nights are by the fireplace
It’s hot-toddy time!
— kenne
Becoming is Superior to Being 