Bee On Goldeneye — Image by kenne
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Cactus Wren 1 comment
Cactus Wren — Photo-Artistry by kenne
“Photography comes from the moment
existing at the time it was created.”
— kenne
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Pincushion Cactus Flowers — Image by kenne
When most people think of cactus in the Sonoran Desert, the image that comes to mind is the giant saguaro cactus.
The saguaro grows only in the Sonoran Desert is one of the largest cacti. The saguaro cactus is a symbol of the American Southwest.
Its inner meaning expresses the idea of standing tall, adapting to the environment, and providing shelter and nourishment for others.
Given its stature and authority, it holds a grandfatherly type of wisdom.
Because saguaros are so common in the Tucson area, it is home to one of this nation’s national parks, the Saguaro National Park.
However, it is not the most common cactus in the Sonoran Desert. That honor goes to the little pincushion cactus.
Being so small and often in the shadows of the giant saguaro, their chances of being noticed are slim unless they are blooming.
— kenne
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Monsoon Strom Over The Mountains 1 comment
Monsoon Strom Over The Mountains — Image by kenne
monsoon strom comes forth
building over the mountains
much needed rain falls
— kenne
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Ready For Takeoff 1 comment
Ready for Takeoff (Cooper’s Hawk)– Image by kenne
ready for takeoff
flying comes naturally
not a leap of faith
— kenne
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Three Marine Blue Butterflies 1 comment
Three Marine Blue Butterfies On a Green-headed Coneflower (White Mountains) — Image by kenne
three is not a crowd
whole field of the present view
things which are before
— kenne
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The Desert New Normal 1 comment
The Desert New Normal — Photo-Artistry by kenne
desert’s new normal
higher hot and dry levers
get use to it now
— kenne
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Macromeria Wildflowers — Image by kenne
rain on the mountain
brings forth many wildflowers
spring blooms in July
— kenne
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Common Yarrow — Mt. Lemmon Leave a comment
Common Yarrow (Mt. Lemmon) Image by kenne
Out of the darkness
Daylight casts long dark shadows
Soon to disappear.
— kenne
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Shifting Gears Leave a comment
Bee On Desert Chicory (Santa Catalina Mountains) — Image by kenne
You should always know
when you’re shifting gears
in life.
You should leave your era,
it should never leave you.
— Leontyne Price
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Bee On Whitestem Blazingstar Wildflower (Mt. Lemmon) — Image by kenne
These first days of summer are like the pail
of blueberries that we poured out together
into the iron sink in the basement —
a brightness unleashed and spilling over
with tiny bell-shaped flowers, the windows
opened and the shrubs overwhelming the house
like the memory of a forgotten country, Nature,
with its wandering migrations and changing borders,
its thickets, woodlands, bee-humming meadows . . .
— from Summer Surprised Us by Edward Hirsch
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Red Bordered Satye Butterfly Leave a comment
Red Bordered Satye Butterfly — Image by kenne
What are you doing?
Did you not hear the word no?
Too proud to answer?
— kenne
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Sagebrush Checkerspot Butterfly 2 comments
Sagebrush Checkerspot Butterfly On Green-headed Coneflower (White Mountains) — Image by kenne
Nature in a drought
Struggles harness to survive
Still no broken hearts.
— kenne
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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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Silver-spotted Skipper Leave a comment
Silver-spotted Skipper — Image by kenne
“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight,
and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― fromThe Critic as Artist by
