Two-Tailed Swallow On Mexican Bird of Paradise: the Last Signs of Summer — Computer Art by kenne
As far nature,
it is not what it is
that interests me,
but what it becomes.
— kenne
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Two-Tailed Swallow Butterfly Art Leave a comment
Migrating Turkey Vultures, A Photo Essay 1 comment
Migrating Turkey Vultures at Their Tanque Verde Wash Stopover (October 15, 2016) — Images by kenne
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The turkey vulture count has been down this October. One reason for the lower count might be due to the Pima County Regional Wastewater Reclamation Department doing major pipe construction alone the north side of the Tanque Verde wash near where the big birds spend early mornings before continuing their migration south. There is no doubt some irony found in nature’s sanitation department having to put-up with the county’s sanitation department.
— kenne
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Mt. Lemmon Fall Colors, A Photo Essay 3 comments
Mt. Lemmon Fall Colors (October 18, 2016) — Images by kenne
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Mourning Doves Bathing In Patio Water Fountain (October 16, 2016) — Images by kenne
Mourning doves bathing
Children of stone pour water
For more than drinking.
— kenne
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Butterfly Kaleidoscope 1 comment
Butterfly Kaleidoscope — Image by kenne
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
–Rabindranath Tagore
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Sycamore Canyon Panorama Leave a comment
Sycamore Canyon Along the Arizona Trail in the Santa Catalina Mountains (October 7, 2016).
The Arizona Trail is a National Scenic Trail covering 800 miles across desert and mountains from Mexico to Utah.
— Panorama by kenne
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Hunger Caterpillars On A Manzanita Plant Leave a comment
Genus Datana Caterpillars On a Manzanita Plant (Sycamore Canyon Trail, Santa Catalina Mountains, October 7, 2016) — Images by kenne
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Sunset Photo Essay — “Sunset In A Cup” (October 8, 2016) Leave a comment
Sunset Photo Essay (October 8, 2016) — Images by kenne
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Bring Me The Sunset In A Cup
— by Emily Dickinson
Bring me the sunset in a cup,
Reckon the morning’s flagons up
And say how many Dew,
Tell me how far the morning leaps—
Tell me what time the weaver sleeps
Who spun the breadth of blue!
Reckon the morning’s flagons up
And say how many Dew,
Tell me how far the morning leaps—
Tell me what time the weaver sleeps
Who spun the breadth of blue!
Write me how many notes there be
In the new Robin’s ecstasy
Among astonished boughs—
How many trips the Tortoise makes—
How many cups the Bee partakes,
The Debauchee of Dews!
Also, who laid the Rainbow’s piers,
Also, who leads the docile spheres
By withes of supple blue?
Whose fingers string the stalactite—
Who counts the wampum of the night
To see that none is due?
Who built this little Alban House
And shut the windows down so close
My spirit cannot see?
Who’ll let me out some gala day
With implements to fly away,
Passing Pomposity?
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Camphorweed Grunge Art Leave a comment
Camphorweed Grunge Art by kenne
It’s a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.
–Daniel Kahneman
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Sabino Canyon Fall Elementary Field-trips Begin Leave a comment
SCVN Thursday Elementary Program Naturalists — L-R: Debbie Bird, Pat Fox (New Trainee), David Dean, Bob Veranes, Phil Bentley, Maureen Hutter, Jerry Bird, David Engelsberg, Becky Duncan, Nancy Murphy, Jim Burton (New Trainee), Kenne Turner
— Image by kenne
Sabino Canyon Volunteer Naturalists (SCVN) begun their Fall Elementary School Field-trip program this week. A second grade teacher selected the “Web of Life” program for today’s field-trip.
— kenne
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Twisted Wire Landing — Computer Art by kenne
Twisted wire landing
Must have miscalculated
An off course moment.
— kenne
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Red-Veined Darter Dragonfly Leave a comment
Red-Veined Darter Dragonfly — Image by kenne
“It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is
than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
— Carl Sagan
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Migrating Turkey Vultures Leave a comment
Migrating Turkey Vultures — Image by kenne
As turkey vultures migrate south this time of year, many roost overnight near our neighborhood. Each morning they start circling above to catch the current in their journey to Mexico.
On a recent cloudy morning they were literally circling directly above our house, so I was able to capture several against the light-gray sky. The images were basically silhouettes against the sky. I wanted to share them, but not in the moment I had captured. So, with the help of Photoshop I layered four images together, then gave them a partly cloudy, somewhat dramatic background creating the above image that speaks to me. Maybe it will speak to you.
— kenne
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Blue Dasher Dragonfly — Picture As Poetry Leave a comment
Blue Dasher Dragonfly — Image by kenne
Everything that goes into my images is based on the belief,
“as in poetry, so in photography.”
A photographer is like a poet.
— kenne
“A poem will be like a picture,
and let a picture be similar to a poem.”
— Horace
“Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard,
and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen.
These two arts (you may call them both either poetry or painting)
have here interchanged the senses by which they penetrate to the intellect.”
— Leonardo Da Vinci
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Revisiting Arches National Park Landmarks 1 comment
Courthouse Towers, Three Gossips, Sheep Rock, Tower of Babel and The Organ Landscape Landmarks Panorama
Near the Entrance of Arches National Park (June 12, 2014) — Image by kenne
“…only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers.”
— Paul Tillich
