Archive for the ‘Panorama’ Category
A Sabino Canyon Morning — Panorama by kenne
what must it be like
to stand so firm, so sure?
in the desert even the saguaro
hold on as long as they can
twisting their arms in
protest or celebration.
you are like me,
understanding the surprise
of jesus, his rough feet
planted on the water
the water lapping
his toes and holding them.
you are like me, like him
perhaps, certain only that
the surest failure
is the unattempted walk.
— Lucille Clifton
November 30, 2011, and the Pool Is All Ours — HDR Image by kenne
Spending some time at the pool before going to the Lynyrd Skynyrd concert that evening.
Sedona Panorama by kenne
Lost in the beauty of Sedona’s majestic landscapes.
Tucson Basin Panorama — Image by kenne
We plant seeds in the ground
And dreams in the sky,
Hoping that, someday, the roots of one
Will meet the upstretched limbs of the other.
It has not happened yet.
We share the sky, all of us, the whole world:
Together, we are a tribe of eyes that look upward,
Even as we stand on uncertain ground.
The earth beneath us moves, quiet and wild,
Its boundaries shifting, its muscles wavering.
The dream of sky is indifferent to all this,
Impervious to borders, fences, reservations.
The sky is our common home, the place we all live.
There we are in the world together.
The dream of sky requires no passport.
Blue will not be fenced. Blue will not be a crime.
Look up. Stay awhile. Let your breathing slow.
Know that you always have a home here.
Lake Mead at Hoover Dam (11/05/2020) Panorama by kenne
Lake Mead reached its lowest in July 2022. One year later, Mead’s elevation is inching back up. A combination
of historic winter snowpack and new federal agreements to pay cities, farmers, and tribes to conserve water
is expected to continue to raise Mead, according to the most recent federal data.
Coyote Buttes In Vermillion Cliffs National Monument — HDR Panorama by kenne
This remote and unspoiled 280,000-acre monument is a geologic treasure with some of the world’s most spectacular trails and views.
The monument contains many diverse landscapes, including the Paria Plateau, Vermilion Cliffs, Coyote Buttes, and Paria Canyon.
— Source: Bureau of Land Management
HTOWN Wall Art Panorama #4 (December 27, 2022) — Image by kenne
“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
― Banksy
San Pedro Valley As Viewed from the Santa Catalina Mountains — Panorama Image by kenne
the valley below
is a view to be captured
so it can be shared
— kenne
Sunset Over The Tucson Mountains — Image by kenne
I look at a sunset
and begin to wonder
what is the relationship
between the senses
and matters of beauty,
art and taste responding
one’s feelings and emotions?
The quality of being.
— kenne
Black Mountains, Arizona Geological Contrasts — Image by kenne
I was standing on the highest mountain of them all,
and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world.
And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and
I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a
sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit,
and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.
And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops
that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight,
and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter
all children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy.
— Black Elk
Tucson Sunset Clouds — Panorama by kenne
“Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.”
― Rabindranath Tagore
Lower Sabino Canyon Panorama (October 5, 2022) by kenne
We all have a treasure waiting for us
here on earth. Find a place to communicate
with our better angels and we will find it.
— kenne
Catalina Foothills Sunset Panoramas (One a Photomerge of two Images, the Other Using Three Images) by kenne — October 22, 2022
Colors transfigure
Sunset clouds over mountains
Photopic vision.
— kenne
Lower Sabino Canyon Panorama (October 5, 2022) — Photomerge by kenne
I walk alone in the early morning
heading up a canyon trail
toward the mountains; the dust
rises from my steps better defining
the trail for hikers to follow.
The saguaros along the trail
reach the sky from the basin floor
as hikers pass by soon to return
to avoid the midday heat —
what were you expecting?
For the day does not hover,
not even for a moment
as the sun rises overhead,
the scars of my hiking remain
embedded in my thoughts
refusing to grow feeble, just old.
— kenne
Doubtful Canyon Signpost — Panorama by kenne
A lonely sign
on the hill
has no
directions
if it did
we would
be doubtful.
— kenne
