Images Taken Yesterday Morning by kenne (common emigrant and American snout butteries)
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A Butterfly Morning — A Photo Essay 3 comments
Butterflies On Blooming Mexican Bird of Paradise — A Photo Essay 7 comments
Variegated Fritillary On Mexican Bird of Paradise
Variegated Fritillary On Mexican Bird of Paradise
Fiery Skipper & Cloudless Giant Sulfur On Mexican Bird of Paradise
Variegated Fritillary On Mexican Bird of Paradise
Cloudless Giant Sulfur On Mexican Bird of Paradise
Cloudless Giant Sulfur On Mexican Bird of Paradise
Fiery Skipper On Mexican Bird of Paradise — Images by kenne
I’ve watched you now a full half-hour;
Self-poised upon that yellow flower
And, little Butterfly! Indeed
I know not if you sleep or feed.
How motionless! – not frozen seas
More motionless! and then
What joy awaits you, when the breeze
Hath found you out among the trees,
And calls you forth again!
~William Wordsworth, “To a Butterfly”
Joy’s Birthday Celabration On Galveston Island — A Photo Essay 4 comments
Joy, Hugh, and Jill walking over the dunes to the beach.
Chase
Joy, Hugh, Jill, James, Abbie, and Jerri
Joy and Jill
James and Chase
Blue Crab
Audrey, Abbie, and James Building Sand Castles. Our tent in the background.
James, Audrey, Abbie, and Jill.
Jason, Chase, and Hannah burying Abbie, James, and Audrey.
Joy, Abbie, and Audrey
James flying a kite on the beach.
Click here to see other photos taken on Galveston Island. Flickr Album
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Vineyard Hacienda Leave a comment
Vineyard Hacienda in Spring Valley, California — Images by kenne
It’s not uncommon for people in Tucson to get away from the heat by either going to the White Mountains, Flagstaff or the San Diego area. The last couple of years we have gone to San Diego.
On our previous getaways, we stayed downtown, near Balboa Park, or at Pala Casino. Wanting to try something different, Joy started searching travel sites and learned about Vineyard Hacienda. It looked like a really cool place and had a lot of good reviews, so she scheduled a three-night stay.
When we left the forecast for Tucson was 106. When we arrived in Spring Valley the San Diego temperature was 105. So much for trying to escape the heat.
Vineyard Hacienda is a beautiful place, tucked away from a lot of hassle of metropolitan San Diego. Having only six rooms, the Hacienda provides the best of a B&B and a hotel. However, upon arriving, we learned the Vineyard Hacienda doesn’t have AC, a nice fan but no AC.
The temperatures in San Diego tend to be moderate, which is one of the reasons why it’s a great travel destination. Having moderate temperatures in the summer is also why some authentic places may not have air conditioning. Under normal circumstances, this would be fine, but not during record-setting summer temperatures.
We changed into our bathing suits and headed for the pool for a couple hours before going out to dinner at a local beer and burger place — great food.
The next morning we learned that there was no water. Overnight the pump broke down. This was not good, especially since the forecast was for another day in the 100’s and no one seemed to know when the water would come back on.
So, with no water and AC, we headed for the Coronado Island beach, followed by lunch in the Gaslamp Quarter of San Diego. Since it was still too hot to walk around the Quarter, we decided to head back to the Hacienda and spend the rest of the day by the pool.
As we drove back, we decided, water or no water we were going to check out the following morning, cutting our trip short by a day. Late in a day of another 105+ temperatures, the water was back on.
— kenne
No Words Sunday — Demonstrators Say It All In Tucson 2 comments
Demonstrators In Armory Park, Tucson (June 30, 2018) — Images by kenne
Our Poinsettia Six Months Out 3 comments
Our Poinsettia Six Months Out (May 24, 2018) — Image by kenne
We purchased this poinsettia around Thanksgiving last year, then spent Christmas in Houston (December 21-29). Before leaving we watered all our indoor plants. When we returned on the 29th, the poinsettia looked better than ever. It continues to be the centerpiece on the dining room table.
We have never had a poinsettia last this long, now we are hoping it will be around for the 2018 Holidays.
Holidays year round
Poinsettia keeps running
More bang for the buck.
— kenne
Remembering Turner On His 76th 6 comments
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Lummi & MCLAC
Thomas Robert Turner, May 23, 1942 – November 13, 2014
I love you, Bobby!
And death shall have no dominion.
Dead man naked they shall be one
With the man in the wind and the west moon;
When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,
They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
Though they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.
And death shall have no dominion.
Under the windings of the sea
They lying long shall not die windily;
Twisting on racks when sinews give way,
Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break;
Faith in their hands shall snap in two,
And the unicorn evils run them through;
Split all ends up they shan’t crack;
And death shall have no dominion.
And death shall have no dominion.
No more may gulls cry at their ears
Or waves break loud on the seashores;
Where blew a flower may a flower no more
Lift its head to the blows of the rain;
Though they be mad and dead as nails,
Heads of the characters hammer through daisies;
Break in the sun till the sun breaks down,
And death shall have no dominion.
— Dylan Thomas
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Richard Burton Reading, And Death Shall Have No Dominion
