Carpenter Bee On Fleabane Wildflower — Image by kenne
There’s a lot to notice
on the morning walks
in the spring. But what
strikes me in a special way
are all the flowers —
a reason to take my camera.
— kenne
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Carpenter Bee On Fleabane Wildflower 1 comment
Sunset Photo 2 comments
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Bottlebrush Tree Blossom Leave a comment
Bottlebrush Tree Blossom — Image by kenne
What is not to like
Red with a background of blue
With a dash of green.
— kenne
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Western Honey Bee On Chicory Leave a comment
Western Honey Bee On Chicory Wildflower — Image by kenne
Western honey bee
On chicory wildflower
Spring is everywhere.
— kenne
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Bee On Monument Plant Blossom 2 comments
Bee On Monument Plant Blossom — Image by kenne
If ever there were a spring day so perfect,
so uplifted by a warm intermittent breeze
that it made you want to throw
open all the windows in the house
and unlatch the door to the canary’s cage,
indeed, rip the little door from its jamb
— from Today by Billy Collins
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Ghost Of Yesteryears 2 comments
Ghost Of Yesteryears — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Ghosts of yesteryears
Follow me around each day
Soothing my being.
— kenne
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Another Mother’s Day 5 comments
Another Mother’s Day and Again I Post This Poem
HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!
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Street Fair Art — Photo-Artistry By kenne
I use Photoshop
To transform images to art
Pleasing to the eye.
— kenne
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Cactus Blossoms Are Everywhere This Spring 1 comment
Cactus Blossoms Are Everywhere This Spring — Images by kenne
Prickly pear cactus
Yellow, the color of spring
Lights up the desert.
— kenne
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Living In The Desert 3 comments
Blooming Over Night — Image by kenne
I’ve lived in the desert —
now many springs
surrounded by beauty
that comes and goes
utterly without regret
each season I capture
moments of immortal
medicine still provides
a sharp and solid mine.
— kenne
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Saguaro National Park-East Leave a comment
Saguaro National Park-East — Image by kenne
Many hiking trails
Through the saguaro forest
In this desert park.
— kenne
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Among The Top 15 In The Houston Area Leave a comment
The Houston Chronicle recognized outstanding nurses during a luncheon on May 2, 2023. Each year, the Houston Chronicle
honors the top nurses across Greater Houston during their Salute to Nurses event. In 2023, 200 recipients were selected through a public nomination — included are seven UT Physicians employees. Kenne was recognized as one of the Top 15 this year.
Riprap
Lay down these words
Before your mind like rocks.
placed solid, by hands
In choice of place, set
Before the body of the mind
in space and time:
Solidity of bark, leaf, or wall
riprap of things:
Cobble of milky way,
straying planets,
These poems, people,
lost ponies with
Dragging saddles—
and rocky sure-foot trails.
The worlds like an endless
four-dimensional
Game of Go.
ants and pebbles
In the thin loam, each rock a word
a creek-washed stone
Granite: ingrained
with torment of fire and weight
Crystal and sediment linked hot
all change, in thoughts,
As well as things.
— Gary Snyder
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Spring Time In The Desert 2 comments
Ocotillos In Bloom — HDR Image by kenne
Red torches light up
The desert in the springtime
Many shades of red.
— kenne
House Finch On Ocotillo — Image by kenne
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Cut Flowers Painting 3 comments
Cut Flowers Painting — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Though the cut flowers wilt
and the leaves wither, blanching
in the vase for days, still
they remind me of fields, the loveliness
of fading part by part, so many
changes, not sudden the cutting
down, not brutal but a way of
undoing. A fulfillment.
Merciful, you could say,
the cutting down and then
the slow undoing, which returns
forms to their beginning
as they go, petal by petal, and leaf
curling, how one shrivels
and falls.
— From Cut Flowers by Cynthia Huntington
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Hiking the Italian Springs Trail (April, 2012) — Image by kenne
bushed
a trail cursed
and charmed
taking a breather
in solitude
and shade
alligator junipers
mountain pines
overlooking a
big sky pass
scrambling time
and seasons
whence we came
where we went
Redington road
to the plateau
beneath Mica
mountain summit
till you get there yourself
it remains our paradise
sharing our wanderlust
in this virtual world
— kenne
(This hike was one of many I did with my old hiking buddy, Tom Markey, who passed awayAugust 17, 2022.)
Becoming is Superior to Being 