Sabino Creek — Image by kenne
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Sabino Creek Painting 1 comment
Male Cardinal With A Berry Leave a comment
Male Cardinal With A Berry (Sabino Canyon) — Image by kenne
The summer goes away With the white leaf of a dusty day;
With the yellow leaf of beech And the red leaf of the maple;
The summer has no mind to stay
With the shrunk brown leaf of the apple,
The shrivelled hang-stone on the peach.
But it matter little how branches bleach,
The cardinal bird remains.
— from The Cardinal Bird by Orrick Johns
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SCVN Lizard Walk 2 comments
Saturday Morning Lizard Walk — Image by kenne
Greater Earless Lizard — Image by kenne
Saturday Morning Lizard Walk — Video by kenne
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SCVN Lizard Walk Guides For The Last Walk Of The Year Leave a comment
Sabino Canyon Volunteer Naturalists Bill Kaufman and Mark Hengesbaugh are Guiding the last Lizard Walk of the Year.
— Image by kenne
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Sabina Creek Above The Dam 4 comments
Sabina Creek Above The Dam — Image by kenne
Water celebrates, yielding continually
sheeted and fast in its overfall
slips down the rock, evades the pillars
building its colonnades, repairs
in stream and standing wave
retains its seaward green
broken by obstacle rock; falling, the water sheet
spouts, and the mind dances, excess of white.
The white brilliant function of the land’s disease.
— from The Book of the Dead: The Dam by Muriel Rukeyser
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Wild Cotton Blossom Grunge Art 2 comments
Wild Cotton Blossom — Grunge Art by kenne
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny,
we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom.
It happens in its own time.
— Denis Waitley
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Early Morning In The Cayon 1 comment
Early Morning In Sabino Canyon — Image by kenne
No one can say for certain where the name “Sabino” came from.
Perhaps the canyon was named for Sabino Otero, a rancher with land
5 miles south of the canyon in the late 1800s.
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Shining Through The Shadows 6 comments
Shining Through The Shadows — Image by kenne
weeds grow
where water
no longer flows
gently over
the canyon spillway…
marsh
of cracked soil
a dragonfly
passes over
remembering
what was
desert natal waters…
leaving behind
dark shadows
moved by
hot desert winds…
— kenne
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Wild Cotton Blossom 2 comments
Wild Cotton Blossom — Image by kenne
“I dream of a quiet man who explains nothing and defends nothing,
but only knows where the rarest wildflowers are blooming,
and who goes, and finds that he is smiling not by his own will.”
— Wendell Berry
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Black Saddlebags Glider 1 comment
Black Saddlebags Glider — Image by kenne
“Like a dragonfly, may you embrace change with grace and find beauty in every stage of your journey.”
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A Sabino Canyon Morning 1 comment
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
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Two Birds 1 comment
Two Birds by kenne
“Two birds never sing the same song”
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End Of The Trail On Blackett’s Ridge Leave a comment
Blackett’s Ridge Photo-artistry be kenne
“The climb speaks to our character, but the view, I think, to our souls.”
– Lori Lansens
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Sonoran Desert Tortoise 2 comments
Sonoran Desert Tortoise Spotted On The SCVN Lizard Walk (August 3, 2024) — Images by kenne
The Sonoran Desert tortoise, or Morafka’s desert tortoise, is a species of terrestrial chelonian
reptile of the family Testudinidae native to the Sonoran Desert.
Source: Wikipedia
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Roseate Skimmer Dragonfly 3 comments
Roseate Skimmer Dragonfly — Image by kenne
