Wildflowers on King Canyon Trail — Images by kenne
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Lupine Wildflower Leave a comment
Lupine Wildflower — Image by kenne
Lupine Wildflower
Claimed by Texas as its own,
“Texas bluebonnet.”
Can’t own wildflowers
Nature doesn’t have borders.
— kenne
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Arizona State Route 83 Vista in Southern Arizona — Image by kenne
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Southern Arizona Fence Line 1 comment
Southern Arizona Fence Line — Photo-Artistic by kenne
I would like to write a poem about the world
that has in it, nothing fancy
Like our travels, our workdays
burned upon the world.
And forgetting everything I will leap to name it
as though for the first time
Turning always in my mind toward you,
your slopes, folds, gentle openings.
As a poem or a prayer, can also make
luminous any dark place on earth.
Maybe we’re necessary to each other,
and this vacant place has need of us both.
Calling us back to why, how and whence
such beauty and what the meaning.
To its joy we come together–the seer
and the seen, the eater and the eaten,
the lover and the loved.
— Mary Oliver & Wendell Berry – A Found Poem
(Source: Simply Blessed)
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Tumacácori National Historical Park 1 comment
Tumacácori National Historical Park — Images by kenne (Click On Any Image To See Slide Show.)
“Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal,
for the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone,
and yet it exists forever….”
– Alan Watts
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Homeless 4 comments
Hut In Southern Arizona — Image by kenne
Homeless;
– Down by the muddy Mississippi
Skinny as a rail,
Sleeping under the old Eads bridge
Feeling low, dirty, and frail –
Homeless;
– With less than two coins
In both pockets,
Empty eyes
Look through sunken sockets –
Homeless;
– So many people walk right on by
I wonder how many care,
They all keep moving
Even though they stare –
Homeless;
– Lost a job
Lost a home,
Lost a family
Lost all hope –
Homeless;
– Where will I go from here
What should I do,
I’m so thankful when the weather’s fair
And the skies are blue –
Homeless;
– Don’t know the day nor season
And, yea, it sure gets cold at night,
I’ve got an old sleeping bag
I’ll be alright –
Homeless;
– There’s so many of us out here
Without a home,
Even so
I feel so very alone –
Homeless;
– It’s a tough situation
Not pretty, just true,
And at any time
It could happen to you –
Homeless;
– Hey buddy…
Could you spare a dime,
And say a prayer for us
… sometime –
– I’m just homeless, not less human…
— Smoky Hoss
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Little Green Bird Leave a comment
Green Heron — Image by kenne
A little green bird
Standing near the water’s edge
Don’t fly away yet.
— kenne
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Fall Landscape Leave a comment
Fall Landscape — Photo-Artistry by kenne
“It is precisely because we resist
the darkness in ourselves
that we miss the depths
of the loveliness, beauty,
brilliance, creativity, and joy
that lie at our core.”
— Thomas Moore
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Cattle In The Dusty West — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Once beautiful desert grassland,
Now destroyed by overgrazing
On land unable to sustain
The native desert environment
Draining the groundwater levels in a
World of “pay me now, or pay me later.”
— kenne
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American Snout Butterfly — Image by kenne
For the poets have seen the truth that life, change, movement, and
insecurity are so many names for the same thing. Here, if anyway,
truth is beauty, for movement and rhythm are of the essence of all things loveable.
— Alan W. Watts
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Tumacácori Leave a comment
Tumacácori (September 27, 2019)– Image by kenne
“As Jesuit Eusebio Francisco Kino and his party approached the O’odham (or Pima) settlement of Tumacácori in January 1691, they rode the wave of a century of expansion northward along New Spain’s west coast corridor. The Jesuits had performed tens of thousands of baptisms and also become the region’s most powerful social and economic force. But the tide carried them no farther north than the Pimería Alta, home of the upper Piman Indians.” — Read more . . .
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Panorama of the Santa Catalina Mountains from the Sweetwater Trail in the Tucson Mountains (March 15, 2019)
— Images by kenne
SCVN members and guests hiked the Sweetwater Trail
Friday, March 15, 2019, on a beautiful spring day.
As has been the case for a couple of weeks,
wildflowers are blooming everywhere
with a background of wispy white clouds
on a canvas of blue.
— kenne
Sweetwater Trail
Edie identifying plant
Saguaro Cactus
Wildflowers
Poppies and Lupines
Wildflowers
Bluedicks
Lupines
Rock Formation On the Trail
Tosh Doing Her Thing
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Scorpionweeds
Wash Across the Sweetwater Trail
Sweetwater Trail
Saguaro Cactus
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Cattle Watering Hole In Southern Arizona — Pay Me Now, Or Pay Me Later Leave a comment
Cattle Watering Hole In Southern Arizona — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Once beautiful desert grassland,
Now destroyed by cattle raising
On land unable to sustain
The native desert environment
Draining the groundwater levels in a
World of “pay me now, or pay me later.”
— kenne
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White Rose Shades A Tear Before #MeToo Came To Be Leave a comment
White Rose Shades A Tear Before #MeToo Came To Be — Image by kenne
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Understanding Global Warming for Nonbelievers 5 comments
Image by kenne
Insolation Controls in the Age of Anthropocene
(Understanding Global Warming for Nonbelievers)
anthropocene
newly coined
unknown to
joe the Plumber
a new human
condition
argued as
invalid
only to be
based
on the invalid
alignment of
insolations
maxima and minima
questioning the new
condition
of our condition
— kenne
