Archive for the ‘Sunset’ Category
Yesterday’s Sunset from Off Our Patio — Image by kenne
Some of the wildfires in the west began with the Bighorn Fire here in the Santa Catalina Mountains back in June.
Since then fires have continued to ravage the west. Sadly, all the climate models have projected data
predicting the conditions for a perfect storm.
Meanwhile, there are currently five storms in the Atlantic. It’s time to
stop climate-denial or conspiracy thinking and believe in science.
Pease, let’s not let politics win out over science.
— kenne
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Colorless Desert Sunset — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Sonoran sunset
A different perspective
Maintains its beauty.
— kenne
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Almost Missed Yesterday’s Sunset — Image by kenne
Apple Fire smoke
Makes for beautiful photos
Shades of red sunset.
— kenne
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Ensenada Bay Sunset (01/07/07) — Photo-Artistry by kenne
The sea,
once it casts its spell,
holds one in its net forever.
— Jacques Cousteau
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Whispering Clouds — Image by kenne
Whispering clouds in
parallel
across the mountains,
listen and
you will hear
night approaching
pulling down
nature’s shade
over the shy
as the mountains
begin to glow
in a dark blue
against
the evening sky.
— kenne
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Katelyn at Sunset (March 2017) — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world’s more full of weeping than you
can understand.
— from The Stolen Child by William Butler Yeats (Fairy and Folktales of the Irish Peasentry 1888)
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A February Sunset (Tucson Arizona) — Image by kenne
Over the mountains
Another sunset goes down
Soon the stars will shine.
— kenne
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Patio Sunset (03/03/20) — Image by kenne
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Silhouette — Granddad and Grandson (Kenne Jaxon) at Sunset
if—
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
— Rudyard Kipling
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Patio Sunset Panorama (Tanuri Ridge) by kenne
Foreplay in the Mountains
Living at the edge of the mountains
Watching the clouds push up the slopes
Tangling with the peeks, leaving behind
The milk of its firm, but gentle strokes
So stimulating is the foreplay
The setting sun directs its light
Reflecting off nature’s dramatic act
Fondling each to a new height
I watch, as a distant voyeur
Yet trying to sneak a feel
In the role of a mountain man
Without going against her will
In a moment, the thrill is gone
With the setting sun’s brightness
The clouds losing its excitement
Hastened by the shadows of darkness
Now alone at the mountain’s edge
I dream of stroking the night’s way
Bringing on the demons of darkness
Desiring only to stimulate the play
— kenne (February 1, 2011)
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Tucson Winter Sunset — Photo-Artistry by kenne
“Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax.”
— Alan Watts
“There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation.
The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.”
— James Baldwin
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Looking South from Tanuri Ridge — Image by kenne
“We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us
and call that handful of sand the world.”
— Robert M. Pirsig
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Winter Solstice Sunset — Photo-Artistry by kenne
“The Winter Solstice is the time of ending and beginning, a powerful time —
a time to contemplate your immortality. A time to forgive, to be forgiven,
and to make a fresh start. A time to awaken.”
— Frederick Lenz
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Another Great Tucson Sunset (December 12, 2019) — Images by kenne
HAPPINESS
Summer late evening
my friend the sunset
to surprise me
took the most interesting streets
Late he was
Longer than ever before
— Mary Ruefle
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Catalina Foothills Sunset — Image by kenne
