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Willow Springs Ranch   2 comments


Willow Springs Ranch — Photo-artistry by kenne

“Cowboy Rodeo was a very simple man. He liked his life simple. He liked his ranch full of animals, he liked the breeze across the plains, and he liked when the sun rose and set. He liked strong, cold whiskey and the stars at night.

Cowboy Rodeo realized at that moment he also really, really liked corsets and black pencil skirts that showed off the curve of the hip.”

— Shannon Noelle Long

Bottle-brush Blossom   Leave a comment

Bottle-brush Blossom — Photo-artistry by kenne

Yellow-billed Teal   Leave a comment

Yellow-billed Teals On A Pond (Tucson, Arizona) — Image by kenne

“When I see a bird that walks like a duck,
and swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck,
I call that bird a duck.”

— James Whitcomb Riley

Snow On Mt. Lemmon   4 comments

Snow On Mt. Lemmon — Image by kenne

“Winter, a lingering season,
is a time to gather golden moments,
embark upon a sentimental journey,
and enjoy every idle hour.”

Time Moves On   2 comments

Kenne George Turner

A human being is here
and then disappears
in a wind
that vanishes
inwards
and meets the rock’s movements
and becomes meaning
in always new unity
of what is
and what is not
in a silence
where wind
becomes wind
where meaning
becomes meaning
in lost movement
of everything that has been
and at once is
from an origin
where the sound carried the meaning
before the word divided itself
and since then never left us
But it is
in all past and it is in all future
and it is
in something
that doesn’t exist
in its vanishing border
between what has been
and what shall come
It is infinite and without distance
in the same movement
It clears up
and disappears
and remains
while it disappears

— from A Human Being Is Here by Jon Fosse

Richardson’s Geranium Abstract   Leave a comment

Richardson’s Geranium Abstract — Image by kenne

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images.
Abstract art will have been good for one thing:
to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

— Salvador Dali

Abstract Art   Leave a comment

Abstract Art by kenne

There is no abstract art.

You must always start with something.

Afterward, you can remove all traces of reality.

— Pablo Picasso

Old People   3 comments

Say Hello In There — John Prine

Red-tailed Hawk   Leave a comment

Red-tailed Hawk Over Tucson — Image by kenne

Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk’s flight on the empty sky.

— Ursula K. Le Guin
 
 

Raven In Flight   2 comments

Raven in Flight — Image by kenne

“Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

My Love Walks In Beauty   Leave a comment

Photo-artistry by kenne

She Walks In Beauty

She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellow’d to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impair’d the nameless
 grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o’er her face;

Where thoughts serenely sweet express,
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.

And on that cheek, and o’er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!

— Lord Byron

A Valentine’s Boutique For My Love   4 comments

A Valentine’s Boutique For My Love — Photo-artistry by kenne

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

— Vincent van Gogh

Costa’s Hummingbird — Another View   Leave a comment

Costa’s Hummingbird — Another View — Image by kenne

Sabino Canyon Morning   1 comment

Sabino Canyon Morning — Image by kenne

“What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.”

— Edward Abbey

Male Phainopepla In Sabino Canyon   Leave a comment

Male Phainopepla In Sabino Canyon — Image by kenne

Far fowls have fair feathers.

— A Proverb