

The Court of the Patriarchs in Zion National Park — Image by kenne
The Court of the Patriarchs in Zion National Park — Image by kenne
Hwy 9 is the major road providing access to Zion National Park. — Image by kenne
The Return: Orihuela, 1965
You come over a slight rise
in the narrow, winding road
and the white village broods
in the valley below. A breeze
silvers the cold leaves
of the olives, just as you knew
it would or as you saw
it in dreams. How many days
have you waited for this day?
Soon you must face a son grown
to manhood, a wife to old age,
the tiny sealed house of memory.
A lone crow drops into the sun,
the fields whisper their courage.
— Philip Levine
Photo-Project In Zion National Park — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Zion National Park (June 10, 2014) — Image by kenne
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Mexican Yellow and American Snout Butterflies — Images by kenne
Zion National Park — Image by kenne
Zion Canyon Panorama — B&W Image by kenne
Mighty and dreadful are your tall columns here,
(through soul and love put you in deep shade)
for you outnumber man and outscore even life itself,
and you are roughly tied with God and, strangely, eyes.
— from Unholy Sonnet # 1 by Billy Collins
Zion Digital Art by kenne
— kenne
Zion National Park, Temples, and Towers of the Virgin Panorama (June 10, 2014) — Image by kenne
— kenne
Our road trip in late April took use through Zion National Park. This was the fourth time in the park, however, unlike the others, we didn’t spend time in the park. The snapshots were acquired by stopping along the route through the park. (Click or touch, depending on your device, to see the images in a slideshow format.)
Images by kenne
– Paul Strand
Zion National Park — Image by kenne
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— from “Calm Captivating (Zion) Canyon” by Reuben Wadsworth
— Theodore Roosevelt
Zion National Park Snapshots
(Click on any of the tiled images for a larger view in a slideshow format.)
Images by kenne
— Theodore Roosevelt
Zion-Mount Carmel Highway Panorama (Zion National Park, September 15, 2016) — Image by kenne
— Robert M. Pirsig
Zion Lodge Panorama In Zion Canyon, Zion National Park (September 14, 2016) — Images by kenne
My Zion
Stains across an aerie altar, white-streaked red
suspended above my reach, but not my sight.
Perhaps ancient titans sacrificed, honored, bled
now revealed in golden strains of morning light.
My Zion, my refuge
from all it is not.
Oh Zion, my haven
where solace was sought.
Did angels take wing from that lofty perch?
Does the stone truly weep for ages past?
When bygone men for food here did search
in the giant’s throne shadow cast.
This Zion, my friend
please show me how
Oh Zion, my Zion
if only time would allow.
Steps upon crimson sand and stone
as wind, water, eons carve and hew,
I realize my soul was still unknown.
for what was old is now new.
— Terry Tyson
Zion National Park, View North from Outside the Zion Human History Museum (September 14, 2016) — Image by kenne
Temples and Towers of the Virgin in Zion National Park (September 14, 2016) — Morning Panorama by kenne