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Court Of The Patriarchs   Leave a comment

Court of the Patriarchs in Zion National Park — Image by kenne

Hymn at Zion’s Court

The cliffs rise like apostles,
robes cut by sun, wind, and rain.

Morning spills down their shoulders,
naming each in the hush of dawn—

Abraham, Isaac, Jacob—
leaning into eternity.

Below, the Virgin River hums,
riffing her own tune

as the sun anoints each peak
with a whisper that says,

“Don’t rush the holy, man—
it’s already here.”

And you can stand there
trying to find your rhythm

thinking maybe this is church,
and the sermon

is silance
with a backbeat.

On This Labor Day   1 comment

Zion National Park — Image by kenne

Labor Day Gratitude

On this Labor Day,
we pause in quiet thanks for
long years of labor.

The work was steady,
sometimes hard yet always true,
carrying us on.

Now the gift is ours:
wandering untraveled roads,
rest beneath new skies.

Labor gave us this—
the grace of choice, and the time
to live wide and free.

 

 

Zion National Park Towering Cliffs   Leave a comment

Zion National Park Towering Cliffs — Image by kenne

The Real Jurassic Park

can be found in the
deposition and preservation

of Navajo Sandstone. Dating
back to the Early Jurassic

situated on one continent
was a vast sand sea. Extreme

winds created towering dunes
of pure quartz sand

dwarfing modern Sahara. Migrating
avalanches over one another

laminating the dune surface
thus becoming more stable.

Changing over time
by climatic cycles

locking stories of time into
Navajo Sandstone and

forming the towering
Zion National Park cliffs.

— kenne

Zion National Park, July 2023   3 comments

Jill, James, Hugh, Joy, and I drove seven hours from southern Califonia to Springdale, Utah, staying
at the Bubbleberry Inn outside of Zion National Park. Zion is one of our favorite national parks;
having been there several times now.

(Click on any of the tiled images to see them in a larger slideshow format.)

Cooling Off After A Day In Zion   Leave a comment

Poolside, in the shade, after spending July 4th in Zion National Park.

July 4th, 2023 In Zion National Park   Leave a comment

Flag In Front of Zion Canyon Ledge (Zion National Park), July 4, 2023 — Image by kenne

Zion National Park — Color and B&W Images   Leave a comment

The Court of the Patriarchs in Zion National Park — Image by kenne

You come over a slight rise . . .   Leave a comment

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   1 comment

Zion National Park (June 10, 2014) — Image by kenne

A park not to love
Dramatic rock formations
Ancient rocks of art.

Ansel Adams views
At the push of a button
We are the keepers.

— kenne

Mexican Yellow and American Snout Butterflies   4 comments

Mexican Yellow and American Snout Butterflies — Images by kenne

Butterflies Everywhere

Zion Nation Park   1 comment

Zion National Park — Image by kenne

“Where words end —Zion begins”

 

Zion Canyon Panorama   Leave a comment

Canyon Views Panorama (1 of 1)-B&W-72

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   Leave a comment

Zion Snapshots-12 art_2 blogZion Digital Art by kenne

What am I doing?
I am not the one to ask —
Just doing, you know.

— kenne

Nature’s Stairway to Heaven   3 comments

September 2016 Trip d800-2115-Pano blogZion National Park, Temples, and Towers of the Virgin Panorama (June 10, 2014) — Image by kenne

Temples and towers
Nature’s stairway to heaven
With white angel wings.

In this promised land
A desert sanctuary —
Music of waters.

Navajo sandstone
Majestic cliffs of color
Carved by rain fingers.

— kenne

Zion Nation Park Snapshots II   2 comments

Zion National Park--2 blogOur 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

“Your photography is a record of your living – for anyone who really sees. You may see and be affected by other people’s ways, you may even use them to find your own, but you will have eventually to free yourself of them. That is what Nietzche meant when he said, ‘I have just read Schopenhauer, now I have to get rid of him.’ He knew how insidious other people’s ways could be, particularly those which have the forcefulness of profound experience, if you let them get between you and your own personal vision.”

– Paul Strand