Fiddleneck Wildflowers — Image by kenne
always take the time
when you are walking outdoors
to look more closely
nature surprises
keep eyes wide open
— kenne
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Spread Your Wings 1 comment
Spread Your Wings (Two-tailed Swallowtail) — image by kenne
resting on a leaf
she spreads her beautiful wings
getting attention
— kenne
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Forest Floor In the West — Abstract Art by kenne
Almost 100 fires and complexes are burning over one million acres across the United States. Thousands of wildland firefighters
and support personnel are assigned to incidents. To date, 34,411 wildfires have burned 2,255,218 million acres.
Now more than ever, we need your help to prevent wildfires. When you work and play in our precious public forests,
parks and rangelands, it is critical for you to be fire safe. Have spark arresters on equipment and vehicles like chain saws,
motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles. Exhaust systems on any vehicle can easily ignite vegetation, so drive and park in
designated areas keeping off and away from dry grass and brush. Taking these simple steps can keep our natural resources
from going up in smoke. — National Interagency Fire Center
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I Am The Only One That Is Invisible Leave a comment
What is he thinking? “If thinking is what distinguishes man’s nature, then surely the essence of this nature, namely the nature of thinking, can be seen only by looking away from thinking.” — kenne
Tom Turner — Image by kenne
The poem “Invisible Man” by Pablo Neruda gets inside me, stirring my very being, mixing the past, present, and images of the future. The poem has short lines making it seem longer than it is. Even so, I’m sharing some of Neruda’s powerful lines, which I have read, reread contemplating thoughts of my brother, Tom, and existential invisibility.
“they fire against the people,
which is to say,
against poetry,
but my brother
the poet
was in love,
or was suffering
because all his emotion
is for the sea,
he loves remote ports
for their names,
and he writes about oceans
he doesn’t know,
when life is as full
as an ear of corn with grain
he passes by, never knowing
how to harvest it,
he rides the waves
without ever touching land,
and, occasionally,
he is profoundly moved
and melancholy,
he is too big
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Ready for Takeoff (Cooper’s Hawk)– Image by kenne
ready for takeoff
flying comes naturally
not a leap of faith
— kenne
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Wildflowers (July 30, 2014)– Grunge Art Leave a comment
Wildflowers (July 30, 2014) — Grunge Art by kenne
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When I Grow Up, I Want To Be As Good As Ned! Leave a comment
It was eleven years ago that I first went on a nature walk with SCVN Ned Harris. Ned was to become my mentor as I was to start my SCVN training in the fall. You can see Ned’s photos on Flickr. — kenne
Ned Harris is mySabino CanyonVolunteer Naturalist (SCVN) mentor. He is also a super photographer. So, one might ask, why am I posting one of my photos with one of his photos? Yes, it does seem crazy! But, there is a “method to my madness.”
First, I want to share an example Ned’s photo skills and urge you to visit his Flickr site (Ned Harris’ Photostream) to see more of theGray Hawkpictured below and many other excellent raptors photos — he’s one of the best!
Second, as Ned knows, wildlife photography is all about being at the right place at the right time, and that’s not all luck. You have to help make things happen.
Yesterday we both were out trying to be in the “right place at the right time” — I in Sabino Canyon, Ned inAravaipa Canyon. As I walked in…
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Three Marine Blue Butterfies On a Green-headed Coneflower (White Mountains) — Image by kenne
three is not a crowd
whole field of the present view
things which are before
— kenne
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Saguaro Sunrise — Photo-Artistry by kenne
saguaro sunrise
just above the canyon ridge
shadows in the dark
— kenne
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The Lone Hiker — Photo-Artistry by kenne
now in his eighties
living moment by moment
carries a message
time past time present
both in time future
— kenne
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The Desert New Normal — Photo-Artistry by kenne
desert’s new normal
higher hot and dry levers
get use to it now
— kenne
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Cartoon du jour — Western Drought Leave a comment
Western Drought — Monte Wolverton politicalcartoons.com
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Aphrodite Fritillary Butterfly on a Green-headed Coneflower (White Mountains, Arizona) — Image by kenne
You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
— Ansel Adams
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Macromeria Wildflowers — Image by kenne
rain on the mountain
brings forth many wildflowers
spring blooms in July
— kenne
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Scorpionweed — Photo-Artistry by kenne
“The world isn’t just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no?
And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no?
Doesn’t that make life a story?”
― from Life of Pi by
