Archive for the ‘Arizona’ Tag
Butterfly on Rainbow Flowers — Computer Art by kenne
”The genuine artist is never
‘true to life.’
He sees what is real,
but not as we are normally aware of it.
We do not go storming through life like
actors in a play.
Art is never real life.”
— Wallace Stevens from “On Poetic Truth,”
Blue Flax Wildflower — Image by kenne
Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the flowers gone?
Young girls have picked them everyone
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?
— from “Where Have All The Flowers Gone” by Pete Seeger
We had the experience but missed the meaning
And approach to the meaning restores the experience
in a different form, beyond any meaning
— T. S. Eliot
Eastern Collard Lizard — Computer art by kenne
Universal patterns inform creative symbols
and the symbolizing mind of the creator.
The ancient Greeks called such patterns archetypes.
Archetypes or not, history is always there,
but ahead of it there is a future
not determined by anyone or anything,
but contingent on the products of our creation.
It is we who make the future,
and our imagination of the future
affects who we are and what we do now.
— Frank Barron
The Woods Near Aspen Draw On Mt. Lemmon In The Santa Catalina Mountains — Image by kenne
The higher elevations of the Santa Catalina Mountains provide plenty of fall colors from the variety of vegetation — bedstraw, bigtooth maple, cliffbush, corkbark fir, Douglas-fir, Gambel oak,mountain parsley, mountain snowberry, New Mexico locust, New Mexico raspberry, quaking aspen, Rocky Mountain maple, silverleaf oak,southwestern white pine and white fir.
— kenne
“Instead of just recording reality,
photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us,
thereby changing the very idea of reality, and of realism.”
— Susan Sontag
Northern Cloudywing Butterfly — Image by kenne
We are drowning in information,
while starving for wisdom.
The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers,
people able to put together the right information at the right time,
think critically about it,
and make important choices wisely.
— E. O. Wilson
“Having A Grunge Art Morning” (Sunday, November 1, 2015) — Computer Art by kenne
Computer Art by kenne
Three of us to march abreast
Down the hills of morrow!
With a clean heart and a few
Friends to clench the spirit to!—
Leave the gods to rule the rest,
And good-by, sorrow!
— from “Three of a Kind” by Richard Hovey
Grunge Art Desert Landscape — Image by kenne
“Beyond the wall of the unreal city … there is another world waiting for you. It is the old true world of the deserts, the mountains, the forests, the islands, the shores, the open plains. Go there. Be there. Walk gently and quietly deep within it. And then —
May your trails be dim, lonesome, stony, narrow, winding and only slightly uphill. May the wind bring rain for the slickrock potholes fourteen miles on the other side of yonder blue ridge. May God’s dog serenade your campfire, may the rattlesnake and the screech owl amuse your reverie, may the Great Sun dazzle your eyes by day and the Great Bear watch over you by night.”
― Edward Abbey
First posted November, 2011
Image by kenne
cold is the sky
among close friends
inspire with awe
yet cast in doubt
at the new do
looks like a crown
tower of strength
high in the sky
a crest of thorns
part of a hat
— kenne
Greater Roadrunner In A Mesquite Tree
Greater Roadrunner In A Mesquite Tree
Greater Roadrunner at the End of Life — Images by kenne
There is no such thing as death.
In nature nothing dies.
From each sad remnant of decay,
some forms of life arise
so shall his life be taken away
before he knoweth that he hath it.
–Charles Mackay
After spending most of the summer and early autumn at higher elevations in the Santa Catalina Mountains, this past Friday SCVN led their first Friday hike in Sabino Canyon and were welcomed with beautiful fall weather. The hike was to have been to Seven Falls, but because of high waters, the Phoneline Trail became the hike of choice.
View Up Into Sabino Canyon
Hikers On Phoneline Trail
Coming Upon Another Group of Hikers
Phoneline Trail
Phone Line Trail
A Rest Stop
Low Water Crossing
Low Water Crossing
View Toward the Tucson Basin
Phil Bentley Playing His Harp
Hiking The Phoneline Trail (October 23, 2015) — Images by kenne
(Click on any image to see larger view in a larger view in a slideshow format.)
“A Zen Moment” — Computer Painting by kenne
Focusing
on the scene
I close my eyes
to what was there
now captured
in my mind’s eye
painting it with
my imagination —
taking a new course.
— kenne
“Succulents Afire” — Abstract Art by kenne
“Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.”
— Philip Roth
Prickly Pear — Image by kenne
This unusual growth on a prickly pear pad caught our attention while hiking in Sabino Canyon yesterday.
I tried researching it online and was not able determine the nature of this growth. Need to seek out a botanist for an explanation.
kenne
Tram Road In Sabino Canyon — Panorama by kenne
View from Phoneline Trail in Sabino Canyon looking toward the Visitor Center and Tucson.
Blue Flax Wildflower — Image by kenne
Eastern Collard Lizard — Computer art by kenne
The Woods Near Aspen Draw On Mt. Lemmon In The Santa Catalina Mountains — Image by kenne
“Having A Grunge Art Morning” (Sunday, November 1, 2015) — Computer Art by kenne
Computer Art by kenne
Grunge Art Desert Landscape — Image by kenne
“A Zen Moment” — Computer Painting by kenne
“Succulents Afire” — Abstract Art by kenne
Prickly Pear — Image by kenne
Tram Road In Sabino Canyon — Panorama by kenne
