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Butterfly Art 2 comments
Butterfly Art — Image by kenne
Dancing through the air
I love watching butterflies
Land on wildflowers.
— kenne
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Hiking Green Mountain Trail To Guthrie Peak 3 comments
A fun hike with beautiful views north and south of the Santa Catalina Mountains can be experienced by hiking the Green Mountain trail out of the General Hitchcock campgrounds to the Guthrie Peak trail. The hike was the last scheduled hike for the SCVN Friday hikes at the cooler temperatures in the mountains before beginning our winter hikes in Sabino Canyon next week.
The morning forecast was for rain in the mountains, spreading to the lower elevations by late afternoon. This might explain why Tim and I had only one hiker (Deborah) with us, the least number in our experience guiding the SCVN hikes. Reasons for such a low number are sheer speculation at this date, however we will continue to evaluate the service SCVN is providing through our scheduled Friday public hikes.
Regardless, the weather was great and as you can see from the photos in this posting, we had another excellent hiking experience. This was Deborah’s first Guthrie Peak hike and what better way than with Tim and I giving her all our guide attention.
kenne
Panorama View from Guthrie Peak of Storm Clouds Moving Into The Tucson Area — Image by kenne
(Click on any of the images below for a larger view in a slideshow format.)
Tim, Deborah and Kenne
Deborah & Tim On Green Mountain Trail
Deborah and Tim Climbing Guthrie Peak
Deborah and Tim Climbing Guthrie Peak
Tim & Deborah Descending Guthrie Peak
Tim & Deborah Descending Guthrie Peak
Southeast View From Guthrie Peak
View Of Thimble Peak From Guthrie Peak
Cutleaf Evening Primrose
Cutleaf Evening Primrose
“Hot Cross Buns”
“Over Easy”
“Over Easy”
Arizona Thistle
Wildflowers Along Green Mountain Trail
Mountain Marigold
Images by kenne
Guthrie Peak Computer Art by kenne
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Clouds Sing, But Not In Vain Leave a comment
“Cloud Music” — Computer Art by kenne
Not in Vain
When the afternoon dies
and age advances with
its disconcerting turns
when silence
falls silent for the last time
and the voice disintegrates
in the cracks of the soul
and the word extinguishes its lantern
before dawn falls
over streets and mountains
and the spirit closes its windows
to shut out the morning’s light,
only music will be left, little one,
music, to remind us
that not everything is in vain.
— Lucha Corpi
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Giant Mesquite Bug — Image by kenne
This Giant Mesquite Bug is not on its favorite plant, which is Velvet Mesquite trees — maybe she’s confused!
“I’m not confused, I’m just well mixed.”
— Robert Frost
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Greater Roadrunner Grunge Art — Images by kenne
“Clownlike it may appear to human eyes, but the Roadrunner is a very effective predator. Its speed on foot is not just for show: it captures not only snakes and large insects, but also fast-running lizards, rodents, and various small birds. Gambel’s Quail may pay scant attention to the Roadrunner at most seasons, but they react to it violently when they have small young, and with good reason: given an opportunity, the Roadrunner will streak in to grab a bite-sized baby quail.”
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Hiking The Sycamore Canyon/Reservoir Trail 3 comments
SCVN members Ann, Jeff and I were the guides for a small group of five hikers yesterday hiking the Sycamore Canyon/Reservoir out of the Gordon Hirabayashi campground. The campground is at 5,000 feet, a little over half way up Mt. Lemmon. One of my favorite hikes in the Santa Catalina Mountains, the trail leads up to Shreve Saddle where hikers stop to take in beautiful mid-range views before following the trail down to the reservoir, 2.5 miles from the campgrounds. The elevation change is approximately 600 feet.
A group picture at Streve Saddle.
The Sycamore Canyon Reservoir Trail just below Shreve Saddle.
Hiker Liz pauses to observe the waters of Sabino Creek flowing over the reservoir dam.
Liz is one of the new SCVN trainees.
Looking down at the base of the dam with a view of Thimble Peak.
Many Turpentine Bushes are in bloom in the canyon. — Images by kenne
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Wisdom of Art III” Computer art by kenne
“The main thing now is not to paint precociously but to be,
or at least become, an individual.
The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression,
whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.“
— Paul Klee
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SCVN Training — Day 1 3 comments
Sabino Canyon Tour Led By David Wentworth Lazaroff (September, 2011) — Image by kenne
Yesterday was day one of training for the 20115/16 Sabino Canyon Volunteer Naturalists (SCVN) class. It was just four years ago that I was part of the 2011 class. This year, as then the first day included a tram tour of the canyon by David Lazaroff, naturalist, author and founder of SCVN.
Like a kid, the first day of class was very exciting, getting to know fellow classmates, our naturalists leaders and meeting David Lazaroff. His book, Sabino Canyon — The Life of a Southwestern Oasis, is a must read for all naturalists in southern Arizona.
Yesterday’s first day for the new class brought back many memories as I was there to greet the new class members. This morning, before writing this post, I viewed again a video I made in 2011 of Lazaroff’s tour of Sabino Canyon. As per his request, the video is available only for SCVN members.
I love going to Sabino Canyon!
I love going to Sabino Canyon,
a place to come together with nature.
I love the people there,
sharing feelings with nature.
I love being able to see
the beauty of nature.
I love going to Sabino Canyon!
I love being able to reflect
on the art of nature.
I love close-up encounters
with all things in nature.
I love capturing the moment,
drawing inspiration from nature.
I love going to Sabino Canyon!
I love learning new ways
to connect with nature.
I love getting to know me
by connecting with nature.
I love finding surprising things
by getting to know nature.
I love going to Sabino Canyon!
I love the feelings of being alive
by walking with nature.
I love knowing that
forever is the life of nature.
I love knowing that
all that is, is nature.
I love going to Sabino Canyon!
— kenne
This video was first posted on this blog March of 2010, a few months before we moved from The Woodlands, Texas
to Tucson, and a year and a half before beginning training to become a naturalist.
Viewing this video now reminds me how little I knew about the Sonoran Desert,
still it’s a reflection of my love for this southwestern oasis.
To the new SCVN class: If you like Sabino Canyon now, you will learn to love it!
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The Matrix of Matter — Revisited Leave a comment
First Posted May 10, 2008
Does It Matter That There Is No Matter?
The short answer is, no. What matters is “…the matrix of all matter.”
The dictionary definition of matrix is “…that which gives origin or form to a thing, or which serves to enclose it; the rectangular arrangement into rows and columns of the elements of a set.”
A matrix is formed when parallel existences are crossed to form new relationships that allow for a convivial environment. For Max Planck, who most credit the modern use of “matrix”, it was the field of resulting from linking the conscious and intelligent mind. The process of doing this, in which we can exist as one in the universe, is matrixing. That is to say that we continually attempt to alter our surrounding into that benefits all existence more and more. This is what matrixing is all about; continually developing an environment by building upon a past development without having to recreate the original development from scratch.
From an existential view, it is the act of placing one’s self back into the world, becoming unified will all things. To do otherwise is to ignore enough reality, in which that not ignored is distorted in ignorance. Traditional science tends to view humans as separate from the whole and in doing so can result in the repression of a single phenomenon. The act of this behavior is judging. Thou shalt not judge! Placing desires for one thing above existence in the fullness of all it is. By setting up preferences, which exclude any of life, we have condemned ourselves to ignorance.
If matrixing is the process of living as one in the universe, then the goal of understanding existence is becoming identical with the process. One is closest to understanding existence when most puzzled as to the true nature of the universe.
Yesterday I received an email from a friend in Brazil in response to one of my blog entries, which I would like to share:
“Although I may agree with you in several aspects, I´m not that optimistic and idealistic. For what I´m concerned, many consequences (specially those relating to climatic aspects and geo-political caotic scenario) won´t be able to be avoided, which will cause an increase of pain and suffering in the world. Tomorrow´s dawn will be a dark one, no matter what we do now. We can only prepare ourselves and make sure the day after tomorrow won´t be even darker
‘Can you picture what will be
so limitless and free
desperately in need… of some…stranger´s hand
in a desperate land.’”
Such a feeling is not uncommon in today’s world, which has also been noted my one of today’s most noted writers, Gregg Braden, on the marriage of science and spirituality being the answer to solving the problems such as those expressed by my Brazilian friend. Last evening, Joy and I had an opportunity to attend Gregg’s presentation at Unity Houston titled, The Science of Miracles: If You Know the Code, You Choose the Limits!
Can we solve today’s major global problems, which have existed in the past only now to be converging for the first time into a “perfect storm” scenario? For Gregg Braden, the answer is Yes!
However, it is in our hands.
kenne
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As The Spirit Wanes 1 comment
A Change of Scene, Santa Catalina Mountains (February 21, 2013) — Image by kenne
Four inches
of snow
on the
mountains tops
April 26th.
this image
is not it
since the snow
melted
early morning —
Bukowski
would say
“as the
spirit
wanes
the form appears.”
–kenne
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“Flight” Two-tailed sallowtails among Mexican Bird of Paradise — Image by kenne
“Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.”
E. O. Wilson
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Sonoran Desert Wildflower — Grunge Art by kenne
“. . . the correct path is the path of nature,
which is constantly changing,
like the dunes in the desert.”
— Paulo Coelho
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Stages — Computer Art by kenne
I see what is
and imagine ways
to make it different.
Imagination allows me
to become a maker of
a new image out of self
thereby merging the
real with the ideal —
not a difference in kind.
— kenne
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Turkey Vulture Near Tanque Verde Wash — Grunge Art by kenne
