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Monsoon Sunset Leave a comment

Monsoon Sunset — Image by kenne

With just a few days left in July, Tucson has already received 5.71 inches of rain, making this the fourth-wettest July.
I have recorded 7 inches on our patio in the Catalina Foothills. This amount of rain will help Southern Arizona recover
from the ongoing drought, improving from a D4-exceptional drought to a D3-extreme drought (National Weather Service).
There are indications that monsoon activity will start uo again toward the end of the week.

Posted July 27, 2021 by kenneturner in Information, Monsoon Rains, Photography, Southern Arizona, Sunset, Tanuri Ridge, Tucson Arizona

Tagged with Catalina Foothills, Drought, National Weather Service, Photography, Tucson Arizona

Cloud Whispers Over The Foothills Leave a comment

Cloud Whispers Over The Catalina Foothills — Photo-Artistry by kenne

Sunset cloud whispers

A halo on the mountains

Of yellow and blue.

— kenne

Posted July 2, 2021 by kenneturner in Art, Capturing the Moment, Catalina Foothills, Information, Photo-Artistry, Poetry, Santa Catalina Mountains, Tucson Arizona

Tagged with Catalina Foothills, Cloud Whispers, Haiku, Photo-Artistry, Santa Catalina Mountains, Tucson Airzona, Tucson Arizona

Smoke And Haze In The Foothills 3 comments

Smoke & Haze-art-72 Smoke and Haze In the Catalina Foothills — Photo-Artistry by kenne

We must make the most of life’s ups and down

when downs seem to overwhelm

do everything to lift up life through images

revealing its most brilliants.

— kenne

Posted July 3, 2020 by kenneturner in Art, Bighorn Fire, Catalina Foothills, Information, Photo-Artistry, Poetry, Santa Catalina Mountains, Tucson Arizona

Tagged with Bighorn Fire, Catalina Foothills, Photo-Artistry, Poetry, Santa Catalina Mountains, Smoke and Haze, Tucson Arizona

Rainbow Connection 2 comments

Rainbow In The Catalina Foothills — Image by kenne

I still believe that someday we’ll find the Rainbow Connection.

Rainbow Connection

Why are there so many
Songs about rainbows
And what’s on the other side
Rainbows are visions
They’re only illusions
And rainbows have nothing to hide
So we’ve been told and some chose to
Believe it
But I know they’re wrong wait and see

Someday we’ll find it
The Rainbow Connection
The lovers, the dreamers and me

Who said that every wish
Would be heard and answered
When wished on the morning star
Somebody thought of that
And someone believed it
And look what it’s done so far
What’s so amazing
That keeps us star gazing
What so we think we might see

Someday we’ll find it
That Rainbow Connection
The lovers the dreamers and me

Have you been fast asleep
And have you heard voices,
I’ve heard them calling my name,
Is this the sweet sound that calls
The young sailors,
The voice might be one and the same.
I’ve heard it too many times to ignore it
It’s something that i’m supposed to be,

Someday we’ll find it
The rainbow connection…
The lovers, the dreamers and me
La lala la lala la la la lala la la la

— Kenny Ascher / Paul Hamilton Williams

Posted June 3, 2020 by kenneturner in Catalina Foothills, Information, Lyrics, Music, Nature, Tucson Arizona

Tagged with Catalina Foothills, Lyrics, Rainbow Connection, Tucson Arizona, Willie Nelson

Saguaro Blossoms Leave a comment

Saguaro Blossoms — Image by kenne

As we enter mid-May, Saguaro cactus blossoms are popping out all over.

— kenne

Posted May 14, 2020 by kenneturner in Catalina Foothills, Information, Saguaro Blossom, Tucson Arizona

Tagged with Catalina Foothills, Saguaro Blossoms, Tucson Arizona

Catalina Foothills Sunset Leave a comment

Catalina Foothills Sunset — Image by kenne

Of Many Worlds in This World

Just like as in a nest of boxes round,
Degrees of sizes in each box are found:
So, in this world, may many others be
Thinner and less, and less still by degree:
Although they are not subject to our sense,
A world may be no bigger than two-pence.
Nature is curious, and such works may shape,
Which our dull senses easily escape:
For creatures, small as atoms, may there be,
If every one a creature’s figure bear.
If atoms four, a world can make, then see
What several worlds might in an ear-ring be:
For, millions of those atoms may be in
The head of one small, little, single pin.
And if thus small, then ladies may well wear
A world of worlds, as pendents in each ear.

— Margaret Cavendish

Posted April 25, 2020 by kenneturner in Information, Photography, Sunset, Tucson Arizona

Tagged with Catalina Foothills, Margaret Cavendish, Poetry, Tucson Arizona

Two Bees On A Cactus Blossom 2 comments

Two Bees On A Cactus Blossom — Photo-Artistry by kenne

“She had blue skin,
And so did he.
He kept it hid
And so did she.
They searched for blue
Their whole life through,
Then passed right by-
And never knew.”

― Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It

Posted April 21, 2020 by kenneturner in Bees, Capturing the Moment, Information, Photo-Artistry, Poetry, Tucson Arizona

Tagged with Cactus Blossom, Catalina Foothills, Photo-Artistry, Poetry, Shel Silverstein

Dark In The Sunlight 1 comment

Maiden Pools Hike “Dark In The Sunlight” — Photo-Artistry by kenne

A late afternoon breeze

sunlight shines through

in the shadow

of the olive tree

telling me of the

dark in the sunlight

as the music plays

I watch you from afar

dancing on this spring day

the things I’ve held close

have moved on

as I circle

trying to get my being

out of the experience

into the movement of change

becoming dimly aware

of the moment —

whatever will be,

will be.

— kenne

Posted April 19, 2020 by kenneturner in Catalina Foothills, Existential Moment, Information, Photo-Artistry, Poetry, Tanuri Ridge

Tagged with Catalina Foothills, Dark In The Sunlight, Existential Moment, Photo-Artistry, Poetry, Tanuri Ridge, Tucson Arizona

Bottle-brush Bloom 1 comment

Bottlebrush Bloom-72 Bottle-brush Bloom — Photo-Artistry by kenne

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”

— Lao Tzu

Posted April 18, 2020 by kenneturner in Capturing the Moment, Catalina Foothills, Information, Photo-Artistry, Quote

Tagged with Bottle-brush Bloom, Catalina Foothills, Lao Tzu, Photo-Artistry, Quote

Sagebrush Checkerspot 1 comment

Sagebrush Checkerspot — Image by kenne

“Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.”

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Posted April 17, 2020 by kenneturner in Butterflies, Capturing the Moment, Catalina Foothills, Information, Photography, Quote

Tagged with Alfred Load Tennyson, Catalina Foothills, Quote, Sagebrush Checkerspot

Free As Birds 1 comment

Lesser Goldfinch-72 Lesser Goldfinch In The Canyon — Image by kenne

We are free as birds, lockdown in our cages.

— kenne

Posted April 15, 2020 by kenneturner in Existential Moment, Information, Photography, Santa Catalina Mountains, Tucson Arizona

Tagged with Catalina Foothills, Existing In Absurdity, Lesser Goldfinch, Tucson Arizona

I Went To The Desert . . . Leave a comment

Catalina Foothills Sunset — Image by kenne

I went to the [desert] because I wished to live deliberately,
to front only the essential facts of life,
and see if I could not learn what it had to teach,
and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

— Henry David Thoreau