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Towering Clouds — A Follow-up 2 comments
This is an image taken a few hours after the previous posting, “Towering Clouds”
— Image by kenne
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Climate Change: Do You Feel The Heat Leave a comment
“Climate Change: Do You Feel The Heat?” — Image by kenne
If you ask me
to show you God,
I will point to the sun,
or a tree,
or a warm.
But if you say,
“You mean, then,
that God is the sun,
the tree,
the worm,
and all other things?” —
I shall have to say
that you have
missed the point
entirely.
— Alan W. Watts
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The New Condition Of Our Condition 4 comments
Capturing The Moment — Schefflera Bonsai 6 comments
Schefflera Bonsai Painting — Image by kenne
Schefflera bonsai
Surviving the desert heat
In a small planter.
Indestructible
A full-sized brassaia
In shade with water.
— kenne
(This bonsai started life in the sub-tropic climate of the gulf coast many years ago. We moved it with us to Tucson where it loss its leaves, but has come back strong. I will be trimming it back and repotting this winter — life goes on in the desert for this indestructible bonsai.)
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“The Fire Debt Is Finally Coming Due” 5 comments
David Fitzsimmons, Arizona Daily Star
“Much of the West is now a giant tinderbox, literally ready to combust. Yet thanks to fire suppression, the consequences have been postponed for decades.
“When you look at the long record, you see fire and climate moving together over decades, over centuries, over thousands of years,” said pyrogeographer Jennifer Marlon of Yale University, who earlier this year co-authored a study of long-term fire patterns in the American West.
“Then, when you look at the last century, you see the climate getting warmer and drier, but until the last couple decades the amount of fire was really low. We’ve pushed fire in the opposite direction you’d expect from climate,” Marlon said.
The fire debt is finally coming due.”
— Jennifer Marlon — Source: New York Times
Related articles
- Wildfires projected to worsen with climate change (esciencenews.com)
- Why Big, Intense Wildfires Are the New Normal (news.nationalgeographic.com)
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Capturing The Moment — Sonoran Monsoon Leave a comment
Sonoran Monsoon — Image by kenne
Sonoran Monsoon
Earlier in the day
I was hiking in the sky
where it rained —
the top of the world is greener.
Now I stand
below and dry
flagstone at my feet —
rubbing my dry eyes.
Trying to summon tears
signaling the clouds above
for more than a few drops —
impossible to talk
about the loneliness.
— kenne
Related articles
- The Sonoran Desert And Its Diversity. (coyoteruntucson.wordpress.com)
- “Monsoon” (poompavai.wordpress.com)
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Something Cool To Look At On A Hot Day In The Southwest 3 comments
This makes me feel cool, it’s 109 today.– Image by kenne
Related articles
- Heat Wave Rolls Over Southwest (hispanicbusiness.com)
- Southwest scorcher: Saturday approaches hottest day ever on Earth (greaterdenver.co)
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Hot Dry Temps Bring On The Sonoran Monsoon? 5 comments
View south over Tucson from the Box Camp trail (approximately 7,500′ in the low 80’s) in the Santa Catalina Mountains as triple digit temperatures show signs of pulling moisture from the south. Maybe the monsoon is on the way — let’s hope.
— Panorama image by kenne
Related articles
- It Is Dry, Dry, Dry (kenneturner.com)
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Walking With A Friend Leave a comment
Walking with a Friend — Image by kenne
This past spring my friend Tom and I had planned on going to Puerto Penasco, Mexico to spend a few days fishing. About a week before the trip, Tom had his sixth and last chemo treatment. He had gone through the previous treatments with few side-effects, but this one really made walking very difficult. We still made the trip knowing fishing was not likely. We still has a very good time.
One of the things we did was gone for walks along the beach. Previous posting have chronicled our trip, but I had forgotten that I had also taken some photos and video with my iPhone, which I share here.
Tom is in remission and is current fishing with his son in Wales.
kenne
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- Morning Walk On The Puerto Peñasco Beach (kenneturner.com)
- Capturing The Moment – Osprey (Fish Eagle) (kenneturner.com)
- Blue Bottles . . . The Winds Of Time Trapped In Glass (kenneturner.com)
- Where The Desert Touches The Sea – Puerto Peñasco (kenneturner.com)
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Understanding Global Warming 2 comments
National Geographic “Age of Man” March 2011
Insolation Controls in the Age of Anthropocene
(Understanding Global Warming)
Anthropocene
newly coined term
a human condition
questioned by
the extreme right
argued as
alignment of
insolations
maxima and minima
questioning the new
condition
of our condition
kenne
Water in the Anthropocene from WelcomeAnthropocene on Vimeo.
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- Water in the Anthropocene – The Source Of All Life Is Running Out (thenaturaleye.wordpress.com)
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Earth, Sky And Padre Kino 2 comments
“Earth, Sky and Tumacácori” — Image by kenne
A priestly man
once traveled
the desert southwest
mounted a horse
armed only with love
a force without
a presidio of soldiers
connecting with people
of many tribes
building adobe missions
each opened to the morning sun
located within walking distance
understanding the desert paradox.
kenne
Second Annual Festival Kino Celebration
at Tumacácori National Historical Park
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Overheard At The Tucson Folk Festival 6 comments
28th Annual Tucson Folk Festival Art Done By The Arizona Daily Star Cartoonist, David Fitzsimmons
Two skeletons were lying in the sun
at the Tucson Folk Festival
one saying to the other,
“yea, but it’s dry heat!”
Related articles
- Warming Up At The Tucson Folk Festival (kenneturner.com)
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Morning Walk On The Puerto Peñasco Beach 4 comments
Puerto Peñasco Beach — Image by kenne
I walk Puerto Peñasco beach
toward the morning sunrise.
Puddles of water abandoned by the tide
run together, channeling to the sea.
Gaining speed turning back to my eyes
sliding on the sea of stone.
Leaving behind reflections
channeling thoughts of storms past.
Above, the dragon birds fly shallow waters
searching for day treasures trembling below.
— kenne
Related articles
- Day Trip To Puerto Penasco, Mexico – (Lukeville, AZ) (rv-dreams-journal.com)
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Dark Desert Grassland 9 comments
Dark Desert Grassland — Image by kenne
I am the desert trail
wondering
through dark grasslands
alone
but not lonely
clothed
with gladness
embraced
by the
mountain ranges
I separate
providing
a sandy channel
for mountain rains
to wash
the desert soul
never
to be wash away.
— kenne
Becoming is Superior to Being 
Insolation Controls in the Age of Anthropocene
(Understanding Global Warming)
Anthropocene
newly coined
unknown to
Joe the . . . ,
a new human
condition
argued as
invalid
only to be
based
on the invalid
alignment of
insolations
maxima and minima
questioning the new
condition
of our condition
— kenne
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