Archive for the ‘Desert’ Tag
Patio Sun Screen — Image by kenne
Our patio is where we can sit and watch the sunset. But when the temperatures start going over 100 degrees, it’s time for the patio sun screen. Through the screen we can watch the sunset with the shadows of the sago palm and olive tree on the screen — beautiful day in the desert!
We almost made it through May without hitting triple digits.
kenne
Female Desert Tortoise Covering Her Eggs — Image by kenne
HELMET GIRL
It’s spring.
Yellow wildflowers
dot the desert
landscape.
Strong winds
rain dusk
down on her.
She moves
at her own pace,
slow.
Having stored his sperm
from a casual meeting
last fall,
she carefully
selects a place —
digging
in the dry
desert soil
burying
a clutch of eggs.
— kenne
Floating By You — Image by kenne
just floating by you
like a canoe drifting free,
I stole some paddles.
— kenne
White Winged Dove — Image by kenne
a white winged dove
a symbol of my psyche
a life mandala.
— kenne
Our rain total since the beginning of April is .3 inches (.76 cm) — yes, we do live in the desert. Image by kenne
Our desert remains
hydrological challenged —
conserve or we die.
— kenne
Curve-billed Thrasher Perched on a Mesquite Tree Limb in Sabino Canyon — Image by kenne
This curve-billed Thrasher
Open against the blue sky
Dignity abounds.
–kenne
Looking Through the Looking Glass — Image by kenne
Once I walked along a field
Another nightmare in my mind
And beheld the fearful symmetry
Everything was beautiful
Even things that were dead
And I surged with violent imagery
I walked a thousand miles just to see for myself
Looked behind my eyes
And found my hell
And in the light of the sun we go
Through rain and raging snow
To find the things we do not know
I will go
Never laying low
Just tell me how to breathe
And I will make it so
You must know
That this is not for show
And if you are not wise
(It will) be your demise
— from Through the Looking Glass by Machinae Supremacy
Late Afternoon Sun and Clouds — Image by kenne
Grilling on the patio,
cloud shadows
move across the land
as the sun pushes back.
Horizon becoming a backdrop
for tools of the eye
camera never far away
capturing the moment.
— kenne
Pipevine Swallowtail After A Desert Shower — Image by kenne
Swallowtail in black
Hanging on after the rain
Soon to dry and fly.
kenne
Thistle and Bees — Images by kenne
Your beauty will fade
A time nature determines
Never in my eyes.
— kenne
Desert Wildflowers — Image by kenne
Tell me what you think art is — if you can
— ask a lot of people — and see if anybody knows . . .
You ask me about music — I like it better than anything
in the world — Color gives me the same thrill once in
a long long time — I can almost remember and count the times
— it is usually just the outdoors or the flowers — or a person —
sometimes a story — or something that will call a picture
to my mind — will affect me like music —
— Georgia O’Keeffe
Palo Verde Gallery by kenne (March 27, 2015)
I declare
Cue the sun
I declare life.
Cue the flowers
I declare spring.
Cue the children
I declare love.
I declare,
Isn’t it beautiful?
I declare!
I declare!
— kenne
(CLICK ON ANY OF THE TILED IMAGES TO VIEW LARGER IMAGE IN A SLIDESHOW FORMAT.)
Wildflower Images by kenne
The weather here is windy, balmy, sometimes wet.
Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over the place,
trees leafing out, streams gushing down from the mountains.
Great time of year for hiking, camping, exploring, sleeping under the new moon and the old stars.
At dawn and at evening we hear the coyotes howling with excitement – mating season.
And lots of fresh rabbit meat hopping about to feed the young ones with.
— Edward Abbey
Sonoran Desert Flora — Image by kenne
Sabino Canyon Visitors Center (February 24, 2015)
Brittlebush Blooming in Sabino Canyon (February 24, 2015) — Images by kenne
Patio Sun Screen — Image by kenne
Female Desert Tortoise Covering Her Eggs — Image by kenne
Floating By You — Image by kenne
Our rain total since the beginning of April is .3 inches (.76 cm) — yes, we do live in the desert. Image by kenne
Curve-billed Thrasher Perched on a Mesquite Tree Limb in Sabino Canyon — Image by kenne
Looking Through the Looking Glass — Image by kenne
Late Afternoon Sun and Clouds — Image by kenne
