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Wine for Two In East Texas   Leave a comment

Wine for Two-1137_art blogWine for Two in East Texas — Computer Art kenne

Wine for Two

Picture this,
the setting sun
beaming streams of light
through the trees.

Occasionally moving
with the breeze,
sending beams dancing
across the glass tabletop.

Captured for the moment
in two glasses of wine,
only to be released forever
to the hearts of each lover.

A visual of the mind
Seeking a mindless void
For each heart to fill
but a fragment of the matrix

The new field of vision
Changing the way things are seen.
The glasses in the picture
are forever changed to one.

kenne

The Perfect Trilogy — Blues, Beer, And Tits   Leave a comment

Gene @ Drafter'sLady Bikers at an Ice House in East Texas in a “Show Us Your Tits” Contest — Computer Art by kenne

The Perfect Trilogy

On a hot Sunday 
we ride a twisting
two-lane highway to
a Texas Ice House
Near Cut & Shoot
where the beer
and blues music
releases bikers
inner desires
listening to 
“My Baby Don’t
Wear No Panties”
fueled by women
showing their tits —
blues, beer, and tits,
the perfect trilogy.

— kenne

Blackberry Season In East Texas — Photo Essay   Leave a comment

Blackberry Season In East Texas — Photo Essay by kenne

A walk in East Park

Thick woods where the swamp drains

Into the river.

— kenne

Memories of East Texas   2 comments

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAKen & Mary’s Blues Project (On a humid east Texas night the rain forced everyone to move inside) —
Images and Video by kenne (Flickr Images)

WIP & Porter Davis

Memories of East Texas keep drafting

over Arizona mountains

headed to El Paso, San Antonio, Houston

where BBQ smoke floats

through the piney woods

and blues music heals the soul

to make up the conscious past

with the Last Waltz of

Ken and Mary’s Blue Project.

Over time we have learned

all good things must

come to an end;

things we enjoy,

things we find comforting,

things we love

all eventually come to an end —

“To everything, there is a season, and 

a time to every purpose under the heaven.”

Now it’s time to head on down the highway

to once again experience the blues at the crossroads —

“Let us rejoice and be glad in it.”

— kenne

 

Darkness settled over Ken & Mary’s Blues Project as Sonny Boy Terry and Rich DelGrosso finished their set, October 17, 2009, Porter, Texas.

Ken & Mary's 8-20-05 (1 of 1 Moon blog V)Original Stage at Ken & Mary’s Blues Project (August 2005)

A Christmas Eve Walk In The Woods   Leave a comment

This Christmas Eve was sunny and warm in Kingwood, Texas and as I have done in past visits, I went for a photographic walk in nearby East End Park. It’s just what I do.

“I wish to know an entire heaven and an entire earth.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Images by kenne (Click On Any Titled Image To View In Slideshow Format)

“There is no point in hurrying because you are not actually going anywhere. However far or long you plod, you are always in the same place: in the woods. It’s where you were yesterday, where you will be tomorrow. The woods is one boundless singularity. Every bend in the path presents a prospect indistinguishable from every other, every glimpse into the trees the same tangled mass. For all you know, your route could describe a very large, pointless circle. In a way, it would hardly matter.”

― Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

 

I Keep On Running   1 comment

magnolia-framed-blogMagnolia Blossoms — Image by kenne

I Keep On Running

I awake in time for
an early morning run,
magnolia blossoms opening in
the muggy East Texas air
pushed by squall lines
moving in from the Gulf,
moisture dropping occasionally
from the trees as I run
the sidewalk streets lined with
excessively large homes
and yards carved carefully
out of the woods,
having created a tragedy
of what was home
for what was meant to be
before society forgot
what it means to
embrace existence
without creating
self-imposed angst
in an irrational universe –
I keep on running
and running
and running
and running.

— kenne

 

Down On The Bayou   1 comment

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“Down On the Bayou” — Images by kenne

A lone cloud moves by
collecting others
as the day warms up
over the east Texas swamp.

Here’s the thing,
if you desire
to go on a bayou
nature walk

bring mosquito spray
and a small cooler
of Saint Arnold beer
to watch swamp critters —

alligators,
deer,
nutria,
otters,
bobcats,
coyotes,
and many species of snakes
and birds.

Without cat-like patience
spotting wildlife
can be nearly invisible
to the naked.

It sounds like a vacation spot:
Eagle Point.
But let’s call it what it is
a place where family rules.

We.
Would.
Not.
Be.
Here.
If not for the family.

— kenne

Looking For A Little Afternoon Delight   Leave a comment

Dragon Fly2015 05 04_0613_edited-2 blogDragonfly image taken in the woods of east Texas by kenne

Experts may know why
dragonflies land where they choose
often landing then away they fly
only to come back for a little snooze.

Dragonfly, dragonfly perched up high
choosing a branch on which to hand tight
hoping he will catch her eye
looking for a little afternoon delight.

— kenne

I awaken in time . . .   Leave a comment

The Woodlands_2015 05 05_0636_edited-1Magnolia blogSouthern Magnoia Blossom — Image by kenne

I awaken in time for an

early morning run,

magnolia blossoms opening

in the muggy east Texas air

moving in from the gulf

pushed by squall lines

full of moisture dropping occasionally

as I ran the Kingwood streets

lined with excessively large homes

and yards carved carefully

out of the woods,

having created a tragedy

of what was home

for what was meant to be

before society

forgot what it means

to embrace existence

without creating

self-imposed angst

in an irrational universe –

I keep on running

and running

and running

and running

— kenne

Wildflowers In East End Park, Kingwood, Texas   2 comments

Wildflowers In East End Park, Kingwood, Texas (May 4, 2015) — Images by kenne

Spring

in east Texas,

home to a

dense forest

of piney woods,

cypress trees

and swamps —

the livable forest..

— kenne

Nostalgia On My Mind   2 comments

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“Nostalgia On My Mind” — Image by kenne

Living in the past
Is not a flash from the past,
That is nostalgia.

Like a Springsteen song
On ordinary people,
Companions in time.

Embracing the past
So to engage the future,
Cross the railroad tracks.

Born in the forties
Goin’ someplace there’s no goin’ back,
Highway fifty-nine.

Pass on the story
“Deliver me from nowhere,”
Born in the USA.

— kenne

Jamming at Ken & Mary’s Blues Project   2 comments

Houston Trip 2013-8589 K&M Project art_edit blogGeorge Bearishill, Guthrie Kennard  and Julie Bonk jamming at Ken & Mary’s Blues Project, October, 2013 — Image by kenne

 
Video by kenne

“Just Through Loving You” — Julie Bonk   Leave a comment

Ken & Mary's Blues Project-8575 blogMary Bonk, Guthrie Kennard and George Bearishill on the stage at Ken & Mary’s Blues Project. — Images and video by kenne

People who love live music in a “house concert” format in the greater Houston area are aware of the work Mary and Kenneth Harris have done for the last 20 years. When it comes to house concerts it’s difficult to beat the live events they conduct in the piney woods of east Texas.

Ken & Mary's Blues Project-8555 Julie blogJulie Bonk

The headliner for this fall’s event was Guthrie Kennard with Julie Bonk. 

Ken and Mary first heard Julie at Camp Stupid at the Kerrville Folk Festival in 2012.

At one point in the evening, Julie did a solo singing one of her songs, “Just Through Loving You.”

kenne

Capturing The Moment — Breakfast Along The Trail   Leave a comment

East End Park-8449-2 blog“Breakfast Along The Trail” — Image by kenne

Feathers left behind
There’s one winner, one loser
Life on the balance.

— kenne

 

Capturing The Moment — Blues In The East Texas Woods   Leave a comment

WIP & Porter DavisThe PorterDavis Band at Ken & Mary’s Blues Project in East Texas, October 17, 2009. — Image by kenne

PorterDavis Band at Austin’s Threadgill’s south during SXSW, 2009.