Archive for the ‘Flora and Fauna’ Tag
Night-blooming Cereus (ceroid cacti) — Image by Jeffery Banfield
Night-blooming Cereus Fruit — Image by kenne
The Night-Blooming Cereus
And so for nights
we waited, hoping to see
the heavy bud
break into flower.
On its neck-like tube
hooking down from the edge
of the leaf-branch
nearly to the floor,
the bud packed
tight with its miracle swayed
stiffly on breaths
of air, moved
as though impelled
by stirrings within itself.
It repelled as much
as it fascinated me
sometimes – snake,
eyeless bird head,
beak that would gape
with grotesque life-squawk.
— from “Night-Blooming Cereus” by Robert Hayden
Listen to “Night-Blooming Cereus” by Robert Hayden
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Two-Tailed Swallow Butterfly (Papilio multicaudata) On Mexican Bird of Paradise — Image by kenne
“Every man’s foremost task
is the actualization of his unique,
unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities,
and not the repetition of something that another,
and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.”
― Martin Buber
Eurema mexicana Butterfly on a Mexican Bird of Paradise Blossom — Image by kenne
Indigo Blue
I paint you
pixie green
in a background
of indigo blue
as you kiss
the last red
and yellow
bird of paradise
blossoms
when the contrasting
colors
of late summer
soothe the soul.
kenne
October Wildflowers In The Sonoran Desert — Images by kenne (Click on any of the images for larger view in a slideshow format.)
“To speak of sparing anything because it is beautiful
is to waste one’s breath and incur ridicule in the bargain.
The aesthetic sense the power to enjoy
through the eye, and the ear, and the imagination
is just as important a factor in the scheme of human happiness
as the corporeal sense of eating and drinking;
but there has never been a time when the world would admit it.”
― John Van Dyke
Thurber’s Cotton (Gossypium thurberi) or Desert Cotton — Image on Mt. Lemmon by kenne (09/25/14)
Birdbill Dayflowers On Mt. Lemmon (August 29, 2014) — Images by kenne
Golden Columbine Art — Computer Painting by kenne
Thurber Cinquefoil Wildflower On Mt. Lemmon’s Sunset Trail (August 29, 2014) — Images by kenne
Lupine Blue Butterfly on Sawtooth Candyleaf Bloosoms
Lupine Blue Butterflies — Images by kenne
Trailing Four O’Clock Wildflower — Image by kenne
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Pringle’s Clustervine flowers have a funnel-shaped, morning glory-like corolla and bloom mainly after the summer monsoon rains. — Images by kenne
Coulter’s Hibiscus (Desert Rosemallow) Growing On A Rocky Slope Near The Sabino Canyon Dam — Image by kenne
Desert rose,
Unveil us the secret of life
As the only softness will survive when life is so hard
Soft as water, gentleness not easily broken, a lesson
The smell of you may call thousands souls back
Among of them most will care, a little will scare
You don’t cry when the evil hands break you a part
After all you lead them safe from lost
Brokenness they made,
But your fragrance lingering in hands
Haunting them back
Rare persona… in you desert rose
In the sandy ocean, you devote for better life,
Amazing grace based on your strongest will
Days without rain while the sun vapor the strength
Resistant but beauty even the land is burning thee
Root of hopes now stronger to find water deeper
True charisma, exist in you, desert rose
— from Desert Rose by Unknown Soul
Pincushion Cactus
Pincushion Cactus & Resurrection Plant
Pincushion Cactus & Resurrection Plant
Pincushion Cactus & Resurrection Plant
Pincushion Cactus
Pincushion Cactus & Resurrection Plant
Pincushion Cactus & Resurrection Plant
Nipple (Pincushion) Cactus — Images by kenne
We all have nipples
Some have beautiful blossoms
Her’s in reddish hues.
— kenne
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Desert Willow Blossoms — Image by kenne
August monsoon rain
Creates rivers with water,
Blossoms of summer.
— kenne
Palo Verde Blossoms — Image by kenne
This yellow blossom
Blooming late in the season
Responding to rain.
— kenne
