The Flowers Of Balboa Park — Images by kenne
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Tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes!
— from “Lines Written in Early Spring” by William Wordsworth
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Yard Flowers, March 2015 1 comment
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March 2015 Flowers In Our Desert Yard — Images by kenne (See on Flickr)
This blog frequently posts images of wildflowers in the Sonoran desert,
to the neglect of domestic flowers in our yard.
So, it’s their turn to be shared.
What’s not to love about flowers, domestic or wild?
Spring flowers abound
Opening in the sunlight
Keeping us spellbound.
— kenne
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Desert Wildflowers: I Declare — A Great Time Of The Year For Hiking 3 comments
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
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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
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Bordered Patch Butterfly (October 11, 2014) Images by kenne
But these are flowers that fly and all but sing:
And now from having ridden out desire
They lie closed over in the wind and cling
Where wheels have freshly sliced the April mire.
— Robert Frost, “Blue-Butterfly Day”
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Capturing The Moment — Rain Clouds Breaking At Sunset 6 comments
“After The Rain” — 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
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Capturing The Moment — Desert Phlox In The Little Rincon Mountains 4 comments
Desert Phlox Wildflower — Image by kenne
Flowers have spoken to me
more than I can tell in written words.
They are the hieroglyphics of angels,
loved by all men for the beauty of the character,
though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.
— Lydia M. Child
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“Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day” 2 comments
Mountain Marigold
A Prayer in Spring
Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day;
And give us not to think so far away
As the uncertain harvest; keep us here
All simply in the springing of the year.
Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white,
Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night;
And make us happy in the happy bees,
The swarm dilating round the perfect trees.
And make us happy in the darting bird
That suddenly above the bees is heard,
The meteor that thrusts in with needle bill,
And off a blossom in mid air stands still.
For this is love and nothing else is love,
The which it is reserved for God above
To sanctify to what far ends He will,
But which it only needs that we fulfil.
— Robert Frost
“Happy Bees” — Images by kenne
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A Tint Of Red 2 comments
A Tint of Red– Image by kenne
A tint of red soothes
Suggesting the warmth of love,
Human existence.
— kenne
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I Fall From The Sky 4 comments
“I Fall from the Sky” — Image by kenne
Falling from the sky
clouds drifting in a blue sea
green shooting orange.
— kenne
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I Lie Among The Flowers 8 comments
“I Lie Among The Flowers” — Image by kenne
I lie among the flowers
aging gracefully over the years
adding to earth’s character
intersecting life’s whispers.
kenne
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Capturing The Moment — Flowers & Butterflies 3 comments
Cloudless Sulphur Butterfly — Images by kenne
Butterfly, Butterfly
butterfly, butterfly
fly in the sky
butterfly, butterfly
flies so high
butterfly, butterfly
lands on my thigh
butterfly, butterfly
motionlessly lies
butterfly, butterfly
gracefully dies
Adryan Bates
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Capturing The Moment — Hedgehog Cactus Flowers In Madera Canyon 3 comments
“The Triad” — Hedgehog Cactus Blooms, Image by kenne
On a recent hike on the Dutch John Trail in Madera Canyon (Santa Rita Mountains) we spotted few flowers. This beautiful triad of hedgehog cactus blossoms was an exception. Nessaled in the fallen leaves of the surrounding trees at the 4,500 foot level, I was able to capture an image different from the dirt and rock desert floor.
kenne
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Capturing the Moment — Street Sign Leave a comment
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Capturing the Moment — Spring Flowers On The Patio Leave a comment
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Thou that hast giv’n so much to me,
Give the thing more, a gratefull heart;
See how Thy beggar works in Thee
By art:
He makes thy gifts occasion more
And says, if he in this be crost,
All Thou hast given him heretofore
Is lost.
— George Herbert
