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New Year’s Day With Friends, 2006 1 comment

New Year’s Day With Friends, 2006 — Image by kenne

Those Were The Days

— Gene Raskin

Once upon a time there was a tavern
Where we used to raise a glass or two
Remember how we laughed away the hours
And think of all the great things we would do

Those were the days my friend
We thought they’d never end
We’d sing and dance forever and a day
We’d live the life we choose
We’d fight and never lose
For we were young and sure to have our way
La la la la la la
La la la la la la
La la la la La la la la la la

Then the busy years went rushing by us
We lost our starry notions on the way
If by chance I’d see you in the tavern
We’d smile at one another and we’d say

Those were the days my friend
We thought they’d never end
We’d sing and dance forever and a day
We’d live the life we choose
We’d fight and never lose

Those were the days, oh yes those were the days
La la la la la la
La la la la la la
La la la la La la la la la la

Just tonight I stood before the tavern
Nothing seemed the way it used to be
In the glass I saw a strange reflection
Was that lonely woman really me

Those were the days my friend
We thought they’d never end
We’d sing and dance forever and a day
We’d live the life we choose
We’d fight and never lose
Those were the days, oh yes those were the days
La la la la la la
La la la la la la
La la la la La la la la la la
la la la la la la
La la la la la la
La la la la La la la la la la

Through the door there came familiar laughter
I saw your face and heard you call my name
Oh my friend we’re older but no wiser
For in our hearts the dreams are still the same

Those were the days my friend
We thought they’d never end
We’d sing and dance forever and a day
We’d live the life we choose
We’d fight and never lose
Those were the days, oh yes those were the days
La la la la la la
La la la la la la
La la la la La la la la la la
La la la la la la
La la la la la la
La la la la La la la la la la

Posted January 1, 2022 by kenneturner in Capturing the Moment, Information

Tagged with 2006, Conroe Texas, Friends, Gene Raskin, La la la la la la, Mary Hopkin, New Years Day

First Time In Awhile 3 comments

Jim and John Walking to the Broadway Trailhead In Saguaro National Park. — Images by kenne

Yesterday morning and this morning, it’s been cool enough to consider hiking in the desert.
So, when Tom called yesterday and asked me to go hiking, I felt a rush of energy pinned up since the spring.
Normally the hot desert days drive us up to Mt. Lemmon to hit the mountain trails.
However, this summer, the trails have been closed because of the Big Horn Fire.
So, this morning Jim, John, Tom, and I met at the usual meeting place outside the Bear Canyon branch
of the Pima County Library to mask-up and carpool to one of the many park trailheads.

Here in Tucson, we are not currently experiencing the orange sky the forest fires have created in California.
But, we have a haze covered sky coming from the many fires in the western states, making it easy to look directly at the sun.

Signs of our prolonged drought are everywhere. Even normally, drought-resistant plants are struggling.

We spent about 2 1/2 hours hiking various trails and washes in the Park. My friends have been hiking
these trails much longer than I, and if you are wondering, I’m the youngest of us.

HAPPY FEET!

Posted September 11, 2020 by kenneturner in Hiking, Information, Photography, Saguaro National Park - East, Tucson Arizona

Tagged with Forest Fires, Friends, Hiking, Phootography, Saguaro National Park, Tucson Arizona

Reflections In The Water Leave a comment

Reflections In The Water (Whitewater Draw) — Image by kenne

We stand together

Reflecting togetherness

Legs in the water.

— kenne

Posted February 2, 2020 by kenneturner in Birds, Information, Photography, Poetry, Whitewater Draw

Tagged with Friends, Reflections, Sandhill Crane, togetherness, Whitewater Draw

Valentines Dinner with Friends in Puerto Peñasco Leave a comment

Valentines Dinner with Friends Patty and Tom Markey in Puerto Peñasco (February 14, 2018)

Our dinner with friends
Was a very special time
On a special day.

— kenne

Posted February 18, 2018 by kenneturner in Capturing the Moment, Information, Photography, Poetry

Tagged with Friends, Haiku, Poetry, Puerto Peñasco, Sonora (Mexico), Valentine's Day

Friends Leave a comment

Friends — Computer Art by kenne

Here not by a choice
She is young and beautiful
He old and prickly.

— kenne

Posted November 12, 2017 by kenneturner in Arizona, Art, Computer Art, Information, Photography, Photoshop, Poetry, Santa Catalina Mountains, Tucson Arizona

Tagged with Computer Art, Friends, Haiku, Poetry, Santa Catalina Mountains, Tucson Arizona

Texas Blues Friends At Papa’s Ice House Leave a comment

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA Texas Blues Friends at Papa’s Ice House in The Woodlands, Texas (June 2002)

Posted September 6, 2013 by kenneturner in Friends, Information, Life, Music, Photography

Tagged with 2002, Blogging, Blues Friends, Blues Music, Friends, Ice House, Original Friends Of The Blues Montgomery County, Original Papa's Icehouse, Papa's Ice House, Texas Blues, The Woodlands Texas, woodlands texas

Capturing The Moment — Rodeo Weekend ‘Friday With Friends’ Leave a comment

Tucson Rodeo Weekend ‘Friday with Friends’ — Images by kenne

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Capturing The Moment — Friday with Friends (kenneturner.com)

Posted February 17, 2013 by kenneturner in Capturing the Moment, Friends, Information, Life, Photography

Tagged with Friday with Friends, Friends, Photography, Rodeo, rodeo weekend, Tucson Arizona, Tucson Rodeo

Capturing The Moment — Want To Share Some Shade? 1 comment

“Want To Share Some Shade?” — Image by kenne

Some shade from the sun

Is always better than none

When in the desert.

kenne

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Posted November 22, 2012 by kenneturner in Capturing the Moment, Life, Photography, Poetry

Tagged with Friends, Haiku, Horses, Sabino Canyon, Trail Horses, Want To Share Some Shade

Remembering Mean Gene Kelton — One Year Out 1 comment

Mean Gene Kelton — Image by kenne

One year ago today, our very good friend, Mean Gene Kelton died in an auto accident. I first met Gene at a Houston Blues Society (HBS) board meeting we were attending to explore how a group we were forming, Friends of the Blues — Montgomery County, might work with HBS. The focus of our group was an educational series on the Blues, which would be offered through the continuing education department at Montgomery College. Gene expressed an interest in being a part of our new project, and for the next year he and Joni would drive from Baytown to The Woodlands once a week — to say the least, we were impressed and appreciative of their involvement. That kind of support and commitment says more than words as to the kind of man Mean Gene Kelton was.

Over the past decade I had plenty of opportunity to photograph Gene, and in recent years to also video some of his gigs. (See links below.) As fate would have it, Joy and I were in Houston over the holidays last year and were planning on being at his New Years day matinée at Rowdy Bucks in Crosby, Texas, which we had also attended two-years earlier. The video on this post contains clips from the events that followed Gene’s tragic death.