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Golden Columbine On Mt. Lemmon   3 comments

Golden Columbine On Mt. Lemmon, July 2022 — Image by kenne

The only wisdom we can hope to acquire

Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.

— from Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot

Golden Columbine Wildflower   Leave a comment

Golden Columbine Wildflower — Image by kenne

The Golden Columbine is native to moist canyon seeps in the Chihuahuan and Sonoran deserts of southwestern
North America.
The word columbine comes from columbinus, in Latin “dove,” referring to the flower’s resemblance
to a cluster of 5 doves. The spurs represent the birds’ heads and shoulders; the spreading sepals,
the wings; the blade of the petal, each bird’s body. The genus name, from the Latin aquila (“eagle”),
alludes to the petals, which resemble eagle talons. — Source: wildflower.org

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Golden Columbine Wildflower In The Santa Catalina Mountains — Image by kenne

“We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own.
For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.”

— Alan Watts

Golden Columbine On Box Camp Trail   1 comment

Golden Columbine On Box Camp Trail (Santa Catalina Mountains) — Photo-Artistry by kenne

Mountain rains

bring out wildflowers

yellow and orange

in a sea green.

— kenne

A Columbine Bouquet   Leave a comment

A Columbine Bouquet — Image by kenne

At the edge of a stream

Stretching through mountain woods

Watching clouds create dark shadows

That sink down the stream where

Golden columbines shine

Though the dark shadows.

— kenne

 

Nothing Gold Can Stay   1 comment

Golden Columbine WildflowerGolden Columbine — Image by kenne

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nature’s first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf’s a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down today.

Nothing gold can stay.

— Robert Frost

 

 

Bougainvillea & Sunsets December 2012Sunset — Image by kenne

 

Golden Columbine   1 comment

Golden columbine (1 of 1) art_II-72Golden Columbine — Photo-Artistry by kenne

Be empty.
Be still.
Watch everything
come and go.

This is the way
of Nature.

— Laozi

Golden Columbine — Two Photo-Artistry Images   1 comment

These images were taken a couple of weeks ago,
but with recent temperatures down around freezing,
mountain wildflowers are in their last stage of life.
Still plenty of wildflowers at the basin level.

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Aspen Loop To Wilderness RocksGolden Columbines on Mt. Lemmon — Photo-Artistry by kenne

 

Nature Is A Sphere   Leave a comment

Box Camp Trail 06-28-13Mt. Lemmon Golden Columbine — Image by kenne

Nature is a sphere
Revealing cosmic patterns
In all the clutter.

— kenne

My Mountain Princess   Leave a comment

Golden Columbine-3199 blogGolden Columbine, My Mountain Princess — Image by kenne

My Mountain Princess
Loves shadows and mountain streams
Sounds of moans and sighs.

— kenne

 

 

 

Wildflower Art   Leave a comment

Golden Columbine — Grunge Art by kenne

Gold on the mountain
With two weeks of monsoon rains
In sea of deep green.

— kenne

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Aspen Loop To Wilderness RocksGolden Columbine — Computer Art image by kenne

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

— William James

Golden Columbine Art   1 comment

Aspen Loop To Wilderness RocksGolden Columbine Art by kenne

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

— E. O. Wilson

Addicted   2 comments

Columbine (1 of 1)-2 blogColumbine Wildflower on Mt. Lemmon (July 8, 2016) — Image by kenne

“I’m addicted to the entire planet.
I don’t want to leave it.
I want to get down into it.
I want to say hello.
On the beach, I could have stopped all day long
and looked at those damned shells,
looked for all the messages
that come not in bottles but in shells…”

— John McPhee

Golden Columbine With A Grunge Art Layer   1 comment

Golden Columbine with a Grunge Art Layer — Image by kenne

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