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In Honor of Georgia O’Keeffe   Leave a comment

Golden Columbine — Image by kenne

On black

the gold grows louder.

Each curve deliberate,

each throat of light

a doorway inward.

Look long enough

and the flower

becomes landscape.

— kenne

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Golden Columbine — Image by kenne

Late September

You shouldn’t still be here.
The cold has already taken the others.
Frost waits in the dark.

I stop, look at you.
A mistake,
outlasting your season.

Golden Columbine Art   4 comments

Golden Columbine Art (Mt. Lemmon) — Image by kenne

Morning mist lifts slow—

golden columbine glistens,

sunlight finds each leaf.

Summer On The Mountain   2 comments

Summer On The Mountain (Golden Columbine) — Photo-artistry by kenne

“May your life be like a wildflower, growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day.”

— Native American Proverb

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