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
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Golden Columbine On Mt. Lemmon 3 comments
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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.”
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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
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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
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Golden 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
Sunset — Image by kenne
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Golden Columbine — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Be empty.
Be still.
Watch everything
come and go.
This is the way
of Nature.
— Laozi
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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.
Golden Columbines on Mt. Lemmon — Photo-Artistry by kenne
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Mt. Lemmon Golden Columbine — Image by kenne
Nature is a sphere
Revealing cosmic patterns
In all the clutter.
— kenne
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Golden Columbine, My Mountain Princess — Image by kenne
My Mountain Princess
Loves shadows and mountain streams
Sounds of moans and sighs.
— kenne
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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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Golden 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
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Golden Columbine Art by kenne
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
— E. O. Wilson
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Addicted 2 comments
Columbine 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
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Golden Columbine With A Grunge Art Layer 1 comment
Golden Columbine with a Grunge Art Layer — Image by kenne
Becoming is Superior to Being 