Mountain Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus jarrovii) — HDR Image by kenne
The mountain spiny lizard is the cousin of the desert spiny, whose coloring blends more with the desert than the mountain forests.
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Four Palms Leave a comment
Four Palms — HDR Image by kenne
Clouds over rooftops
Menacing multi-level
High towers or plumes
— kenne
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Potted Lemon Tree (August 7, 2022) — HDR Image by kenne
After almost losing our Meyer lemon tree last year, this year it has a lot of new leaf growth and about two dozen lemons.
— kenne
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Indian Paintbrush Wildflowers On Green Mountain Trail 1 comment
Indian Paintbrush Wildflowers On Green Mountain Trail — HDR Image by kenne
Indian paintbrush
Red flowers on Green Mountain
Beautiful moments
— kenne
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A Secure Landing 1 comment
Brown Pelican Landing — HDR Image by kenne
“To put it still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing.
To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing
but a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet.”
— from The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan W. Watts
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Plains Coreopsis Wildflowers 2 comments
Plains Coreopsis Wildflowers (East End Park, Kingwood, Texas) — HDR Image by kenne
“Wildflowers aren’t meant to be cut & tamed.
They’re meant to be loved & admired.”
— Anthony T. Hincks.
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Common Green Darner Dragonflies Mating 2 comments
Common Green Darner Dragonflies Mating — HDR Image by kenne
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Flame Skimmer Dragonfly Leave a comment
Flame Skimmer Dragonfly — HDR Image by kenne
words
dart around
in my head
like a flame
skimmer
dragonfly
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Eastern Bluebird Leave a comment
Eastern Bluebird (Kingwood, Texas) — HDR Images by kenne
“If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why, oh, why can’t I?”
— kenne
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Yucca Plant At I-10 Reststop 6 comments
Yucca Plant At I-10 Reststop — HDR Image by kenne
Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road,
Healthy, free, the world before me,
The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose.
Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune,
Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing,
Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms,
Strong and content I travel the open road.
The earth, that is sufficient,
I do not want the constellations any nearer,
I know they are very well where they are,
I know they suffice for those who belong to them.
— from Song of the Open Road by Walt Whitman
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Spring Break At Seven Falls in the Sabino Canyon Recreation Area — HDR Image by kenne
May my feet always touch the earth
Stretching from the desert to the mountains
While I’m still able to hike on the rocks
Made by fire and time.
— kenne
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“The Dean” — Looking Back 1 comment
“The Dean” (November 8, 2001) — HDR Image Taken With My Camera
Lone Star College — Montgomery
There’s a long list of things I have done, and looking back, I don’t know how —
regardless, it’s always about perseverance.
— kenne
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A Sonoran Desert Valentine 2 comments
Fairy Duster Wildflowers — HDR Image by kenne
She loves the mystical
power of flowers,
its bloom symbolizing
the human existence,
opening oneself to love.
As spring embraces the desert,
among the first to appear
is the dazzling fairy duster.
Present everywhere —
on hillsides, washes, and grasslands
throughout the Sonoran Desert.
These beautiful flowers
covey a touch of magic,
of having mystical powers,
charming her —
this mystical flower
in a mystical land.
— kenne
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Building Mural, Portland Maine 4 comments
Painting On Portland Maine Building — HDR Image by kenne
Often I think of the beautiful town
That is seated by the sea;
Often in thought go up and down
The pleasant streets of that dear old town,
And my youth comes back to me.
And a verse of a Lapland song
Is haunting my memory still:
“A boy’s will is the wind’s will,
And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.”
I can see the shadowy lines of its trees,
And catch, in sudden gleams,
The sheen of the far-surrounding seas,
And islands that were the Hersperides
Of all my boyish dreams.
And the burden of that old song,
It murmurs and whispers still:
“A boy’s will is the wind’s will,
And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.”
— from My Lost Youth by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Born February 27, 1807, Portland, which at the time was in Massachusetts.)
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“The Pause” (The Wave Vermilion Cliffs National Monument) — HDR Image by kenne
Time to pause
Time to feel moments
Time to be.
— kenne
Becoming is Superior to Being 