Hiking with Friends -- Image by kenne
Through the empty frame
Friends wander beneath blue skies
Past and present meet
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Birdbill Dayflowers On Mt. Lemmon — Image by kenne
There is always this temptation
to keep walking,
to believe forward motion
is the same as purpose.
But the Birdbill dayflower
interrupts me—
a blue so exact it feels deliberate.
I kneel.
The mountain does not applaud.
It allows me this moment
of belonging,
as if I have earned nothing
and been given everything.
— kenne
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Go Alone, If You Can See Clearly 2 comments
Mt. Lemmon — Image by kenne
Go alone, if you would see clearly.
Crowds borrow courage from noise.
The solitary man,
standing before a vast horizon,
measures himself without deception.
There, humility is not taught—
it is required,
as gravity requires weight.
— kenne
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Life Will Test You 6 comments
Image by kenne
Life will test you—
with loss,
with longing,
with the long silence
of waiting.
But you are
not meant
to bow forever.
Stand,
even if trembling.
Walk,
even if slowly.
For every forward step
is an act of becoming.
— kenne
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Hiking Vermillion Cliffs National Monument 1 comment
Vermillion Cliffs National Monument — Image by kenne
Stone waves frozen mid-surge,
vermillion ridges unfolding
like the ribs of the earth.
Bootsteps press into silence,
sandstone breathing heat
from centuries of sun.
Every turn opens another cathedral—
walls painted in rust and gold,
arches carved by wind and time.
Hiking here is a passage
through color and quiet,
where the desert
writes its scripture in stone
on a canvas of earth and time
spread wide beneath the sky.
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Desert Hibiscus 2 comments
Desert Hibiscus On Cooks Camp Trail — Image by kenne
Desert hibiscus—
sun-kissed on Cooks Camp Trail’s bend,
silence holds its bloom.
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Seven Falls Hike 1 comment
Photo-artistry by kenne
The thin layer in which life exists is both fragile and resilient;
the earth does not need us, which is why we should care about it.
— Eric Walsh
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A Trail In Southern Utah 3 comments
A Trail In Southern Utah (06/11/14) — Image by kenne
Camera in hand
My images are a record
Of the trails I’ve hiked.
— kenne
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Esperero Canyon Trail 1 comment
Esperero Canyon Trail — Image by kenne
Esperero Canyon trail begins
in Sabino Canyon
winding through the
many giant saguaros
in the lower canyon
slowly going up
made possible
by trail switchbacks.
— kenne
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Hiking Esperero Trail In The Spring 3 comments
Hiking Esperero Trail In the Spring (Santa Catalina Mountains) –Image by kenne
In each line’s strange syllable: she awakes
as a gull, torn
between heaven and earth.
I accept her, stand with her face to face.
—in this dream: she wears her dress
like a sail, runs behind me, stopping
when I stop. She laughs
as a child speaking to herself:
“soul = pain + everything else.”
I bend clumsily at the knees
and I quarrel no more,
all I want is a human window
in a house whose roof is my life
–Marina Tsvetaeva
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Sabino Canyon Morning 1 comment
Sabino Canyon Morning — Image by kenne
“What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.”
— Edward Abbey
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Male Phainopepla In Sabino Canyon Leave a comment
Male Phainopepla In Sabino Canyon — Image by kenne
Far fowls have fair feathers.
— A Proverb
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Hiking The Wild Burro Trail 1 comment
Hiking the Wild Burro Trail in the Tortolita Mountains — Image by kenne
This is a popular 6.9-mile loop trail near Marana, Arizona.
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Deer In Sabino Canyon 2 comments
Deer In Sabino Canyon (12/19/14) — kenne
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Saguaro Morning 1 comment
Saguaro Morning — Image by kenne
