European Starling (Kingwood Texas, May 27, 2022) — Image by kenne
A visitor in another land
mimicking other sounds
as noted by Shakespeare
singing to a Mozart tune
only to be blamed for
the decline of other birds.
— kenne
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Great Blue Heron Art 1 comment
Great Blue Heron — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Long neck
long legs
okay,
what the hack
waiting for the
right moment
becoming part
of the silence
what else is
a great blue
to do.
— kenne
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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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American Crow 2 comments
American Crow (Kingwood, Texas, May 24, 2022) — Image by kenne
Take time every day
To learn something
New to love and
Share with others.
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Early Morning Ride On Waters Smooth As Glass (Lake Houston, May 27, 2022) — Image by kenne
My photographs are easy to comprehend,
which is not always the case with art and poetry.
If a reader doesn’t understand a poem,
just listen to it. Like life, exposure to it
is part of its power.
— kenne
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Blue Jays — A Photo Essay Leave a comment
Blue Jay (Kingwood, Texas, May 27, 2022) — Photo Essay by kenne
(Click on any image to see all in a slideshow format.)
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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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Male Northern Cardinal (East End Park, Kingwood, Texas) — Images by kenne
The red cardinal
A page of trust and order
Devoted to life.
— kenne
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Stary Sacz, A Poem by Adam Zagajewski Leave a comment
Red-bellied Woodpecker (Kingwood, Texas) — Image by Hugh Poland
Stary Sacz
A woodpecker in his red cap suddenly brought back
the stationmaster in Stary Sacz.
Over the station rose a little town,
that is, an enormous market and convent of Poor Clares;
each house had one window holding jars of borscht and pickles.
The innkeeper’s daughter was so thin
that she kept bricks in her backpack to outwit the wind
when she crossed the viaduct above the train tracks.
The wind never got her, but other elements weren’t idle,
especially Nothingness and her rich suitor, Mr. Time.
******
Robert Pinsky wrote in The New Republic: “[In the poetry of Adam Zagajewski] the unmistakable quality
of the real thing–a sunlike force that wilts clichés and bollixes that categories of expectation–
manifests itself powerfully . . . Like a fish breaking water . . . the achievement of these poems [“Without End”]
is partly in that act of rising above a lived-in element. In Zagajewski’s work, the engulfing, ferocious
historical reality appears as our habitat–not a well of horrors to be borrowed for rhetorical thunder,
not an occasion for verse punditry, not a mere backdrop for sensibility. And the perception of that habitat
has a mysterious, elating power.”
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Andean Cockof the Rock — Image by Hugh Poland
In early February, my stepson-in-law went birding in Ecuador. Upon his return to Kingwood, Texas, Hugh put together this trip video.
— kenne
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Tufted Titmouse, Kingwood, Texas (October 9, 2021) — Image by Hugh Poland
The Tufted Titmouse is not found in the southwest but is common in eastern deciduous forests and
a frequent visitor to feeders. The large black eyes, small, round bill, and brushy crest gives these
birds a quiet but eager expression that matches the way they flit through canopies, hang from twig
ends, and drop in to bird feeders. When a titmouse finds a large seed, you’ll see it carry the prize to
a perch and crack it with sharp whacks of its stout bill. — Source: All About Birds
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Leave a comment
We went to see “Star Wars “The Rise of Skywalker” on Christmas Eve and loved it!
— Image with Jill, Abby, Chase, James, and Joy by kenne
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“Entrance” — Abstract Art 4 comments
“Entrance” — Abstract Art by kenne
Inside looking out
Colors move as the sun shines
Through plate glass windows.
— kenne
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Age Finally Caught-Up With Fox 3 comments
There once was a feisty little dog
whose name was Fox.
He demanded 100 percent from
his human friend, Jill.
In the beginning of their relationship
he was able to get what he wanted,
he needed her and she needed him.
Fox was her baby and he knew it.
Over time Fox learned to tolerate
others as long as Jill was around,
remaining very jealous of her attention.
Then James came on the scene.
Like his human friends, over time
he got gray, hard of hearing and
and learning to live with vision lose.
Even so, Jill give him life till the end.
(Fox died May 11, 2019 at the age of 22.)
— kenne
James and Fox (2009)
Fox, Chase, Jill and Joy (Christmas, 2001)
Fox and Jill (Christmas, 2001)
Kenne and Fox (2006)
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Hugh Serenading Jill and James as They Dance (June 15, 2019) — Image by kenne
At Jill and Hugh’s wedding, there was a lot of singing and dancing.
