Monsoon Lightning Over the Catalinas — Image by kenne
The monsoon is here
Waves of precipitation
Greening the desert.
— kenne
Archive for the ‘Monsoon rains’ Tag
Monsoon Lightning Over the Catalinas 2 comments
The monsoon is here
Star Power Leave a comment
“Star Power” Silverpuff Blossom In the Santa Catalina Mountains — Image by kenne
Islands in the sky
High above the desert floor
Share the monsoon rains.
— kenne
Looking for Sonoran Toads in Sabino Canyon 2 comments
The monsoon rains bring new life to the Sonoran Desert. This past week has experienced some very good rain fall, especially in the mountains. The start of the monsoon season brings out the Sonoran toads, but they breed in water, and even with the recent rains we have had several months of no rain and Sabino Creek remains dry. The above photo was taken this morning, but based on sighting a few miles up the creek, there maybe water flowing over the dam by night fall.
Down from the dam, there are few pools of water that Jeanne, Dan and I explored this morning and found some toads. The mating season will last only a few days, so with more rain expected today and tomorrow, and with water coming down the creek, the toads will probably be very active the next couple of days.
— kenne
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. . . I would stand, 1 comment
Monsoon Rain at Sunset in Tanuri Ridge — Image by kenne
. . . I would stand,
If the night blackened with a coming storm,
Beneath some rock, listening to notes that are
The ghostly language of the ancient earth,
Or make their dim abode in distant winds.
Thence did I drink the visionary power;
And deem not profitless those fleeting moods
Of shadowy exultation: not for this,
That they are kindred to our purer mind
And intellectual life; but that the soul,
Remembering how she felt, but what she felt
Remembering not, retains an obscure sense
Of possible sublimity. . . .
— William Wordsworth
White-winged Dove After The Rain 2 comments
White-winged Dove after the rain — Images by kenne
Outside, I watched her
moving in a nearby tree
after rains ended.
— kenne
Sabino Canyon Panorama after Monsoon Rains, #2 Leave a comment
Sabino Canyon Panorama after Monsoon Rains, #2 (August 9, 2016) Image by kenne
They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars – on stars where no human race is.
I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places.
— from Desert Places by Robert Frost
Sabino Canyon Panorama after Monsoon Rains, #1 1 comment
Sabino Canyon Panorama after Monsoon Rains, #1 (August 9, 2016) — Image by kenne
Two o’clock in the afternoon
temperatures and humidity
in the low eighties.
The rain has gone for now.
Still, I’m wet with sweat
as the clouds hold on.
Soon three digit temperatures
and single digit humidity
will return to the canyon,
and we will retreat to
cooler hiking temperatures
on Mt. Lemmon trails.
— kenne
