White-winged Dove after the rain — Images by kenne
Outside, I watched her
moving in a nearby tree
after rains ended.
— kenne
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White-winged Dove After The Rain 2 comments
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
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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
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The Sonoran Desert Monsoon Has Arrived Leave a comment
Late Afternoon Storms Over the Santa Catalina Mountains (June 26, 2016) — Image by kenne
It Smells Like Rain Today!
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Monsoon Rains In Sabino Canyon 5 comments
Monsoon Rains In Sabino Canyon (September 8, 2014) — Images by kenne
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Monsoon Rains Move The Desert 1 comment
Monsoon Rains Move the Desert — Image by kenne
Rains move the desert
Reshaping its very face
Reborn through aging.
— kenne
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Water Is Now Flowing In Sabino Canyon Quenching A Giant Thurst 1 comment
Visitors to Sabino Canyon were pleased to see water in the creek, the first time since the spring.
The water for now is flowing over the Bear Canyon low-water crossing.
Water is also going over the low-water crossing below the Sabino Canton dam.
Water rushing over Sabino Canyon dam.
Sabino Canyon Dam
Sabino Canyon Dam
Water rushing over the boulders at the base of the dam.
The area along the creek has been so dry that even the willows near the dam have dropped their leaves,
looking more like late fall rather August.
This ash tree, home to a Cooper’s hawk nest has also lost a lot of its leaves.
The water is providing a welcome relief from this year’s draught.
The creek will continue to flow as long as the Catalina Mountains receive Monsoon rains.
— Images by kenne
“A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.”
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire
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Capturing The Moment, Again — Columbine Wildflower 7 comments
Columbine Wildflower On the Mt. Lemmon Meadow Trail — Image by kenne
The monsoon rains are bringing on the Mt. Lemmon wildflowers. One of my favorite wildflowers is the columbine. Even though I have a lot of columbine photos, it’s beauty always makes me feel as if I’m photographing it for the first time — something poetic about that, don’t you think?
Enjoy!
kenne
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A River Flawed 3 comments
Arn’t You Glad The Rains Came? 2 comments
“What did we do before the monsoon rains?” — The Sonoran Desert Toad, Arizona’s Largest Toad
Images by kenne
Thanks to recent rains, there’s now water running in Sabino Creek and over the dam. New life is in evidence everywhere, and the lake above the dam has become a toad playground.
I wonder what Jeremiah is smoking? “Jeremiah was a bullfrog, he was a good friend of mine” — all toads are frogs, did you know that?
kenne
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Boy And Girl — Poetry Of Love Leave a comment
Boy and Girl — Poetry of Love — Image by kenne
Poetry of love,
Classic boy pouring water,
She embraces it.
Evening monsoon clouds
Hug and Color the sunset,
We embrace it
A wet olive tree
Dropping over the fountain,
Life embraces it.
kenne
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Trash in the Santa Cruz River North of Nogales, Arizona — Images by kenne
a river flawed
has gone underground
disappearing
from sight
leaving behind
life turning to death
maturing trees
casting shadows
falling branches
replacing their shadows
moving with
monsoon floods
gathering a
cultural wasteland
mixing with
yesterday’s dreams
filling, temporarily
a river flawed
— kenne
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