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Friday Morning Walk   Leave a comment

Snow on Mt. Lemmon — iPhone Image by kenne

Clear skies, low thirties

Snow on the Catalina’s

For this morning’s walk.

— kenne

The Humble Back Of The Mountain   Leave a comment

Aspen Trail on Mt. Lemmon — Image by kenne

Sun warms the lizard’s back
and the humble back of the mountain.
A raven croaks from the top of a thermal.
The valley oak above the barn,
dying a huge branch at a time,
stands in calm mortability, content
with the warm light that has fed its leaves,
the dark waters that have fed its roots,
its acorns that have fed the woodpeckers
for five hundred rainy seasons.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Bear Wallow On Mt. Lemmon   Leave a comment

Bear Wallow On Mt. Lemmon — Image by kenne

In spray-paint, psychedelic, gaudy,
Fall scrawls its name – a blunt and bawdy
Challenge to the complacent wood.
We say: there goes the neighborhood;
It is not and it cannot come to good.
Soon, flustered leaves will sag like torn
Wallpaper; solid dark walls, worn
Through here and there, exposed a bitter
Sky while, on the bare ground, litter
And stub ends pile up everywhere.
Not even one green plant would dare
Poke its nose out in the crude air
Of catch-as-catch-can thievery, lust,
Cut-throat protection and sick trust.
Where year by year we walked together
Determined paths, a wilder atmosphere
Wheels in, flaunting its chains, blades and black leather.

— from Autumn Variations by W. D. Snodgrass

December Snow On Mt. Lemmon   2 comments

December 2011 Christmas Card Art — Photo-Artistry by kenne

Mt. Lemmon got some snow earlier this month, but nothing like December 2011.  I timed it just right and was able to drive Catalina Highway
to capture some holiday snow photographs on the mountain. Click here to see some of the snow-covered images on Mt. Lemmon.

— kenne

A Fall Hike On Mt. Lemmon   Leave a comment

A Fall Hike On Mt. Lemmon — Image by kenne

A POEM IS A MOUNTAIN

a poem is a mountain

high above the city,

a place of contrasts,

filled with periods of

rain, snow and drought.

a poem is a mountain

filled with expressions of time,

filled with seasons

filled with life and death.

a poem is a mountain

growing old without pity

where God touches earth

bringing forth new life

changing earth’s colors.

a poem is a mountain

where rocks mark places, 

silence bringing on sound,

directing the eye

to things not seen —

only then does the 

mountain become a poem

— kenne

 

Mushrooms On Mt. Lemmon   Leave a comment

Mushrooms on Mt. Lemmon — Photo-Artistry by kenne

The truth knocks on the door,

and you say,

Go away, I’m looking for the truth,

and so it goes away.

Puzzling.

― Robert M. Pirsig

Mt. Lemmon Aspen Trees Talking Truth   2 comments

Mt. Lemmon Aspen Trees — Image by kenne

Come with me to the Talking Tree
a place where spirit and nature can be.
Where science of the forest couples
with ancient traditions of the land.
Where indigenous people learn to live
with trees mindfully hand in hand.

Listen to branches rustling hymns
through silent sounds in their limbs.
Mighty Maples murmur in the breeze
sweet tales of syrup drawn to please.

Trees converse, they do care sending
forest messages everywhere.
Through the air and underground
signals pulse from floor to crown.

Quaking Aspen is known for being
the earth’s most massive living thing
these trees united by one root system
the world’s largest superorganism.

— from Talking Tree Truth by Greg Gaul 

Mt. Lemmon Fall Colors   3 comments

Mt. Lemmon Fall Colors – Photo-Artistry by kenne

Looking up through the trees
what was a green canopy
has become brown and gold
against the bright blue sky.

Slowly the leaves will fall
providing a new carpet leaving
behind the season’s name soon
to be covered by winter snow.

— kenne

An Autumn Sunrise On Mt. Lemmon   Leave a comment

An Autumn Sunrise On Mt. Lemmon — Photo-Artistry by kenne

Signs of autumn echoes
Throughout the forest
As time present becomes
Time past in a moment.
As the aspen leaves
Dance in the breeze
There is only the dance —
Neither moment from
Nor towards.

— kenne

On Mt. Lemmon’s Aspen Trail   Leave a comment

On Mt. Lemmon’s Aspen Trail — Image by kenne

To my poet friends, how many have had the following experience?

Reading a poem to and audience, years
after its having been published
or even revisited, I discovered a word

that should have been another, an edit
that was so obvious to me—the  apt word
stealthily entering my consciousness—

I stumbled over it, embarrassingly
losing my train of thought,  nervously
shifting my weight, pussyfooting—

my feet doing a little dance, behind 
the speaker’s stand, my mind
in a state of reorganizational panic

as when the face of a former lover, emerges
from memory and lightly touches something
strangely new, something ethereal . . . 

— from The Edit by David M. Parsons

 

Mt. Lemmon Aspens   4 comments

Mt. Lemmon Aspens — Photo-Artistry by kenne

The sun breaks through
the low-hanging clouds
on the golden aspen leaves
dancing to the autumn breeze.

— kenne

Mt. Lemmon Fall Color   2 comments

Mt. Lemmon Fall Colors — Photo-Artistry by kenne

Drive thirty-five miles

To mixed conifer forest

Above the desert.

— kenne

Falling Leaves In The Catalina Mountains   1 comment

Fallen Leaves in the Catalina Mountains — Image by kenne

It’s that time of year

Raindrops form on fallen leaves

Clouds begin to break.

— kenne

Autumn On Mt. Lemmon — A Panorama   Leave a comment

Autumn On Mt. Lemmon — A Panorama by kenne

Leaves begin to fall

Here high on Mt. Lemmon

Now wearing long sleeves.

— kenne

Apache Beggarticks Wildflower   Leave a comment

Apache Beggarticks Wildflowers On Mt. Lemmon — Image by kenne

As fall comes to Mt. Lemmon

The mixed conifer forest begins

To show its autumn colors as

Mountain wildflowers will remain

Until the winter snows start to fall

And Mt. Lemmon becomes a house

Without beams and walls.

— kenne

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