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Neutral Touches Interwoven Leave a comment
Sabino Canyon — Photo-Artistry by kenne
I am a lone raven high
above the canyon wall
circling up, then down
as hikers make their way
on the old mule trail up
to a series of switch-backs
opening into a meadow
where many options prevail
going east, going west
before turning back north
to the mountain called Lemmon.
I am a lone raven blessed
to fly above other mortals
circling up, then down
but still, I work hard to fly
seeing images of life below
inspiration of an alien being
a curious extrovert, I call out
taken as a signal by some
just a lot of noise by others
still unnoticed by others
neutral touches interwoven.
— kenne
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I’m I Bugging You 1 comment
“I’m I Bugging You?” (Bugs on a Western Sneezeweed Blossom, Mt. Lemmon) — Image by kenne
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Revisiting Mt. Lemmon Wildflowers #1 Leave a comment
The Big Horn fire this summer caused so much damage to the National Forest
in the Santa Catalina Mountains remains closed to the public. Therefore,
hiking and photographing wildflowers in the Catalinas will not be in 2020,
which provides a good excuse to revisit some wildflower photos over the past ten summers.
Richardson’s Geranium (07/30/14) — Image by kenne
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Mountain Forests 3 comments
One of the things I love about living in the Tucson area is its biodiversity. Being in a desert surrounded by mountains (Sky Islands) with different forest biomes.
In the summer we spend time hiking in nearby mountain forests. However, this summer has been a little different because of the pandemic and forest fires.
Sabbaths 1999, VII
Again I resume the long
lesson: how small a thing
can be pleasing, how little
in this hard world it takes
to satisfy the mind
and bring it to its rest.
With the ongoing havoc
the woods this morning is
almost unnaturally still.
Through stalled air, unshadowed
light, a few leaves fall
of their own weight.
The sky
is gray. It begins in mist
almost at the ground
and rises forever. The trees
rise in silence almost
natural, but not quite,
almost eternal, but
not quite.
What more did I
think I wanted? Here is
what has always been.
Here is what will always
be. Even in me,
the Maker of all this
returns in rest, even
to the slightest of His works,
a yellow leaf slowly
falling, and is pleased.
— Wendell Berry
Since I write and share poetry nature, I was not surprised to receive a Wendell Berry poem from one of my hiking buggies, Deborah. She wanted to know if I had posted it in the past, having not it gave me good reason to do so along with the video, “The Women Who Planted Trees,” by Emily Barker.
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Camphorweed Grunge Art Revisited Leave a comment
Camphorweed (10/07/16) — Photo-Artistry by kenne
nature
is the cradle
providing a
dominion
for my images.
each image
has its place,
putting down
roots
in wandering
eyes
passing by.
— kenne
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Mt. Lemmon August Images From The Past 1 comment
Mt. Lemmon August Images (07/30/14) — kenne
Sneezeweed
Bitter dock
Carpenter Bee on Sneezeweed
Checkweed
Cranesbill
Cutleaf coneflower
Golden Columbine
Ground gopher
Late Snakeweed
Mexican Cactus Fly on Sneezeweed
Mexican Cactus Fly on Sneezeweed
Mountain Parsley
Mushrooms
Narrow-leaf cologania
Narrow-leaf cologania
New Mexico Fleabane
Richardson’s geranium
Richardson’s geranium
Sneezeweed
Torrey’s craglily
Torrey’s craglily
Western sneezeweed
Wrights Goldenrod & Cranesbill
Fendler nightshade
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“Video Guide To Visiting Mt. Lemmon After The Bighorn Fire” Leave a comment
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Be patient toward all that is unsolved . . . 1 comment
Marine Blue, Mt. Lemmon (July 4, 2017) — Image by kenne
“Be patient toward all that
is unsolved in your heart
and try to love the questions themselves,
like locked rooms and like books that are
now written in a very foreign tongue.
Do not now seek the answers,
which cannot be given you because
you would not be able to live them.
And the point is, to live everything.
Live the questions now.
Perhaps you will then gradually,
without noticing it, live along
some distant day into the answer.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Some Trees 1 comment
Aspen Loop On Mt. Lemmon (08/02/13) — Image by kenne
These are amazing: each
Joining a neighbor, as though speech
Were a still performance.
Arranging by chance
To meet as far this morning
From the world as agreeing
With it, you and I
Are suddenly what the trees try
To tell us we are:
That their merely being there
Means something; that soon
We may touch, love, explain.
And glad not to have invented
Such comeliness, we are surrounded:
A silence already filled with noises,
A canvas on which emerges
A chorus of smiles, a winter morning.
Placed in a puzzling light, and moving,
Our days put on such reticence
These accents seem their own defense.
— John Ashbery
“Written in 1948 when Ashbery was only 21 and a senior at Harvard College, this brief lyric has everything that his later, much longer, poems will advance. It is a love poem that never mentions love directly, but a feeling of being in love infuses the way the speaker sees, feels, and thinks about everything. It makes him feel both small and big, a tiny piece of a greater universe, but nonetheless connected to a world full of mystery and grandeur. A sense of the universe comes from gazing up at those huge trees from the ground while in love and remembering the immensity of that experience of feeling and thinking.” Source: Publishers Weekley
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Pearl-Bordered Fritillary 1 comment
Pearl-Bordered Fritillary Butterflies On Mt. Lemmon (07/08/13) — Image by kenne
I’m posting this Image from July 2013, because of the Bighorn Fire,
it’s not likely to see them this summer on Mt. Lemmon.
— kenne
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Bighorn Fire 9 comments
Bighorn Fire — Photo-Artistry by kenne
The Bighorn Fire
is burning up
my mountain
all my tears
won’t put it out.
— kenne
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Bighorn Fire, June 18th On Mt. Lemmon 3 comments
For some of us, this video is not easy to watch. Sad, very sad!
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Mt. Lemmon Fleabane Leave a comment
Mt. Lemmon Fleabane — Image by kenne
Thinking of the past and the future as the Bighorn Fire continues to burn on the mountain.
— kenne
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Miss Being On The Mountain 6 comments
Wild Rasberry On Mt. Lemmon (07/18/14) — Image by kenne
Those who love spending our summers hiking on Mt. Lemmon are saddened by the continued burning
of the Bighorn Fire in the Santa Catalina Mountains.
As I write this post, the Pima County Sheriff has told residents and businesses
to evacuate the Mt. Lemmon, Summerheaven, and Mt. Bigalow areas.
The Catalina Hwy has been close to non-residents and businesses for several days now.
— kenne
Becoming is Superior to Being 