Two-Tailed Swallow Butterfly (Papilio multicaudata) On Mexican Bird of Paradise — Image by kenne
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Capturing The Moment — Papilio multicaudata Butterfly Leave a comment
“Every man’s foremost task
Capturing The Moment — Eurema mexicana Butterfly Leave a comment
Eurema mexicana Butterfly on a Mexican Bird of Paradise Blossom — Image by kenne
Indigo Blue
I paint you
pixie green
in a background
of indigo blue
as you kiss
the last red
and yellow
bird of paradise
blossoms
when the contrasting
colors
of late summer
soothe the soul.
kenne
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October Wildflowers In The Sonoran Desert 2 comments
October Wildflowers In The Sonoran Desert — Images by kenne (Click on any of the images for larger view in a slideshow format.)
“To speak of sparing anything because it is beautiful
is to waste one’s breath and incur ridicule in the bargain.
The aesthetic sense the power to enjoy
through the eye, and the ear, and the imagination
is just as important a factor in the scheme of human happiness
as the corporeal sense of eating and drinking;
but there has never been a time when the world would admit it.”
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Sucking The Long Straw 4 comments
“Sucking The Long Straw” — Image by kenne
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Tucson’s Porch Fest, 2014 Leave a comment
Tucson’s Porch Fest in the Broadmoor/Broadway Village Neighborhood, September 28, 2014 Images & Video by kenne
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Capturing The Moment — Canyon Morning Glory 1 comment
Canyon Morning Glory, Molino Canyon, September 25, 2014
This morning glory
Brightens up the canyon walls,
My smile reflects it.
— kenne
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Experiencing Your Secret Destinations 1 comment
Seven Falls In Bear Canyon, Santa Catalina Mountains (02/07/11) — Image by kenne
“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”
– Martin Buber
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Children’s Fun Run In Sabino Canyon Leave a comment
Southern Arizona Roadrunners Sponsored Fun Run In Sabino Canyon (September 27, 2014) — Images by kenne
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Six time a year the Southern Arizona Roadrunners sponsors one-mile fun runs for children and one of the runs takes place in Sabino Canyon. In spite of possible rain, hundreds of children were up at sunrise to run in the canyon.
As in the past, the Sabino Canyon Volunteer Naturalists (SCVN) a nature demonstration table in the registration area. Naturalist, Ramona Pease, was kept busy answering questions of the inquisitive children. We were most impressed by the number of children who had been in the canyon before as part of the SCVN kindergarten/elementary school program.
kenne
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Capturing The Moment — Somewhere In The West Leave a comment
“Somewhere In The West” (Joy & Kenne) — Image by kenne
Somewhere in the west
Living life to it’s fullest
Always bearing down
— kenne
*******
Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road,
Healthy, free, the world before me,
The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose.
Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune,
Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing,
Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms,
Strong and content I travel the open road.
— from “Song of the Open Road” by Walt Whitman
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The Naturalist — The Man In The White Shirt 6 comments
Sabino Canyon Volunteer Naturalist, Ralph Mersiowsky Recently Passed Away In Tucson
— March 27, 2014 by Images by kenne
The Man In The White Shirt
Everyone who walked with
Ralph Mersiowsky
can share many stories about
the man in the white shirt.
During my naturalists training
I observed naturalists
teaching children,
each with his/her
naturalists vest
covered with badges
and many pockets
full of rocks,
minerals, seeds and pictures.
Of the naturalists
with whom I have walked,
from which I learned and
shared knowledge of nature,
Ralph will always be
the man in the white shirt.
For three years
I have spent
Thursday mornings with
elementary school children and
the man in the white shirt.
He has a star
above the canyon
that will always shine
on the hundreds of children
who are closer to nature
because of Ralph Mersiowsky,
the man in the white shirt —
a big-hearted, gentle man.
— kenne
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Capturing The Moment — New Mexico Thistle 2 comments
New Mexico Thistle — Image by kenne
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On The Road — Salt River Canyon 1 comment
Salt River Canyon (June 20, 2014) — Image by kenne
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Channeling Mt. Lemmon Trails Before The Aspen Fire By Hiking With Jim Martin Leave a comment
Jeff’s 2003 Aspen Fire Shirt
Jeff Ornstein
Eleven Years After the Fire
Jim On the Trail Through New Aspen Growth
Jim On the Trail Through New Aspen Growth
Old Trees Fall On New Trees
Old Trees Fall On New Trees
New Pines On The Aspen Trail
Old Trees Fall On New Tree
New Pine On The Aspen Trail
Jim On The Aspen Trail
New Pine On The Aspen Trail
Jim On The Aspen Trail
New Pine On The Aspen Trail
BJ and Jim Martin
Images by kenne
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The last SCVN summer hike on Mt. Lemmon included two very special naturalists, BJ and Jim Martin. The two have been active members of SCVN for over thirty years. I first met BJ and Jim on one of the summer hikes four years ago. BJ would wait at one of the picnic tables, and/or visit with people at one of the mountain visitor centers, while Jim hiked with us — sometimes as a guide.
This summer the Martin’s had not been on the hikes, so it was a pleasant surprise when they were at the Catalina Highway carpool location.
The trails scheduled for our last summer hike would take us in and out of the Marshall Gulch picnic area on Mt. Lemmon, so BJ would select a picnic table where we would later have lunch. Part of the hike would take us through some of the areas burned during the 2003 Aspen Fire. Appropriately, one of the naturalists, Jeff Ornstein, wore his Aspen Fire t-shirt. Now eleven years out, the mountain vegetation is making a welcomed comeback, while signs of the fire still remain.
As I hiked with Jim, I kept trying to channel what he would have been seeing before the Aspen Fire, the closest I will ever get to experiencing the Aspen Trail before the fire.
Jim may not be hiking as often as he use to, however, both Jim and BJ remain active working nature demonstration tables at the Sabino Canyon Visitors Center.
Hope to see you somewhere on the trail.
kenne
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Capturing The Moment — Artist In Sabino Canyon Leave a comment
Artist In Sabino Canyon — Computer Painting by kenne
Photo to painting
Artist painting in the wild
Wild inspiration.
— kenne
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Capturing the Moment — Greater Short-Horned Lizard 1 comment
Greater Short-horned Lizard On Mt. Lemmon (August 29, 2014) — Image by kenne
