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Catalina Foothills From The Agua Caliente Trail Leave a comment
Catalina Foothills From The Agua Caliente Trail — Image by kenne
This morning’s hike was the Agua Caliente trail in canyons between the Santa Catalina mountains and the Rincon mountains in 32 windy degrees — a life not to complain about.
May the spirits of nature be with you.
kenne
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December In The Canyon — A Painting 1 comment
December In The Canyon Painting (View from the Bluff Trail) — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Early snow is melting
on the mountain top.
The creek is flowing
in the lower canyon.
The big trees are
showing solstice colors.
I walk the bluff trail
with no painter’s brush.
My camera is there
to take me beyond the brush.
I capture the image
recalling the story.
The whims of nature
stopped for the moment.
Later I use digital brushes
to add a painter’s touch.
— kenne
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When Opposites Are One 10 comments
“The Hunters In the Snow,” oil painting on wood by Pieter Bruegel
This work of Pieter Bruegel is a favorite of many people, but most know of his paintings only because of this painting, “Hunters in the Snow,” a scene appearing on many Christmas cards. His paintings are beautiful because of his compositions make one of opposites, based on Eli Siegel’s principle of aesthetic realism: “All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making of one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.”
opposites are one
composing yesteryear’s coldness
stretching through time
standing still in the moment
searching the unrestricted
working with opposites
reassuring in sameness
emphasizing divergence
promising order
pleasing to self
–kenne
(First posted December 15, 2009)
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A Tint Of Red 2 comments
A Tint of Red– Image by kenne
A tint of red soothes
Suggesting the warmth of love,
Human existence.
— kenne
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The Old Pueblo Celebrates The Dead In The All Souls Procession, 2013 Leave a comment
All Souls Procession — Image by kenne
Once a year a unique Tucson event, The All Souls Procession, takes place in which the public is given an opportunity to mourn, reflect, and celebrate the universal experience of Death, through their ancestors, loved ones, and the living. This year’s procession is this weekend in downtown Tucson. Last year was our first time to experience and this year’s event is expected to attract tens of thousands to participate and watch the procession that will follow a path of approximately two miles to Mercado San Agustin.
kenne
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Sea of Cortés Ebb Tide — Image by kenne
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Dragonfly Photoshop Painting — Image by kenne
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Capturing The Moment — Schefflera Bonsai 6 comments
Schefflera Bonsai Painting — Image by kenne
Schefflera bonsai
Surviving the desert heat
In a small planter.
Indestructible
A full-sized brassaia
In shade with water.
— kenne
(This bonsai started life in the sub-tropic climate of the gulf coast many years ago. We moved it with us to Tucson where it loss its leaves, but has come back strong. I will be trimming it back and repotting this winter — life goes on in the desert for this indestructible bonsai.)
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Early Morning Dreams: The Awakening And Starting All Over 4 comments
Early Morning Dreams: The Awakening and Starting All Over — Image by kenne
“In art and dream may you proceed with abandon.
In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
For nothing is more precious than the life force
and may the love of that force guide you as you go.”
— Patti Smith, Early Work, 1970-1979
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Untitled Art and Poetry 4 comments
Untitled Art — Image by kenne
. . . ?
coffee
dripping
honey on the muffin
frogs
singing
refuse to jump
blues
crying
heat all around
skins
dragging
drop to show
result
correcting
reset question position
hubble
looking
big-bang theory
verdict
hiding
in fine print
whiskey
swallowing
barely enough
head
watching
monkey on TV
autumn
existing
between hot and cold
high
soaring
broken winged bird
depleted
circling
glass half full
kenne
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Capturing The Moment — Hello Little Butterfly 4 comments
Tailed Orange Butterfly on Mexican Bird of Paradise — Image by kenne
Hello little butterfly
don’t fly by
I’ve waiting for you.
Dressed in my best colors
I dance in the breeze
desiring your kiss.
A flighting visit
becoming your fancy
if only for the moment
— kenne
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Flowers On The Border — Image by kenne
The Flower Tree
Begin the song in pleasure,
singer, enjoy,
give pleasure to all,
even to Life Giver.
Yyeo ayahui ohuaya.)
Delight, for Life Giver adorns us.
All the flower bracelets,
your flowers, are dancing.
Our songs are strewn
in this jewel house,
this golden house.
The Flower Tree
grow and shakes,
already it scatters.
The quetzal breathes honey,
the golden quéchol breathes honey.
Ohuaya ohuaya.
You have transformed
into a Flower Tree,
you have emerged,
you bend and scatter.
You have appeared
before God’s face
as multi-colored flowers.
Ohuaya ohuaya.
Live here on earth, blossom!
As you move and shake,
flowers fall.
My flowers are eternal,
my songs are forever:
I raise them: I, a singer.
I scatter them,
I spill them,
the flowers become gold:
they are carried inside t
he golden place.
Ohuaya ohuyaya.
Flowers of raven,
flowers you scatter,
you let them fall
in the house of flowers.
Ohuaya ohuyaya.
Ah, yes: I am happy,
I prince NezahualCóyotl,
gathering jewels,
wide plumes of quetzal,
I contemplate
the faces of jades:
they are the princes!
I gaze into the faces
of Eagles and Jaguars,
and behold the faces
of jades and jewels!
Ohuaya ohuyaya.
We will pass away. I
, NezahualCóyotl, say, Enjoy!
Do we really live on earth?
Ohuaya ohuaya!
Not forever on earth,
only a brief time here!
Even jades fracture;
even gold ruptures,
even quetzal plumes tear:
Not forever on earth:
only a brief time here!
Ohuaya ohuaya!
— from The Flower Songs of Hungry Coyote, translations by John Curl
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Capturing The Moment — A Bee In Paradise 2 comments
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A Different Way Of Seeing 13 comments
Forest Floor — Image by kenne
Many times we do not need a different way of thinking but rather a different way of seeing.
– Tractatus Vitae
