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Milagrosa Loop Trail Leave a comment
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Framing The Narrative Leave a comment
Sabino Canyon Sunrise — Image by kenne
“Photographs do not render reality–realistically.
It is reality which is scrutinized, and evaluated, for its fidelity to photographs.
Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm
for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality,
and of realism.”
— Susan Sontag
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Wonder In Nature 8 comments
Pine Cone on Mt. Lemmon — Image by kenne
“Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
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Wild Nature 8 comments
Mt. Lemmon Forest Colors — Image by kenne
WILD NATURE is not a crop but a cathedral, and a single old-growth forest is a databank containing more info than any legions of supercomputers could hold. Forests belong in a Department of Climate Defense, a Department of Homeland or of Global Security, a physical and spiritual Department of the Interior. So why is the U.S. Forest Service housed within the Department of Agriculture? It’s a relic of an earlier era of convenient ignorance, when we were told that animals do not feel pain, and that forests were just crops of fiber that could be farmed like corn. How did DOGE’s whiz kids overlook this fiscal and silvicultural mismanagement?
Forests absorb about a third of the world’s annual carbon emissions globally — but older trees absorb far and away the most. Our old and mature forests are an enormous asset in this planet’s climate portfolio. And yet the Forest Service is still working to clear-cut old growth. In the West, 75% of the agency’s current proposed timber sales are at least a mile or farther from the “wildland-urban interface” — the small towns and villages in harm’s way from the dragon breath of global warming. — Source: High Country News in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network
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Easter Bunny Abstract 2 comments
Easter Bunny Abstract — Image by kenne
“Hallo, Rabbit,” he said, “is that you?”
“Let’s pretend it isn’t,” said Rabbit,
“and see what happens.”
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Begin With The Glass All Empty Leave a comment
All My Doors Are Open — Image by kenne
Where you stand
Matters where you sit.
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Santa Catalina Foggy Morning Leave a comment
Santa Catalina Foggy Morning — Image by kenne
The only wisdom we can hope to acquire
Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.
— from Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot
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Colored Foot Bridge 2 comments
Colored Foot Bridge — Image by kenne
“The footbridge does not dominate the plants of the scene, but exists within it, a symbol of
a human effort to connect with and access nature. This reminds us that the garden
is not naturally occurring but is a natural space paradoxically created artificially by humans.”
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Sandhill Cranes 1 comment
Sandhill Cranes South of Wilcox, AZ, Before Starting Their Long Flight to The Artic Circle — Photoartistry by kenne
“Follow your bliss, and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.”
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Swimming Laps 1 comment
Joy Swimming Laps (June 2012) — Image by kenne
“But life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past,
neglect the present, and fear the future.”
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Looking Back In Time Leave a comment
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Costa’s Hummingbird Attracted to Spikerushes 5 comments
Costa’s Hummingbird Attracted to Spikerushes — Image by kenne
“Hummingbird darts lightly through the world, spreading its message of joy and beauty,
and teaching us to appreciate the wonder and magic of everyday existence.”
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A Tucson Sunset 2 comments
A Tucson Sunset — Image by kenne
“For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations,
deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.”
— Mary Hunter Austin
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Street Scene 1 comment
La Paz, Bolivia Street Scene — Image by kenne
The poorest country in South America, Bolivia, had been devastated by neoliberal economic policies.
— Noam Chomsky
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Sea of Cortez Sunset 2 comments
Sunset Over the Sea of Cortez — Image by kenne
“Let me absorb this thing. Let me try to understand it without private barriers.
When I have understood what you are saying, only then will I subject it to my own scrutiny
and my own criticism” This is the finest of all critical approaches and the rarest.”
― from The Log from the Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck
