View of the Santa Catalina Mountains from the Douglas Spring Trail in the Rincon Mountains — Panorama by kenne
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Santa Catalina Mountains 2 comments
“Don’t it always seem to go . . .” Leave a comment
Turkey Creek Trail In The Rincon Mountains — Image by kenne
“Don’t it always seem to go,
you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.”
— Joni Mitchell
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Catalina Sunset Leave a comment
Catalina Sunset (View from Mica Mountain of the Santa Catalina Mountains) — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
— Walt Whitman
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Pistol Hill Road — Image by kenne
I’ve seen coyotes wondering by.
I’ve seen the sun hiding
Just over the ridge,
The morning shadows
Beginning to move
Across the rolling hills —
So peaceful, so quite.
— kenne
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Hidden Valley Rock Formations 1 comment
Hidden Valley Rock Formations — Images by kenne
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Tucson Basin Panorama 1 comment
Tucson Basin from Marana to South Tucson with the Tortolita Mountains, Santa Catalina Mountains, and Rincon Mountains
as seen from Wasson Peak in the Tucson Mountains — Panorama Image by kenne
“There are many people writing songs. That is absolutely wonderful.
Who knows, there may be some kid in diapers and he or she might succeed
in capturing in a few dozen words what great writers have spent years trying to say.
Just the right word in the right place with the right melody behind it and the right rhythm.
It might get around the world inch by inch, and people realize that this world is in danger,
that we’re in danger. That’s the way “This Land Is Your Land” got to be so well known.”
— Pete Seeger
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Today I thought . . . Leave a comment
Rock Formation Along Catalina Highway — Image by kenne
Today I thought of monsoon skies,
with big puffs of white cotton
gaining height in the midday blue.
Today I thought about the rain,
falling on the mountains
soaking nature’s soul.
Today I thought about raindrops
leaving prints on everything they touch,
congregating down the mountain streams.
Today I thought of my print
walking with nature
aligned with its very being,
my being communicating with its soul,
entering into a dynamic creative flow
experiencing nature’s bonding reality,
connecting all things in a meaningful whole
through which an allowance, a trust,
opens the vessels of my very being,
allowing my snapshots to profile nature’s
abundance of comfort and wealth,
in the horn of plenty on life’s table
where each moment captured becomes
a reminder that “life is just a leap of faith —
so spread your arms and hold your breath . . .”
Today I thought . . .
kenne
(A tip of the hat to Guy Clark.)
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Miller Creek Trail 5 comments
Miller Creek Trail in the Rincon Mountains — Digital Art by kenne
“When you go out into the woods and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever. And you look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so it turned that way. And you don’t get all emotional about it. You just allow it. You appreciate the tree. The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you are constantly saying ‘You’re too this, or I’m too this.’ That judging mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are.”
– Ram Dass
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Hiking Douglas Spring Trail — Image by kenne
Tomorrow’s Sabino Canyon Volunteer Naturalists (SCVN) Friday hike will be on the Douglas Spring Trail in the Rincon Mountains. For the first time in several years, I will not be participating. I will miss being on this hike.
A flat start into the morning sun
Hikers leaving behind long shadows
On a trail that will soon disappear
As we start our climb in
The mountain’s shadow, stopping
Only to watch things themselves
Letting the sun and earth
Go about their changes.
— kenne
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Agua Caliente Trail (View from Agua Caliente Trail of the Rincon Mountains.) — Image by kenne
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
Plato
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Turkey Creek Trail Gate — Computer Painting by kenne
The Little Rincons
East of the Rincons
Fenced-in weathered grasslands
Near Turkey Creek.
4X4 drive reachable
From tall oaks along the creek
To golden meadows.
Enter a new world
Hidden from desert norm
A breath of cool air.
Passby cattle lands
A short dirt drive north of I-10
Near Hidden Pastures.
A wilderness route
Not considered a trail hike
Takes cross-country skills.
— kenne
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Mica Mountain Sunset 6 comments
Mica Mountain Sunset — Computer Art by kenne
I love Rincon hikes
Camping on Mica Mountain.
What is not to love?
— kenne
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Tucson Basin Panorama Leave a comment
Tucson Basin Panorama — Image by kenne
View from Wasson Peak, in the Tucson Mountains, looking towards the Tortolita Mountains,
Santa Catalina Mountains, and the Rincon Mountains.
Standing on a desert peak
you may feel like a
pebble of sand in a vast desert,
you are the entire desert in a pebble.
— kenne
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View of Hoodoos and the Rincon Mountains along the Catalina Highway — Panorama by kenne
Hoodoo pinnacles
Scenic diversity charm
Rocks stacked over time.
— kenne
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Bushed 2 comments
Hiking the Italian Springs Trail (April, 2012) — Image by kenne
bushed
a trail cursed
and charmed
taking a breather
in solitude
and shade
alligator junipers
mountain pines
overlooking a
big sky pass
scrambling time
and seasons
whence we came
where we went
Redington road
to the plateau
beneath Mica
mountain summit
till you get there yourself
it remains our paradise
sharing our wanderlust
in this virtual world
— kenne
