Cactus Wren — Image by kenne
Lonely wren
high atop a saguaro
resting on spins
no drops of blood
only manipulating
carefully while
coolly surveying
the desert floor
against a cloudless sky.
— kenne
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Death 2 comments
Image by kenne
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Saguaro Towers Leave a comment
Saguaro Towers — Image by kenne
Judgment: Being able to back up a car without AI.
— kenne
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Persistence — The Mighty Saguaro 1 comment
Persistence — Image by kenne
There’s a thousand “Can’t-be-done-ers”
For the one who says “It can!”
But the whole amount of deeds that count
Is done by the latter clan.
For the “Can’t-be-done-ers” grumble,
And hamper, oppose and doubt,
While the daring man who says “It can!”
Proceeds to work it out.
— from A Thousand To One by Berton Braley
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The Good Fight 4 comments
“It’s A Tough Life” — Photo-Artistry by kenne
The Good Fight
It is a tough life
In my second century
Giving the good fight.
— kenne
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Joshua Tree 1 comment
Joshua Tree — Image by kenne
The splendor of the Joshua tree
is as unique and identifiable
to the Mohave Desert
as the majestic saguaro cactus
is to the Sonoran Desert.
— kenne
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Saguaro Near Bear Canyon Trail — Image by kenne
The Mighty Saguaro
The mighty saguaro,
so majestic and tall,
holds its lifelong secrets
surprising one and all.
The seedling saguaro
begins small and afraid,
hoping it will survive
beneath the nurse plant’s shade.
The tiny saguaro
grows a little each year,
searching for the water
which is precious and dear.
The struggling saguaro
pushes upward for days,
glad it keeps avoiding
a new herbivore’s gaze.
The lucky saguaro
survives the desert heat,
outliving the nurse plant
not knowing of its feat.
The patient saguaro
looks skyward at all hours,
until at age fifty
it produces first flowers.
The giving saguaro
shares its bounty with all
who wait for months on end
for tasty fruits to fall.
The youthful saguaro
knows at seventy-five
that its newly formed arms
keeps desert friends alive.
The aging saguaro
has been a willing friend
to desert’s small creatures
dependent to the end.
The mighty saguaro
grows to fifty feet high,
waiting two hundred years
to almost touch the sky.
— Debbie Emery
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Red-tail Hawk Silhouette 2 comments
Red-tail Hawk Silhouette — iPhone 6 Image by kenne
Yesterday I was walking into Sabino Canyon to teach 1st-grade students how the Hohokam lived in the canyon and the Tucson basin hundreds of years ago when a friend spotted a red-tail hawk atop a tall saguaro cactus. Sadly, I didn’t have my Nikon camera with me, so I made use of my iPhone to capture an image. Not what I would like to capture, but it’s better than not getting an image at all.
— kenne
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The Halo of Death — Photo-Artistry by kenne
A halo of death
A sky where death is asleep
A corpse stands along.
— kenne
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Desert Morning On The Trail 4 comments
Saguaro Cactus (Pistol Hill Trail, January 11, 2019) — Image by kenne
Cold desert morning
Moving briskly on the trail
Dewdrops on dried weeds.
— kenne
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Grasshopper Atop a Saguaro Cactus 2 comments
Horse Lubber Grasshopper Atop a Saguaro Cactus — Photo-Artistry by kenne
A big grasshopper
On top of a big cactus
A bigness du Jour.
— kenne
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Cactus Wren Atop A Saguaro Cactus — Image by kenne
Despairing of God
I went to the desert
to seek my own saint.
— from Sonoran Desert Sutras by Luis Alberto Urrea
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Saguaro Blossoms — Image by kenne
Saguaro blossoms
The signature desert plant
Sonoran symbol.
— kenne
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Forever 1 comment
Dead Saguaro Cactus — Image by kenne
The one thing we know about
forever, it doesn’t last too long.
— kenne
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Does It Matter . . . 3 comments
Saguaro Cactus In Sabino Canyon — Black & White Image by kenne
“Does it matter whether one is required to complete the work
or whether one is free to desist from the work
if you must meet a final art that certainly you did not make?”
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“Philosophical problems are conceptual confusions
that arise when a form of utterance appropriate
to one mode of discourse is mistakenly used in the wrong context
Confusions must be unpicked employing ordinary uses of language.”
— from Tom Turner’s Notes
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