Bee On Burroweed Among Ferns — Image by kenne
Look, and you will see
Pleasure in flowers today
The desert loves spring.
— kenne
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7 Falls Trail In Bear Canyon (03-20-15) — Image by kenne
After a day’s walk, everything has twice its usual value.
— G.M. Trevelyan
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Spring Wildflowers 2 comments
Spring Wildflowers (Pointed Cats-Eye & Desert Chicory) — Image by kenne
We cannot all see beauty the same way.
— kenne
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Spring Wildflowers — Envisioning the Life Cycles of Flowers and People as Parallel Leave a comment
Spring Wildflowers — Image by kenne
A STROLLING MINSTREL’S BALLARD
OF THE SKULLS AND FLOWERS
Dahlia, Amaryllis, Iris,
Flaunt their fragrance and their flair
As roman candles arc, desirous
To burst new treasures on the air,
Spill out their color and their scent
And whistle down the rambling bee.
When dazzle and pizzazz are spent
And every garden’s luxury
Of blossom’s gone to shreds or hock,
Where is that glamourie and that mask;
When January whips the stalk
What memory stills the rattled husk?
By lurch and stumble, change and growth
Struggling from all fours, we fise
Cranking the backbone up, though loath.
To lift our skull into the skies
Where the lit eye blinks out its longing,
Gathers the world, then from that height
Sends hosts of bright ideas thronging
Like fireflies sparking up the night.
What are the perfume and that pollen
Or all the brain’s fine fireworks worth
Once socket, stalk and spine have fallen
As acrid, black ash drifts to earth?
— W.D. Snodgrass
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Capturing The Moment — Desert Globemallow 2 comments
Desert Globemallow — Image by kenne
Desert wildflowers in the spring
Bring joy to the eye
Responding to the mourning sun
Cresting over the mountain
Opening to a silent knowledge and
A spirit enlightened of itself
To which I contemplate the void.
— kenne
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Capturing The Moment — Wildflowers In Catalina State Park 5 comments
Wildflowers Along Sutherland Trail
Mexican Poppies
Desert Lupines and Mexican Poppies
Desert Lupines
Saguaro Ribs
Desert Lupines and California Poppies
Bee in ChIcory — images by kenne
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My Valentine Wildflower 3 comments
Fairy Duster — Image by kenne
She loves the mystical
power of flowers,
its bloom symbolizing
the human existence,
opening oneself to love.
As spring embraces the desert,
among the first to appear
is the dazzling fairy duster.
Present everywhere —
on hillsides, washes, and grasslands
throughout the Sonoran Desert.
These beautiful flowers
covey a touch of magic,
of having mystical powers,
charming her —
this mystical flower
in a mystical land.
— kenne
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