Archive for the ‘Tucson Arizona’ Tag
Palo Verde Trees In the Sabino Canyon — Image by kenne
The palo verde tree is Arizona’s state tree, and rightfully so since once established, these trees truly need no
supplemental water to live. The tree’s bark is green and can photosynthesize something that in most plants,
only leaves do. This characteristic also allows the leaves to be very small and drop off during extreme drought conditions.
In the Sonoran desert, there are four types of palo verde trees. The above image illustrates two; the Blue Palo Verde
on the left and the Foothills Palo Verde on the right. The Blue Palo Verde will generally bloom first in the spring,
followed by the Foothills a few weeks later. During April, you can see these trees blooming everywhere in Tucson.
— kenne
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A Grassy Meadow Known as Thimble Flat (Thimble Peak On the Left) — Image by kenne
Thimble Flat
We gathered early one November morning,
now we were going to turn words into action
by hiking six miles to climb Thimble Peak.
Starting at the Gordon Hirabayashi Campground,
we hiked the Sycamore Canyon trail to the
Bear Canyon trail, then leaving the trail at a flat
grassy meadow called Thimble Flat to traverse
around a deep gulley, making our way through rocks
and brush to the base of Thimble Peak, where we paused
to determine the best way to climb this pinnacle on a
mountain ridge, overlooking Tucson known as Thimble Peak.
— kenne
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Santa Cruz River South of Tucson — Image by kenne
We live in a land
where the water
runs dry,
the supply
no longer sustainable
from the sky.
There was a time
when nature
met the need
until it met
the adversary,
greed.
— kenne
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Esperero Trail Wildflowers In Sabino Canyon (Spring 2013) — Image by kenne
What lies in the heart
of a hiker is that a
spiritual landscape exists
within the visual landscape
something fleeting in the land,
a moment when shape, color,
and movement intensify
revealing something sacred
leading to another level of reality.
— kenne
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Cactus Blossoms — Image by kenne
Even though the southwest is experiencing a mega drought, nature finds a way to continue life cycles.
“Drought conditions in the West, particularly the desert Southwest, have intensified over the past 45 years,
with less precipitation and longer and more frequent dry spells between storms. The Southwestern deserts
that include Tucson were slammed the hardest by far.” Arizona Daily Star
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Rock Hibiscus on Hope Camp Trail — Image by kenne
A Rock Hibiscus
Almost abandoned by spring
Lonely on the trail.
— kenne
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Desert Chicory & Seed Pod — Image by kenne
Frequent throughout the Sonoran Desert in Arizona and Mexico on desert flats,
along wash banks and on rocky slopes.
Mature seeds bear a plume of feathery bristles at the apex.
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Spring Wildflowers in the Sonoran Desert — Image by kenne
A very dry spring
Some wildflowers beat the odds
Flaunting the experts.
— kenne
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San Xavier del Bac Mission Window — Image by kenne
Silhouette In The Window
He sits in the dark
A silhouette in the light
Shinning through God’s window
My subject of admiration
A glowing image in the darkness
Only to become the stuff of dreams
— kenne
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Borderland Wildflowers — Image by kenne
Ask the spring,
in its beauty
no stranger
to this land.
Who is the man
pale and bloody
his wounds from
miles of walking?
— kenne
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Sonoran Sunset # 3931 — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Sonoran sunset
Many colors in the sky
Shining through the clouds
Eleven years of sunsets
Seen here in Tucson.
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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Desert Grass — Photo-Artistry by kenne
In the grass
the cactus, with hair-like spines,
irritate the skin upon touch.
Spring flowers have withered again
in silence, the desert awaits
the hours of great sorrow
and travail.
— kenne
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Chaos — Abstract Art by kenne
I’m not sure the words ocean and sea
mean the same to you and me.
Ninety-five percent universal confusion,
dark matter was born with the legitimacy
of an onion, the roar of a lion.
I sit in the rumble seat of judgment,
I damn myself for entertainment,
for wasting time on hopeless entertainment.
I am guilty of snarling lines, Gordian
knots in my “Shakespeare” fishing reels.
I must untangle this because eels
have hearts like us. The enemy
is symmetry.
In the spring of content,
I trust glorious chaos. I smell in disorder
the outhouse of order.
— from Chaos by Stanley Moss
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Morning In The Canyon (Pima Canyon) — Image by kenne
Daylight comes earlier
with each passing day
I dress in translucent light
as the fading shadows
of night slowly move on.
I will leave soon to hike
in a nearby canyon
still, I pause taking time
to read poetry before leaving
preparing my thoughts
to be with nature.
— kenne
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