Archive for the ‘Tucson Arizona’ Tag
Aspen Loop On Mt. Lemmon (08/02/13) — Image by kenne
These are amazing: each
Joining a neighbor, as though speech
Were a still performance.
Arranging by chance
To meet as far this morning
From the world as agreeing
With it, you and I
Are suddenly what the trees try
To tell us we are:
That their merely being there
Means something; that soon
We may touch, love, explain.
And glad not to have invented
Such comeliness, we are surrounded:
A silence already filled with noises,
A canvas on which emerges
A chorus of smiles, a winter morning.
Placed in a puzzling light, and moving,
Our days put on such reticence
These accents seem their own defense.
— John Ashbery
“Written in 1948 when Ashbery was only 21 and a senior at Harvard College, this brief lyric has everything that his later, much longer, poems will advance. It is a love poem that never mentions love directly, but a feeling of being in love infuses the way the speaker sees, feels, and thinks about everything. It makes him feel both small and big, a tiny piece of a greater universe, but nonetheless connected to a world full of mystery and grandeur. A sense of the universe comes from gazing up at those huge trees from the ground while in love and remembering the immensity of that experience of feeling and thinking.” Source: Publishers Weekley
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Balanced Stones — Photo-Artistry by kenne
● relax
● don’t compete
● always respect nature
● be patient and you will get there
● be conscious, rocks can harm you and others
● go new ways, boost your creativity
● let go when its time to
● push your limits
● never give up
● enjoy the art
Source: http://www.gravitymeditation.com/
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Sheltered In Place Art — Photo-Artistry by kenne
one day in the future
I will start a writing
“Once upon a time in
COVID-19 America.”
I will write about
how the pandemic
without warning
changed how we live —
how we make use of time
more time reading poetry
more time writing poetry
more time listening to music.
less time to be with friends
hiking the mountain trails
less time traveling to
vacation with family.
the pandemic lingers on
a time of more and less
a time when nature reminds
us of the need to work together.
over the last three months
I take more still-life
and landscape photos more
of our home surroundings.
— kenne
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Pearl-Bordered Fritillary Butterflies On Mt. Lemmon (07/08/13) — Image by kenne
I’m posting this Image from July 2013, because of the Bighorn Fire,
it’s not likely to see them this summer on Mt. Lemmon.
— kenne
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Giant Swallowtail (Tanuri Ridge)– Image by kenne
It is not explanations that carry us forward,
it is our will to proceed.
— Paulo Coelho
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Anna’s Hummingbird — Image by kenne
I saw a Peacock, with a fiery tail,
I saw a Blazing Comet, drop down hail,
I saw a Cloud, with Ivy circled round,
I saw a sturdy Oak, creep on the ground,
I saw a Ant swallow up a Whale,
I saw a raging Sea, brim full of Ale,
I saw a Venice Glass, Sixteen foot deep,
I saw a well, full of mens tears that weep,
I saw their eyes, all in a flame of fire,
I saw a House, as big as the Moon and higher,
I saw the Sun, even in the midst of night,
I saw the man, that saw this wondrous sight.
— Anonymous (400 Year-Old Nonsense Poem)
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Smoke and Haze In the Catalina Foothills — Photo-Artistry by kenne
We must make the most of life’s ups and down
when downs seem to overwhelm
do everything to lift up life through images
revealing its most brilliants.
— kenne
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Bighorn Fire, July 1, 2020 (Tanuri Drive/River Road entrance to Tanuri Ridge) — Photo-Artistry by kenne
The Bighorn Fire continues to burn in the Santa Catalina Mountains this morning. The fire that started June 5 on the western edge of the Pusch Ridge Wilderness burning 118,370 acres straight across the mountains to Redington Pass on the eastside. The fire is now 54% contained. The Northern Rockies Incident Management Team has done an outstanding job protecting all “valued” areas. So far, no structures have been lost, and large wildlife continues to be spotted moving toward lower elevations. Smaller animals will tend to go underground.
— kenne
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Silverpuff Blossom and Honey Bee — Image by kenne
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Rufous Hummingbird — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Oh little bird, little bird
Come fly by my head
So I can hear your wings
Churn the air around me.
— kenne
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Butterfly Royalty — Photo-Artistry by kenne
I say it’s a monarch
you say it’s a queen.
Either way,
both are beautiful
and butterfly royalty.
— kenne
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Lightning Struck The Pusch Ridge Area Causing The Bighorn Fire — Image by kenne
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