Welcome Home– Image by kenne
And as I turn home where
I know you are already awake,
Wandering slowly through the house
Searching for me, I can suddenly
Hear my own footsteps crunching
The simple astonishing news
That we are here,
Yes, we are still here.
— from “Dawn Walk” by Edward Hirsch
Painter Lady — Photo-Artistry by kenne
— kenne
Sabino Canyon Crawler — Image by kenne
After many years of noise and smoke, a shuttle service for visitors debuted Saturday.
The emission-free electric shuttles will operate hourly on the Sabino Canyon route between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.
The service eventually will have five of the open-air vehicles capable of carrying up to 60 passengers.
— kenne
Cactus Flower Color Fusion — Photo-Artistry by kenne
— Theodore Gericault
Tucson Basin As Viewed From The Bug Springs Trail In The Santa Catalina Mountains — Image by kenne
— kenne
Richardson’s Geranium Wildflower — Photo-Artistry by kenne
If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader,
then as a writer, it is an extension of my sympathies to
other selves, other domains, other dreams, other worlds, other territories.
— Susan Sontag
(I’m currently reading Benjamin Moser’s latest book, “Sontag — Her Life and Work.)
Bougainvillea — Image by kenne
We all love the beautiful Bougainvillea blossoms. They add a lot of color to the Tucson landscape. However, maintaining them can be very frustrating. For starters, they have very long thorns, so pruning must be done very carefully, and they will die at the first frost, which can happen easily since we live near a wash allowing the cold night air to drop lower than the surrounding areas.
He loves bougainvilleas
but hated the thorns.
He wanted to know
why all beauty came
with such pain and
was it as answer less as
where eggs came from
when life is all about the eggs,
“because we need the eggs.”
