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Mr. T with 2nd Grade Students In Sabino Canyon (January 15, 2015) — Image by Phil Bentley
A great way to stay young is to spend a morning with five second grade students in Sabino Canyon on your seventy-four birthday. Today’s program, titled “Back to the Past”, was about the Hohokum peoples of the Sonoran Desert that use to inhabit the Tucson basin hundreds of years ago — covering such topics as hunting, gathering, farming, water, shelter, art and sports.
At one point I was talking about how the Hohokum dug canals from rivers to grow crops.
One of the students asked, “What’s a canal?”
To which I replied, “It’s like a ditch, channel through which water runs from the river to the crops.”
The little girl said, “Oh, like a TV channel?” — “Out of the mouths of babes!”
A boy told me how he liked the hike and going by the dam, but added:
“I really don’t like how we stopped every 20 seconds, but I had a great time.” (Think he was telling me that I talk too much?)
Another great day outdoors with nature talking about the past with the future.
“. . . that fruitful miracle of communication in the midst of solitude.”
— Marcel Proust
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This morning was as if we had brought the Seattle area fog and drizzle to Tucson. Fog, like snow, can be a real big deal in the desert, making for a pleasant change.
Meydenbauer Bay On Lake Washington, Bellevue, WA — Images by kenne
Tanuri Ridge Patio View (West)
Tanuri Ridge Circle View (East)
Desert Fog
The sliding doors opened to fog,
rendering the mountains a negative opaque.
The normal morning quietness
seemed even more somber,
not in a gloomy way
with its limited view,
instead consoling vanishing
dreams with an attentive hug
having loved once in splendor,
how tender is the morning.
— kenne
(Go To kenneturner.com to see all the “Becoming is Superior to Being” Postings.)
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Beautiful Grass Meadow Along The Trail To Thimble Peak (In the distance to the left.) — Panoramic Image by kenne
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Painted Lady Butterfly (Vanessa cardui) — Image by kenne
- Painted Lady (forestgardenblog.wordpress.com)
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“The Trail Spinner” — Images by kenne
Kristen is hiking the Aspen Draw on Mt. Lemmon while using a hand-spinner. Little hand devices, such as this one, have been used for thousands of years to spin fiber into yarn.
— kenne
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Two gentle old giants
born in the caring shadows
of a nursing tree.
Protected for years
only to outlive their nurse
two towers as one.
Reaching to the sky
sharing the good times and bad
In their silent talk.
Each bonding for life
in their spring bonnets of white
sharing life’s cycles.
As the years go by
well over a century
many suns and stars.
Aging gracefully
one bearing more than her peer
showing signs of time.
One still standing tall
holding out a caring arm
together as one.
She ain’t to heavy
Doesn’t weigh me down at all
She is my sister
Have you hugged your saguaro today?
kenne
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A Tucson Sunset — Image by kenne
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Sunrise In Pima Canyon — Image by kenne
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