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Desert Broomrape 1 comment

Desert Broomrape (Orobanche cooperi),
also known as Cooper’s broomrape, spike broomrape, and burroweed strangler.
Because the Desert Broomrape lacks leaves and chlorophyll,
it gets its nutrients from a host plant and is therefore a parasite.

Images by kenne

Posted March 20, 2015 by kenneturner in Capturing the Moment, Education, Information, Nature, Photography

Tagged with Arizona, D800, Desert Broomrape, Hiking, King Canyon Trail, Parasite, Sonoran Desert, Tucson Arizona, Tucson Mountains

Capturing The Moment — Rock Hibiscus 6 comments

rock hibiscus (1 of 1) blog

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rock hibiscus (1 of 1)-2 blog Rock Hibiscus — Images by kenne

“It’s very difficult to look at the World
and into your heart at the same time.
In between, a life has passed.”

― Jim Harrison

Posted March 20, 2015 by kenneturner in Capturing the Moment, Education, Nature, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry

Tagged with Arizona, D800, Flor, Jim Harrison, King Canyon Trail, Outdoors, Rock Hibiscus, Sonoran Desert, Tucson Arizona, Tucson Mountains

Sunset Signals 1 comment

Sunset (1 of 1)-3 blog Sunset Signals — Image by kenne

Radio signals

Transmit from the mountain top

Smoke of yesterdays.

— kenne

Posted March 19, 2015 by kenneturner in Art, Information, Life, Nature, Photography, Poetry

Tagged with Arizona, D800, Haiku, Radio Signals, Smoke of yesterdays, Sonoran Desert, Sunset, Sunset Signals, Tucson Arizona, Tucson Mountains

Desert Wildflowers: I Declare — A Great Time Of The Year For Hiking 3 comments

I declare

Cue the sun
I declare life.

Cue the flowers
I declare spring.

Cue the children
I declare love.

I declare,
Isn’t it beautiful?

I declare!
I declare!

— kenne

(CLICK ON ANY OF THE TILED IMAGES TO VIEW LARGER IMAGE IN A SLIDESHOW FORMAT.)

Wildflower Images by kenne

The weather here is windy, balmy, sometimes wet.
Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over the place,
trees leafing out, streams gushing down from the mountains.
Great time of year for hiking, camping, exploring, sleeping under the new moon and the old stars.
At dawn and at evening we hear the coyotes howling with excitement – mating season.
And lots of fresh rabbit meat hopping about to feed the young ones with.

— Edward Abbey

Posted March 18, 2015 by kenneturner in Capturing the Moment, Information, Nature, Photography

Tagged with Arizona, D800, Desert, desert wildflowers, Edward Abbey, Flowers, Hiking, I Declare, King Canyon Trail, Outdoors, Postcards from Ed, Sonoran Desert, Tucson Arizona, Tucson Mountains

Today The Desert Mariposa Lily Is My Irish Peace Lily Leave a comment

Desert Mariposa Lily — Images by kenne

The Meeting of the Waters
by
Thomas Moore

There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet
As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet;
Oh! the last rays of feeling and life must depart,
Ere the bloom of that valley shall fade from my heart.

Yet it was not that nature had shed o’er the scene
Her purest of crystal and brightest of green;
‘Twas not her soft magic of streamlet or hill,
Oh! no, — it was something more exquisite still.

‘Twas that friends, the beloved of my bosom, were near,
Who made every dear scene of enchantment more dear,
And who felt how the best charms of nature improve,
When we see them reflected from looks that we love.

Sweet vale of Avoca! how calm could I rest
In thy bosom of shade, with the friends I love best,
Where the storms that we feel in this cold world should cease,
And our hearts, like thy waters, be mingled in peace.

Posted March 17, 2015 by kenneturner in Art, Capturing the Moment, Education, Information, Life, Nature, Photography

Tagged with Arizona, D800, Desert Flora, Hiking, Sonoran Desert, St. Patrick Day, The Meeting of the Waters, Thomas Moore, Tucson Arizona, Tucson Mountains

Hiking King Canyon Trail To Wasson Peak 3 comments

Wasson Peak Group (1 of 1) blog

(CLICK ON A TILED IMAGE TO SEE LARGER VIEW IN A SLIDESHOW FORMAT.)

Some images of the SCVN lead hike to Wasson Peak via King Canyon Trail, Hugh Norris Trail, Sendero Esperanza Trail, and Gould Mine Trail that took place last Friday (March 13, 2015). The trails form an eight mile loop with an elevation change 1,800 ft. from the King Canyon trailhead. Each year in March we schedule this hike because of the abundance of beautiful wildflowers in the Tucson Mountains.

kenne

Brittlebush (1 of 1)-2 blog Images by kenne

“We don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”
― David Brower

Posted March 16, 2015 by kenneturner in Information, Life, Nature, Photography

Tagged with Arizona, D800, David Brower, Gould Mine Trail, Hiking, Hugh Norris Trail, King Canyon, King Canyon Trail, Sendero Esperanza Trail, Sonoran Desert, Tucson Arizona, Tucson Mountains, Wasson Peak, Wildflowers

Desert Panorama Leave a comment

Panorama2 art blog Desert Panorama — Image by kenne

Posted March 16, 2015 by kenneturner in Art, Nature, Photography

Tagged with Arizona, Computer Painting, Desert Panorama, Hiking, Sonoran Desert, Tucson Arizona, Tucson Mountains

Poppies Along The King Canyon Trail 4 comments

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Poppies (1 of 1)-8 blog Poppies Along the King Canyon Trail (March 13, 2015) — Images by kenne

Try as one may

to photograph

the desert spring

having lost the

third, forth,

fifth — God knows

how many dimensions

somewhere on the

mountain trails.

— kenne

Posted March 15, 2015 by kenneturner in Art, Information, Poetry

Tagged with Arizona, D800, Golden Mexican Poppies, King Canyon Trail, Poppies, Saguaro National Park - West, SCVN Friday Hikes, Sonoran Desert, Tucson Arizona, Tucson Mountains

Hiking In The Tucson Mountains 2 comments

Tucson Mountains (1 of 1)-2 blog framed Looking South Along The King Canyon Trail In The Tucson Mountains (March 13, 2015) — Image by kenne

Posted March 15, 2015 by kenneturner in Art, Information, Life, Nature, Photography

Tagged with Arizona, D800, Hiking, King Canyon Trail, Outdoors, Sonoran Desert, The King Canyon Trail, Tucson Arizona, Tucson Mountains

Panorama Image From Wasson Peak 1 comment

Panorama (1 of 1) blog Looking East Atop Wasson Peak In The Tucson Mountains (L/R Tortolita Mountains, Santa Catalina Mountains & Rincon Mountains)
Interstate 10 going north through Marana, Oro Valley and north Tucson– Panorama by kenne

Posted March 14, 2015 by kenneturner in Education, Information, Photography

Tagged with Arizona, D800, Hiking, Rincon Mountains, Santa Catalina Mountains, Sonoran Desert, Tortolita Mountains, Tucson Arizona, Tucson Mountains, Wasson Peak

Three Sunset Images 4 comments

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Sunset (1 of 1)-2 art blog Sunset Computer Paintings by kenne

Posted February 28, 2015 by kenneturner in Art, Capturing the Moment, Life, Nature, Photography

Tagged with Arizona, D800, Sonoran Desert, Sunset, Sunsets, Tucson Arizona, Tucson Mountains

At Day’s End 4 comments

Sunset (1 of 1) blog Sunset Over Tucson Mountains (January 18, 2015) — Image by kenne

I pause not to wait,

But to gather my thoughts.

Waiting is too passive —

I’m not waiting for my turn.

— kenne

Posted January 20, 2015 by kenneturner in Information, Life, Nature, Photography, Poetry

Tagged with Arizona, D800, Sonoran Desert, Sunset, Tucson Arizona, Tucson Mountains

Cholla Forest Below Panther Peak Leave a comment

Pather Peak Cholla Forest Panorama (1 of 1) blog Cholla Forest Below Panther Peak — Panorama Image by kenne

Light shines in darkness.

Frontiers open to fresh vistas.

Love follows hard upon enmity.

From what is hidden comes revelation.

— from The Timeless Myths, by Alexander Eliot

We have been gone from Tucson (in Houston and New Orleans) since December 23rd and only one day of sun, Christmas Day. Now delayed by icy west Texas roads, we are leaving this morning. Here’s a link to photos of a rare snow fall in Tucson yesterday. http://tucson.com/gallery/news/photos-snowfall-in-tucson-arizona-california/collection_39b2a35e-9131-11e4-abc1-3307652d29f8.html#0

kenne

Posted January 2, 2015 by kenneturner in Art, Information, Nature, Photography

Tagged with Arizona, Cholla Forest, Hiking, panorama image, Panther Peak, Sonoran Desert, Timeless Myths, Tucson, Tucson Arizona, Tucson Mountains

Old Pueblo On A Cloudy Day 2 comments

View from Guthrie Peak Trail, Catalina Highway to the Right, Down Through Sycamore Canyon, Thumble Peak, Blackett’s Ridge, Tucson,
The Tucson Mountains with The Quinlan Mountains on the Tohono O’odham Nation In The Distance.
— Image by kenne