Ragged Rock Flower (Crossosoma bigelovii) — Image by kenne
I photograph nature because nature touches me.
— kenne
Archive for the ‘Ventana Canyon’ Tag
Ragged Rock Flower (Crossosoma bigelovii) Leave a comment
Hiking In A Light Drizzle 1 comment
Ventana Canyon — Photo-Artistry by kenne
A light drizzle fail
We move quickly down the trail
On a late fall day.
— kenne
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Hiking Below The Ridge 1 comment
Hiking Below The Ridge — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Tropical storm rains
On mountains surrounding us —
A moment of green.
— kenne
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Ventana Canyon Panorama (February 24, 2017) — Images by kenne
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Ventana Canyon — A Hike In The Canyon 1 comment
Ventana Canyon — Image by kenne
Looking back down from the Ventana Canyon trail with much climbing to do until reaching Maiden Pools.
“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”
— John Muir
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Capturing The Moment — Caliche Globemallow Leave a comment
Caliche Globemallow (Ventana Canyon, February 26, 2016) — Images by kenne
How one encounters reality is a choice.
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Capturing The Moment — Mexican Vervain Leave a comment
Mexican Vervain (Ventana Canyon to Maiden Pools Hike, February 26, 2016) — Images by kenne
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Only Earth. Earth.
Earth for trembling tablecloths,
for a cloud’s vicious eyeball,
for recent wounds and dampened thoughts.
Earth for everything the flees from earth.
— from Earth and Moon by Federico Garcia Lorca
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Coral Bean Legume Pods 1 comment
Coral Bean (Erythrina herbacea) Legume Pods Image by kenne
All parts of the coral bean plant are poisonous, but the red beans, which is how the plant gets its name, are by far the most highly toxic. This plant contains Erythrina alkaloids, which include the curare-like beta-erythroidine. This plant is common to many of the mountain foothills surrounding Tucson. These pods were photographed in the Maiden Pools area of Ventana Canyon, February 20, 2015.
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Capturing The Moment — Ragged Rock Flowers 3 comments
Ragged Rock Flowers (February 20, 2015) — Images by kenne
This beautiful flower grows on a scrub that is generally found growing out of cracks in cliff rocks often near canyon streams. The flower blossom looks somewhat like a citrus blossom and even has somewhat of a citrus smell. The seeds of the plant are rich in oils love by ants, which leads to a theory why the seeds end up in the cracks of rocks. The cast-off seeds sometimes land in cracks where germination takes place.
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Ventana Canyon Hikers On Canvas by kenne
Ventana Canyon On Canvas by kenne
Sing and dance and be joyous,
but let each one also be alone.
Even as the strings of the lute are alone,
through they quiver to the same music.
— Kahlil Gibran
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Agave Squeeze: Life In A Split-Rock Crack (February 20, 2015) — Image by kenne
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Listen, My Child, To The Silence 3 comments
A Couple Takes In The View Along The Trail — Image by kenne
The Silence
Listen, my child, to the silence.
An undulating silence,
a silence
that turns valleys and echoes slippery,
that bends foreheads
toward the ground.
— Federico García Lorca
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“We shall not cease from exploration, . . . “ 2 comments
Ventana Canyon Panorama — Image by kenne
We shall not cease from exploration,
and the end of all our exploring
will be to arrive where we started
and know the place for the first time.
— T. S. Eliot
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Even Heaven Has Weeds 2 comments
“Even Heaven Has Weeds” — Image by kenne
Even heaven has weeds —
Without the unwanted
I wouldn’t want to be there,
Assuming I have a choice.
— kenne
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Morning Shadows In The Canyon 5 comments
Morning Shadows In Ventana Canyon — Images by kenne
Don’t tell me the sun is shining,
show me the shadows in the morning light.
I learn from the shadows,
which delivers the dawn’s music.
The shadows have taught me
the importance of being different.
With the music and being different
providing the power to go deep within.
Together I hear the words
that guide me through the day.
— kenne
- Between Light And Shadows – Making Something Visible That Might Otherwise Be Invisible (kenneturner.com)
- Hiking Ventana Canyon – Four Decembers Ago (kenneturner.com)
- Alone In The Night Shadows (kenneturner.com)
- Alone In The Night Shadows II (kenneturner.com)
- Shadows (latrosa.wordpress.com)
