Cooper’s Hawk On Patio Wall — Image by kenne
Cooper’s Hawk — Video by kenne
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A Cooper’s Hawk Visits The Patio 4 comments
Solvang Danish Days 2024 Leave a comment
Solvang Danish Days 2024 — Images and Video by kenne
Each wind that sighs from Danish waves
Through Norway’s woods of pine,
Of thy pale lips an answer craves:
Where wast thou, brother mine?
I fought for both a deadly fight;
In vain to spy thy prow
O’er belt and fiord I strained my sight:
My fatherland with graves grew white:
My brother, where wast thou?
— from A Brother In Need by Henrik Ibsen
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Hearst Castle (La Cuesta Encantada) 5 comments
During our time on California’s Central Coast, we included a scheduled tour of the Hearst Castle known formally as
La Cuesta Encantada is a historic estate in San Simeon.
Video by kenne
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Texas Blues Guitarist Carolyn Wonderland 3 comments
Carolyn Wonderland (June 2009) — Photo Collage by kenne
“I always kind of look at it like this, if I’m in a room full of guitarists, I’m the singer.
And if I’m in a room full of singers, I’m the guitarist.
And I’m happy that way no matter what because I can be useful.
All I want to do is play music, play the songs.”
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A Clock Stopped 4 comments
Wall Clock — Photo-artistry by kenne
A Clock stopped –
Not the Mantel’s –
Geneva’s farthest skill
Can’t put the puppet bowing
That just now dangled still –
An awe came on the Trinket!
The Figures hunched -with pain –
Then quivered out of Decimals –
Into Degreeless noon –
It will not stir for Doctors –
This Pendulum of snow –
The Shopman importunes it –
While cool – concernless No
Nods from the Gilded pointers –
Nods from Seconds slim –
Decades of Arrogance between
The Dial life –
And Him.
— Emily Dickinson
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A Tuichi River Foggy Morning 2 comments
Foggy Morning Breaking On The Tuichi River In The Bolivian Amazon (09/05/19)— HDR Image by kenne
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Songs With The Word ‘Tucson’ In Them Leave a comment
Yesterday the Arizona Daily Star published an article titled “31 songs that have the word ‘Tucson’ in them.” Of course, it go my attention
so I read the article figuring that one of my favorite singer-songwriters would be included in the 31 songs, Tom Russell, who penned
The Ballad of Edward Abbey — he was not. I guess the list was not intended to be comprehensive.
It was in the town of Tucson in Nineteen Eighty-Three
A man named Edward Abbey come a walking up to me
He pulled his cigar from his mouth, said, «I smell lawyers here»
The politician, running-dogs, they crawled away in fear
Singing do-ra-do
Singing do-ra-day
Ed walked across the desert at least a thousand times
He spoke with javelina, slept ‘neath piñon pine
And if he saw a billboard there, he’d chop that bastard down
Said, if a man can’t piss in his own front yard, he’d never keep close to town
Singing do-ra-do
Singing do-ra-day
Lord, I wish Edward Abbey were walking round today
Ed had a taste for women, in fact he married quite a few
He said, «I’d fall in love, boys, but I’m only passing through
You know I like ’em all, boys, and some more than the rest
I’ve tried my hand at monogamy, now I’m off to save the west
Singing do-ra-do
Singing do-ra-day
Ed died one day at sundown in his Tucson riding shack
They wrapped him in a sleeping bag and drove him way out back
Beneath the wild saguaro, the coyotes chewed his bones
And on a hidden marker, was ‘No Comment’, carved in stone
Singing do-ra-do
Singing do-ra-day
Yeah, I wish Edward Abbey were walking round today
Now I’m living in the desert, but the town is a-closing in
Those cracker box developments, Ed would call a sin
We stole this land from the Mexican and now we’ll sell it back
And they’ll live like mortgage prisoners in those goddamn housing tracts
Tell me, who votes for the mountain lion, tell me, who votes for the fox
Who votes for the spotted owl who hides there in the rocks
I wish that Ed would come again with a chainsaw in his hand
And carve all up those housing tracts and take on back the land
Singing do-ra-do
Singing do-ra-day
Yeah, I wish Edward Abbey were walking round today
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Windy Point Vista 1 comment
Panorama Video by kenne
This is a panoramic view of the Tucson basin with a segment of the Catalina highway below that leads up to Mt. Lemmon.
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Curve-billed Thrasher At Patio Fountain Leave a comment
Bath time for this curve-billed thrasher — Image & Video by kenne
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Celebrating Jeri And Ron’s Golden Anniversary 3 comments
Palm Springs California (June 17, 2022) — Image by kenne
The family gathered in Palm Springs to celebrate the Golden Anniversary of Jeri and Ron Roelling.
Golden Kudos
Another anniversary;
Kudos are now due
To this radiant, golden couple:
Your 50th is quite a coup!
You keep on keeping on;
However do you do it?
You make marriage look so easy,
Like there’s really nothing to it.
Congratulations, you two;
We wish you all the best.
May all the years to come
Be just as richly blessed.
— Joanna Fuchs
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Palm Springs Aerial Tramway 3 comments
Looking Down Through Chino Canyon To The Coachella Valley Below (Greater Palm Springs) — Image by kenne
Palm Springs Aerial Tramway — Photo Essay by kenne
(Click On Any Image To See In A Slideshow Format
The Palm Springs Aerial Tramway—the world’s largest rotating tram car—travels over two-and-one-half miles
along the breathtaking cliffs of Chino Canyon, transporting riders to the pristine wilderness of the Mt. San Jacinto
State Park. During a ten-minute journey, tram cars rotate slowly, offering picturesque and spectacular
vistas of the valley floor below. Once reaching the Mountain Station—elevation 8,516 feet—enjoy two restaurants,
observation decks, natural history museum, two documentary theaters, a gift shop, and over 50 miles of hiking trails.
Tramway Video by kenne
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Experiencing the Van Gogh Immersive Exhibit — Scottsdale 1 comment
Experiencing the Van Gogh Immersive Exhibit (Scottsdale, June 15, 2022) — Image by kenne
We have wanted to see the Immersive van Gogh exhibit for some time.
So, since we had planned on attending Jeri and Ron’s 50th Anniversary,
June 16-18 in Palm Springs, we drove up to Scottsdale on the 15.
The exhibition, conceived by Creative Director Mathieu St-Arnaud and his team at Montreal’s
world-renowned Normal Studio, is an immersive experience that features more
than 300 of Vincent Van Gogh’s iconic artworks and takes the art lover
into a three-dimensional world that exhilarates the senses.
“I find comfort in contemplating the sunflowers.”
— Vincent van Gogh
Video by kenne
“I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
— Vincent van Gogh
Sunflowers — Photo-Artistry by kenne
“I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.”
— Vincent van Gogh
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Graduation Pool Party, Atascocita, Texas Leave a comment
The Resendez and Turner Families Hosted a Pool Party for Graduates Katelyn Turner
and Robert Resendez in Atascocita, Texas, May 29, 2022 — Images by kenne
(Click on any image to view in slideshow format.)
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Kae Is Getting More Attention Leave a comment
Kae Tempest — Photo-Artistry by kenne from a Photo by Wolfgang Tillmans
A couple of years ago, I posted: “I’m a new fan of Kae Tempest, an English spoken word performer, poet, recording artist, novelist, and playwright — a great performer by any measure. Then, in January 2022,
I did a post on Kae’s latest book, “On Connections,” in which they extolled the importance of finding meanings in the little things.
Like most people, when I first hear about an artist, I feel like I was the one who discovered the artist.
So, I was both surprised and pleased to learn about Kae’s appearance on Jimmy Fallon’s The Tonight Show this past Monday.
— kenne
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Birding In Ecuador 1 comment
Andean Cockof the Rock — Image by Hugh Poland
In early February, my stepson-in-law went birding in Ecuador. Upon his return to Kingwood, Texas, Hugh put together this trip video.
— kenne
