This summer, the Big Horn Fire caused so much damage to the National Forest
in the Santa Catalina Mountains remains closed to the public. Therefore,
hiking and photographing wildflowers in the Catalinas will not be in 2020,
which provides a good excuse to revisit some wildflower photos over the past ten summers.
Field of Western Sneezeweed Along Mt. Lemmon’s Meadow Trail (08/21/12) — Image by kenne
Western Sneezeweed On Mt. Lemmon — Image by kenne
We tend to seek captivity
because we are used to seeing freedom
as something that has neither frontiers
nor responsibilities.
— Paulo Coelho
Bee On Sneezeweed, Cool Morning On Mt. Lemmon — Images by kenne
The Mountain
The mountain sat upon the plain
In his eternal chair,
His observation omnifold,
His inquest everywhere.
The seasons prayed around his knees,
Like children round a sire:
Grandfather of the days is he,
Of dawn the ancestor.
— Emily Dickinson
Western Sneezeweed On Mt. Lemmon — Image by kenne
I’ve lived at Cold Mountain — how many autumns.
Alone, I hum a song — utterly without regret.
Hungry, I eat one grain of Immortal-medicine
Mind solid and sharp; leaning on stone.
— Gary Snyder
Mountain Wildflowers — Images by kenne
— Gerald De Nerval
Western Sneezeweed Photo-Artistry by kenne
Western Sneezeweed Photo-Artistry by kenne
— Shel Silverstein
Bee On Western Sneezeweed Wildflower — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Painted Lady Butterfly on Western Sneezeweed on The Lemmon Meadow Trail, Mount Lemmon, AZ. — Images by kenne
— kenne
Painted Lady — Image by kenne
The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough.
— Rabindranath Tagore
A Peace Image for This Peaceful Sunday — kenne
— Albert Einstein
Wildflower Art — Image by kenne
Hardship In Houston
Brighten by a wildflower
Lighting up each day.
— kenne
Painted Lady On Western Sneezeweed — Image by kenne
In the meadow of the valley,
Where wild flowers are roaming free.
There are multitudes of colors
And their backdrop forest greens.
— from The Meadow by Robert Edgar Burns
Image by kenne
“. . . again I encounter” — Image by kenne
— kenne
