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Capturing The Moment — Just Like The White-Winged Dove 2 comments

One of the signs of spring in the Sonoran Desert is the return of the white-winged doves. — Image by kenne

Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she’s singing
Who who who
Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she’s singing
Oh baby oh said oh

And the days go by
Like a strand in the wind
In the web that is my own
I begin again
Said to my friend, baby
Nothin’ else mattered

He was no more than a baby then
Well he seemed broken hearted
Something within him
But the moment that I first laid
Eyes on him all alone
On the edge of seventeen

Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she’s singing
Oh baby oh said oh
Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she’s singing
Oh baby oh said oh

I went today maybe I will go again
Tomorrow
And the music there it was hauntingly
Familiar
And I see you doing
What I try to do for me
With the words from a poet
And the voice from a choir
And a melody nothing else mattered

The clouds never expect it
When it rains
But the sea changes colors
But the sea
Does not change
And so with the slow graceful flow
Of age
I went forth with an age old
Desire to please
On the edge of seventeen

Well then suddenly
There was no one left standing
In the hall yeah yeah
In a flood of tears
That no one really ever heard fall at all
Oh I went searchin’ for an answer,
Up the stairs and down the hall
Not to find an answer
Just to hear the call
Of a nightbird singing
Come away come away

Well I hear you in the morning
And I hear you
At nightfall
Sometime to be near you
Is to be unable to hear you
My love
I’m a few years older than you

Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she’s singing
Oh baby oh said oh

(Click here to listen to “edge of seventeen”)

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Posted March 11, 2013 by kenneturner in Capturing the Moment, Information, Music, Nature, Photography

Tagged with Birds, Doves, edge of seventeen, Entertainment, Fleetwood Mac, Just like the white winged dove, Love, Music, Nature, Relationships, Singing, Stevie Nicks, White-winged Dove

Life Is A Dove of Painted Colors Leave a comment

Life Is A Dove of Painted Colors — Image by kenne

Life

Turned around,
Here am I.
Knowing how,
Not the why.

Young in heart
Old in age.
Feeling the itch,
Pacing the cage.

Inner peace,
Knowing the thou.
Learning to write
Thesis of now.

Turned around,
Found love.
Living the moment,
Free as a dove.

Still learning,
When to talk.
Listening for,
Beat of the walk.

Reality is now,
Truth in the heart.
Singing the knowledge,
Requiem to smart.

Turned around,
Found beauty in art.
Traveling the future,
With Dylan and Descartes.

— kenne

Posted June 20, 2012 by kenneturner in Art, Information, Life, Nature, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry

Tagged with Dylan, White-winged Dove

Capturing The Moment — A White-Winged Sentry Leave a comment

Images by kenne

This white-winged dove makes his presence known — among the morning’s first sounds and late day watch over our patio. It’s so nice to share the same space!

On The Wings Of The White Winged Dove (kenneturner.wordpress.com)
To the end of the age (bigskyken.wordpress.com)

Posted May 1, 2012 by kenneturner in Capturing the Moment, Information, Life, Nature, Photography

Tagged with Sonoran Desert, White-winged Dove

Capturing The Moment — The Arizona State Flower Graces The Spring Desert 5 comments

Last Friday I had planned on hiking up to Seven Falls, but while driving to the Sabino Canyon Center, I decided to walk the trails near the center to photography the saguaro cactus in bloom.

While some saguaros may not yet have buds many do and are blooming daily. Now that most of the desert’s wildflowers have come and gone, these beautiful cactus blossoms are the current desert flower show.

These creamy-white, 3-inch-wide flowers with yellow centers usually bloom May and June. However, like most of the Sonoran Desert flowers this year, the blooming season has been much earlier.

Clustered near the ends of branches, the blossoms open during cooler desert nights, during which time the blossoms are visited by nectar-loving bats.

Each flower will bloom only once, closing by the next midday.

Before closing by midday the white-winged dove is a primary pollinator, along with the gila woodpecker and the gilded flicker.

On The Wings Of The White Winged Dove (kenneturner.wordpress.com)
Blooming at 70: an interview with a Giant Saguaro (kenneturner.wordpress.com)

Posted April 24, 2012 by kenneturner in Education, Information, Life, Nature, Photography

Tagged with Gila Woodpecker, Gilded Flicker, Sabino Canyon, Saguaro, Santa Catalina Mountains, Sonoran Desert, White-winged Dove

On The Wings Of The White Winged Dove 6 comments

White Winged Dove — Image by kenne

There are many things special about this time of year in the Sonoran Desert, one is the return of the white winged dove. The return of this beautiful bird coincides with the with the flowering of the saguaro cactus, which makes it an important pollinator and seed dispenser for this important Sonoran Desert plant.