Esperero Trail Wildflowers In Sabino Canyon (Spring 2013) — Image by kenne
What lies in the heart
of a hiker is that a
spiritual landscape exists
within the visual landscape
something fleeting in the land,
a moment when shape, color,
and movement intensify
revealing something sacred
leading to another level of reality.
— kenne
Canyonlands Wildflowers — Image by kenne
“A flower blooming in the desert proves to the world that adversity,
no matter how great, can be overcome.”
―
Borderland Wildflowers — Image by kenne
— kenne
Lupine In The Desert — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Wildflowers on King Canyon Trail — Images by kenne
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Sutherland Trail (March 27, 2015)– Image by kenne
— kenne
Goodding Verbena — Image by kenne
Pointed Cats-Eye Wildflower Image by kenne
“Even the tiniest of flowers can have the toughest roots.”
― Shannon M Mullen,
A Desert Spring — Desert Chicory & Mexican Poppy — Image by kenne
I Want
all the poppies to bloom
a carpet, bright bed where
you could lie down. And if
I knew where you traveled,
I would cross the river,
climb unraveled banks,
ravines thick with brambles,
and pick their fruit. You might
not know these tangled
arms, but I would bring you
berries, plums, if I knew
your thirst sunk deep as mine.
— Wendy Barker
Desert Rosemallow — Image by kenne
— kenne
Wildflowers on Mt. Lemmon, Santa Catalina Mountains — Images by kenne
What is the late November doing
With the disturbance of the spring
And creatures of the summer heat,
And snowdrops writhing under feet
And hollyhocks that aim too high
Red into grey and tumble down
Late roses filled with early snow?
Thunder rolled by the rolling stars
Simulates triumphal cars
Deployed in constellated wars
Scorpion fights against the sun
Until the Sun and Moon go down
Comets weep and Leonids fly
Hunt the heavens and the plains
Whirled in a vortex that shall bring
The world to that destructive fire
Which burns before the ice-cap reigns
— from Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot
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
Bur Marigold Wildflower (Bidens aurea) Blooms in September and October
in the Santa Catalina Mountains — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Considered the most spectacular of the genus Bidens,
the Bur marigold is not a very common plant.
“Bidens” means “having two teeth,” which references
the hairlike appendages on the fruits.
A deciduous perennial forb.
— Frank S. Rose
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.
Thurber cinquefoil Wildflower — Image by kenne
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.
Coulter Hibiscus Wildflowers — Image by kenne
