Mission San Xavier de bac
The Spanish Catholic Mission site was founded in 1692, the original mission was burned to the ground in 1770 by Apache Raiders. The current mission was constructed in 1793 as it stands today. It is known as The White Dove of the Desert. This was the cultural center of the region; here locals received the Word of God, traded goods and celebrated events of significant occasion in and around the mission.
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The photo was taken on a very hot August afternoon; swirling thunderstorm clouds build to the eastern sky, not a soul in sight.
Tohono O'Odham Nation
Tucson Arizona, August 2015
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“And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be”.
Revelation 22:12
A handsome and talented Great Horned Owl intently keeps a keen eye on the shared nest with young fledglings to feed around the clock.
Owl the savvy hunter he is, resources the saguaro cactus to keep a protective vigilance on the nest while using 360' turn radius to hunt from the vantage point.
The rare occasion of a fully bloomed saguaro may happen but just once a year. In very fortunate timing the male is perched on the cactus long enough to snap the capture in soft daylight of the sunrise.
Owl is a wild owl and not a capture or rescued owl; but the head of the new owl family out west, where their future is guaranteed by the other families in the owl network.
The corrupt owls have been dispatched and all matters settled.
Tonto Forrest Preserve
Cave Creek, Arizona
April 2014
The Colorado River makes a grand entry into the canyon at Sun Down on a magnificent spring afternoon.
The capture shows all of the layers in the canyon illuminated by the setting sun.
Mathers Point
Grand Canyon, Arizona U.S.A.
April 2016
From the gospel of Matthew 24: 46-47
Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find him so doing.
Verily I say unto you, that He shall make him ruler over all his goods.
Mission Bells ring above the chapel on a scorching hot summer afternoon; the seasonal summer monsoon rain clouds build to the south side of the sky.
The Mission rings the bell; calling the faithful to prayer.
Mission San Xavier Chapel
Tohono O' Odaham Indian Reservation
Tucson Arizona
August 2020
Grand Canyon a kaleidoscope of color and texture.
The earths crust, torn apart by the forces of nature opens like a book, revealing all the layers from the Coconino to the bottom and the Colorado River. The canyon is estimated to be in the seventy seven million years old range at the basin and the top layer with the gold and amber coloring was formed by oceanic deposits from over two million years. The Coconino top layer supports life as ponderosa pine seeds mature into trees growing in-between the massive rock formation.
Life on earth is resilliant.
Grand Canyon, Arizona
April 2019
The Big Valley
ABC Television: September 1965 - May 1969
Lee Majors, Linda Evans, Barbra Stanwyck in the Western Drama.
About the Photograph: Ranch Horses enjoy a cool autumn afternoon in the foothills of the Vulture Mine Mountains.
Wickenburg, Arizona
November, 2017
Cowboy Colin
Rancho de los Caballeros
Wickenburg, Arizona
April 2018
A cluster of freshly opened Saguaro Cactus Flowers gather together as part of natures survival of the species.
The previous winter and early spring the desert received abundant rainfall increasing the visibility of the flowers this time around.
The density of the cluster supports greater chances of seed dispersal and cacti survival in the harsh climate.
Cave Creek, Arizona
February 2016
from the gospel of Matthew 18: 19-20
Again, I say unto you, that if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, their am I in the midst of them.
Great Horned Owl Kay with two of her fledglings position themselves at the edge of the nest as dust approaches.
Cave Creek, Arizona
April 2024
Blessed Art Thou
A single cholla flower opens in the soft filtered morning light under a desert mesquite tree.
In the bloom, the silhouette of a vailed woman appears to be in prayer, her image captured on the pedals of the cactus flower cup.
And the silhouette spoke, like the voice of a woman in the wilderness; a whispering of wind, a rustling in the trees; like an angel, like a birds morning song, she appears, speaks and returns to the spiritual world without end.
“Tell them about my Son”
“Tell them about my Son”
“Tell them about my Son”
And the winds calmed, may this angelic message be given unto you to share with your children and your children’s children.
From the gospel Luke 1, 41-42
And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost.
And she spoke out with a loud voice, say, blessed art thou, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.
Amen.
Crossing The Bridge at West Fork Creek.
The Peace of knowing that one has secured a place unto heaven.
Sedona, Arizona
November, 2017
from The Gospel of John 10: 7-10
I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.
All that have come before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.
I am the door, that any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out and find pasture.
The thief comet not, but for to steal and to kill and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they have it in more abundance.
The Coconino Layer pillars stand over one mile high over the base of the canyon, formed of sandstone from oceanic deposits almost 2 and a half million years ago.
South Rim Trail Grand Canyon, Arizona
April 2018
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Corral at Rancho de los Caballeros
Way Out Wickenburg Way, Arizona
April 2017
Cave Creek, Arizona
April 2015
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Pyramids of Volcanic Ash
The Chinle Alignment Fault, tearing the earth in various directions leaves pyramid shapes of crumbling landscape destined to be monoliths in the next millennium.
The colorful layers of earth are encrusted in crystallized volcanic ash almost an inch deep, preserving the formations colorful rings from the elements.
Holbrook, Arizona
May 2016
Horace Greeley at the time was the Editor of the New York Tribune in the Fall of 1871.
In response to a letter he received from a young correspondent on the staff, wrote these prophetic ideas and concepts to his protege.
This is how his response letter starts.
Transcript
New York, New York, November 15, 1871
Dear Sir;
So many people ask me what they shall do; few tell me what they can do. Yet this is the pivot wherein all must turn.
I believe that each of us who has his place to make should go where men are wanted, and where employment is not bestowed as alms. Of course, I say to all who are in want of work, Go West!
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South Rim Trail, Grand Canyon, U.S.A.
April 2017
Try the veal, it’s the best in town.
What garantees can I give you?
I am the hunted one, I missed my chance, I’m not that clever.
Virgil Sollazzo another Outlaw Owl is a colorful character, his Family despises Vito and his Family for not playing ball in the school yard. Virgil and his syndication of Gangster Owls are envious of Vito and his Family and plan on doing them great harm to get their way.
The saga never ends.
Change is eminent, may as well have a real good plan.
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Gospel of Matthew 24: 12-13
“And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.”
Amen
Because God Created this Universe so diversely that no two begins or living things are exactly alike. Every person has different DNA, a different soul and a different season of life. It’s designed that way, we are all equal in that fact, but in fact all different.
Saguaro Blossom Bouquet represents all that is good in this word, even a blind and deaf man can feel the beauty of the blossoms and warmth of the sunshine.
Don’t miss out.
Tonto National Forrest
Bartlett Lake, Arizona
April 2018
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Baron von Richtofen soars high above the desert in the updraft of a very warm spring afternoon.
The frenzied hunt and kill to support the next generation becomes a fierce battle for control of the sky above the desert.
The hawk is known as the bird of war, recognized by Native American traditions of warriors wearing the feathers into battle.
The same rules apply for the raptor, follow the food supply across the continent as seasons and whether dramatically change in North America.
Bartlett Lake Rattlesnake Cove
Tonto National Forrest
Cave Creek , Arizona
April 2016
Cowboy Johnny Ringo bringing the herd up out of the dust.
at the Flying E Ranch
Way Out Wickenburg Way, Arizona
April 2017
With a Little Help From My Friends
What would you do if I sang out of tune, would you stand up and walk out on me?
Lend me an ear and I’ll sing you a song and I’ll promise not to sing out of key.
I get by with a Little Help from My Friends.
Lennon/McCartney
Rancho de los Caballeros
Wickenburg, Arizona
April, 2017
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I must be tripping?
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And again he sent unto to them a servant; and at him they cast stones, and wounded him in the head, shamefully sending him away.
And again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; beating some and killing some.
Having yet one son, his well be loved, he sent him also last to them, saying, they will reverence my son.
But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come; let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours.
Mark 12 4-7
A trio of pristine Saguaro Blossoms open in the cool darkness of the evening.
Come morning light the birds and bees faithfully come by the plenty to drink nectar and harvest pollen from the mature flowers.
Our heavenly father provides for them, for their inheritance is the fruit of the earth and the winds in the sky.
El Kay Bar Ranch
Wickenburg, Arizona
April 2018
Anasazi Cave Dwelling
Paleo Mankind’s home in post Ice Age North America, humans sought shelter in naturally formed caves.
A Cave Dwelling with Grinding Stones remnant of the Anasazi Peoples. The Ancient Ones who once inhabited the canyon 2,500 years ago used these stones to grind seeds, butcher meat and make clothing from the canyon ecosystem.
Before the Navajo or the Hopi People occupied the canyon, their very own mythology details the Anasazi or Ancient Ones as people unto themselves, as Old as the Earth.
The Anasazi where North American Cave dwellers, with no written language.
Navajo National Monument
Canyon de Chelly
Chinle Arizona
April 2015
Bridal Path at Rancho de los Caballeros
Cowboy Casey delivers Fresh Horses to distinguished guests at the ranch.
Wickenburg, Arizona
May 2023
Butch & Sundance
Brother Great Horned Owls peer out from the hallow of a majestic saguaro cactus with mornings first light.
Cave Creek, Arizona
April, 2020
from the Gospel of Matthew: 8: 1-8
And he entered into a ship, and passed over, and came into his own city.
And behold, they brought to him a man sick of palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing of their faith said unto the sick of the palsy; “Son be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee.
And, behold, certain of the scribes said within themselves, This man blasphemeth!
An Jesus knowing their thoughts said; “ Wherefore do you think evil in your hearts?
For weather it is easier, to say, Thy Sins be Forgiven thee; or to say, Arise and Walk?
“But that you may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins.
He instructs the man of palsy.
“Arise, take up thy bed and go back to thine own house.
And he arose and departed to his house.
But when the multitude saw it, they marveled, and glorified God, which hath given such powers to men.
About the Photograph.
A Magnificent Trumpeting Saguaro Bloom represents the purity of the spirit as life is reborn upon the earth.
My Offering to the Lord is my page, I ask the Lords blessing for all that visit and share my testimony.
Saguaro National Monument
Tucson, Arizona
August 2018
Peace and Love through the Ages.
I will always be with you.
If not leave a message, and I will return your call.
Looking Through the Windows of a Dead Mans Eyes
Only the Wind Talks Now
Whispers of a Nations Pain
The Pueblo Ruins sit in silence, only time passes through the deep and narrow canyon today.
The spirits of the dead inhabit this place, as this was the battle site of the Massacre at Mummy Cave.
Navajo Nation was encamped in the Canyon during 1864. The U.S. Calvary was dispatched to end the conflict between the U.S. Army and the Navajo. The Calvary Massacred 11 Navajo at the Mummy Cave leaving behind only the Pueblo Ruins.
The desecration of the sight remains a tragedy, 2,500 years of peaceful inhabitance in the canyon ended with death & destruction.
Mummy Canyon @ Canyon d’ Chelly
Navajo National Monument
Chinle Arizona
April 2015
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Devine Purpose
A Strong Desire and Willingness to Endure Hardship, even extreme hardship and sacrifice to attain something uniquely different in a different land as part of Gods Plan for Purpose, Destiny and Spiritual Fulfillment.
Not Luck.
Not Group Think.
Not Family Tradition either.
You don't need mommy's approval to be a man.
About the Photograph
Saguaro Cactus Blossoms open in the brilliant sunshine of a desert spring morning.
Cave Creek, Arizona
May 2019
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven, a time to be born, a time to die; a time to sow and a time to reap, a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to morn, and a time to dance, a time to throw away stones and a time to gather stones together, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to seek and a time to loose, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.
Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8
About the photograph
Simplicity becomes perfection; Cholla Cactus Cups bloom in harmony on a warm summers day.
McDowell Mountain, Scottsdale Arizona
June 2017
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Enchantment d' Sedona
Cathedral Rock @ Oak Creek Crossing
Sedona, Arizona
November 2017
You say it’s Your Birthday?
Happy Birthday too yah!
You're gonna have a good time!
@ the Lazy K Ranch
Wickenburg, Arizona
April 2023
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Daddy, can I have a pony for my birthday?
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Autumn along Trail at West Fork, the trailhead leads to a magnificent waterfall of Red Rock and pristine waters.
The canyon walls are stained with cobalt blue and magnesium red tone, accented by the early morning rain shower.
Sedona, Arizona
November 2017
Time for Bold Prayer
Prayer Angel Joan communes with the Almighty, asking healing of those who suffer afflictions in this world.
A key part of mental wellness is sharing joy.
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Oak Creek Crossing, Sedona, Arizona
April 2016
Oak Creek Canyon
Sedona, Arizona
November 2017
Oak Creek at seasonal level flows through the canyon, glistening with sunlight that peers through the forrest canapé’.
The leaves have changed color, the air has chilled but peaceful water flows only into the hearts that accept it.
West Fork Trail
Sedona, Arizona
Little Joey Gravano the Outlaw Owl, flipped on The Family and learned to talk to the feds for the right price and protection.
The Brooklyn mob soldier turns states witness against organized crime in New York.
But luckily nobody got hurt.
Retired to Silver Leaf, Scottsdale Arizona
April 2024
From Genesis 3:19
In the sweat of they face thou shall eat bread, till thou shall eat bread, till thou return to the ground, for out of it thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shall thou return.
The Grist Mill turns Grain into Flour for the Children’s Bread.
And For This:
God Moves The Earth in Exact Measure.
The Trees Turn to Gold.
Dreams Come to Life and Lives Comes to Dream.
You Recognize the Change in Seasons but Your Hearts Remain Cold, does Your Heart not have seasons too?
Pray in One Tongue for the Lost Children of Israel, that they may be reunited with The Shepard of their Fathers Fathers Fathers.
Tax Collectors Take Bread from The Mouths of The Poor, The Elderly and the Children and give it unto corrupted men who sit in contempt of the Lord.
Gospel of Matthew 41-42
Two women shall be grinding at the mill, one shall be taken and the other be left.
Watch therefore, for ye no not what hour your Lord doth come.
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The Old Water Wheel & Flour Mill at Crescent Moon Ranch rests in peace in the shadow of Gold Colored Ash, Oak and Sycamore.
Red Rock State Park, Sedona, Arizona
November 2017
Afternoon Tea Party for Two
A pair of wild burros enjoy the afternoon shade of mesquite and palo verde trees overlooking the lake.
Scorpion Bay Inlet, Lake Pleasant, Arizona
April 2021
Matthew 6: 19-21
Lay up not for yourselves the treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break through and steal.
But lay up for yourself treasures in heaven, where neither moth or rust corrupt and where thieves break through and steal:
For where your treasure is there your heart will be.
Vulture Mine Peak Wilderness
Way Out Wickenburg Way, Arizona
May 2018
The High Chaparral
Set in the 1870’s in the Arizona Territory at the High Chaparral Ranch run by “Big John” Cannon and his family.
Filmed at Old Tucson Studios, Tucson Arizona
NBC - Television: September 1967 through March 1971
Starring : Henry Darrow, Mark Slade, Linda Cristal, Leif Erickson, Cameron Mitchell
Filmed at “Old Tucson Studios”
Ranch Horses spreading out after time in the corral.
Wickenburg, Arizona
May 2016
Strawberry Fields Forever
Hedgehog Cholla Cacti Bloom in a delicate Kaleidoscope of Reds, Pink and Fuchsia colored paper thin flowers.
The Cacti is surrounded by blooming wild berries, a staple for the Native Bird population.
Spur Cross Conservatory
Cave Creek, Arizona
April 2017
A great horned owl "One Eyed Pauli" and the brood prepare for night training.
Into the darkest of hours the little ones will learn to use their razor sharpe talons to hop about the arms of the saguaro around the nest, before learning how to use their beaks to kill their first victim.
One Eyed Pauli gives last minute instructions too Little Pauli and Sammy the fledgling next door.
Later in life, Sammy takes the stand against the family and all hell breaks loose.
Gangster Owls/ Gotti Family from Brooklyn
Cave Creek, Arizona
May 2024
Pristine Saguaro Blooms glow on a sunny spring morning in the desert wilderness, white and pure like the garment of King Solomon.
Vulture Mine Mountains
Way Out Wickenburg, Arizona
May 2016
from the gospel of John 8:12
I am the light of the world: he that follow me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
Young Carlos
Cave Creek, Arizona
April, 2024
Cowboy Fernando
Bringing the horses out to fresh pasture and cool refreshing water at Rancho de los Caballeros in Wickenburg, Arizona.
April 2018
Sweet Springs in the Desert
Saguaro Cacti tower over the desert hillside, a carpet of Golden Brittle-bush spreads as far as the eye can see in the peaceful little valley.
A staple in the diet of the local humming bird Community
Cave Creek, Arizona
James 3:11
No spring of water pours out sweet water and bitter water from the same well opening.
Does a well of water give off good water and bad water in the same draw at the well?
The water is either good or bad, how can it be both?
Sweet water does not flow from a bitter well.
Only sweet water flows from a sweet well and the bitter water goes untouched in anguish, loneliness and despair for the taste is unpalatable for both man and beast.
Owner of a Lonesome Heart, much better then the Owner of a Broken Heart
Rancho de los Caballeros, Wickenburg Arizona
March 2019
Oak Creek Crossing in Autumn colors.
So what was once, ocean and what was once lake is now the high desert with yucca and succelents pushing into the ponderosa pine forrest laced with colorful oak, ash and spruce that dominate the creek flora.
Change is inevitable.
Stay ahead of the curve, anticipate change.
Sedona, Arizona
July 2017
And so it is written:
Psalm 23: 1-6
The Lord is my Shepard; I shall not want.
He make me lie down in green pastures: he leads me beside the still waters.
He restore my soul: he lead me in paths of rightousness for his name sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou are with me; thy rod and they staff comfort me.
Thou prepares a table before me in the presence of mine enemies; thou anoints my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
Surley goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
Amen
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Balance of Spirit, Mind & Soul.
Oak Creek Canyon, Sedona Arizona.
November 2016
Old Town Tombstone Movie Set abandoned in the late 1950’s served as a back drop to early Cowboy & Western Movies for three decades.
The set is on Arizona 80, north of Tombstone headed to Benson Arizona, the mountain scenery is real eye candy.
Featured as the Photograph of the Day by www.arizonahighways.com on 2 October 2024
Tombstone, Arizona
May 2020
Wyatt Earp shuffles the deck of poker cards to relax and unwind, quick hands and a keen eye to The Marshall a long way in life, do what you do best.
Tombstone at the O.K. Corral
May 2018
Sweet Dreams Little One
A young Great Horned Owl named Luca, probably about three weeks old or so lowers his eyelids as the daylight fades into evening dusk.
Luca is developing quickly into a big strong owl, already sporting colored feathers on his face at about 10 days of age.
Luca later in life became a foot soldier in the Family as the deliverer of bad news.
And in a twist of fate, Luca Brasi now sleeps with the fishes.
Sonoran Desert Foothills
Cave Creek, Arizona
April 2024
A Time to Sew
From the gospel of Matthew: 13: 3-9
Behold, a sower went forth to sow;
And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the wayside, and fowls came and devoured them up:
Some fell upon stoney places, where they had not much earth; and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of the earth:
And when the sun was up they where scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.
And some fell among thrones; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:
But others fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundred fold, some sixty fold and some thirty fold.
Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
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A farmers plow from the turn of the century sits at the edge of the Sonoran Desert northwest of Phoenix.
Aquila Arizona
October 2023.
Like McHammer said : Can't touch that!
Cowboy Andres strolls down the dusty trail in the foothills of the scenic Vulture Mine Mountains.
Round em Up, Ride em Out
Wickenburg, Arizona
May 2015
Sonny, Alfredo and Little Michael, great horned owl siblings appear for the first time; edging over the top of a nest built in a majestic saguaro cacti.
The young trio would eventually fledge out of the nest and return to the Bronx corner where they where in The Family Olive Oil business.
All the business.
Everybody knew.
Artists Note
The birds of the air need not worry about the return of there master, their daily bread already provided for them, even the materials for next seasons nests are in place before the first summer rain.
The eternal master has provided food and shelter for them.
What about you?
Are you ready for the cold sting of death?
Or do you burn with the eternal flame of the Holy Spirit?
Your inheritance come quickly, may the forces be with you.
The Roundabout
Ranch Horses communicate their dominance in the pecking order, seeking the lead of the pack as the go through The Roundabout at the Iconic Rancho de los Caballeros
Wickenburg, Arizona
April 2017
Montezuma's Castle
The Cliff Dwelling and Pueblo Ruins at Montezuma Castle where built into a section of sandstone overlooking the Verde River Valley. The sculpture by removal and early adobe brick laying has been preserved by the sheet rock overhang and the dry climate of the past millennia.
Built 1250 A.D. by the Senegua Tribe who inhabited the lands in the Verde River Valley; the hunter gatherer tribe planted and stored crops in sealed stash houses in the desert foothills above the valley. They where defending their food supply when they vanished to the east following years of drought.
East to The Rio Grande’, follow the rivers, follow the lightning, follow the rain, for with rain there is life and without there is death.
Yavapai Apache Nation
Cottonwood Arizona
July 2016
Spirit of Water (Translation : Nib-ina-bek-we)
Navajo National Monument
Chinle, Arizona
Nibinabekwe: A Race of Water Spirits from Anishiabe folklore. Described by todays Navajo People as being shaped as mermaids, with human torso features and finned fish tails that walk on water.
Spirituality a World Without End in Paleo North America.
About the Photograph: The seasonal snowmelt flows through the Chinle Wash in North Eastern Arizona. A colorful mineral stain from cobalt & iron deposits depicts a moving “Spirit of Water” across the canyon entrance. Water itself being a living spirit to the Native American Peoples.
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Orchards dot the running wash as it winds from the Colorado Plateau to the Salt River and a journey into the deserts below.
Navajo National Monument
Canyon d’ Chelly, Chinle Arizona
Just what I need and nothing more, but peace between us, under the symbol of the Comanche’.
The Out Law Josie Wales
The Horse Whisperer: Cowboy Andres working with We Won’t Get Fooled Again , training, rehabilitating and grooming him on location.
The relationship continues May through September at The Cheney Ranch in Jackson Hole Wyoming.
Rancho de los Caballeros
Wickenburg Arizona
May 2015
He give us the morning star.
He give us the true bread that fell from heaven; in recounting of His Fathers daily provision for the Israelites forty year journey through the desert.
And they ate of it, and it was sweet like honey.
as written from the Gospel of John 6: 31-35
Very truly I tell you, it is not Moses that has given you bread from heaven, but is My Father who give you bread from heaven, it is my Father who give you true bread from heaven.
Saguaro Cactus Blooms opens in the early morning sunlight.
The seeds of the desert plants where ground into a flour paste and baked in the desert, for the daily bread.
Vulture Mine Trail
Wickenburg, Arizona
April 2022
Wickenburg, Arizona
September 2018
Adobe Pueblo Cliff Dwelling Ruins
The Pueblo’s where built around 850 A.D. by the Hopi, a small tribe of hunter gathers.
The Hopi people connected with the spirits in the canyon leaving behind unique petroglyphs messages on cave walls detailing the life and survival of the early Native American Inhabitants.
They where a spiritual people who communed with the spirits and where children of the earth.
Navajo National Monument
Canyon de Chelly
Chinle, Arizona
April 2015
April 2016
Owl Capone is the oldest sibling in the brood of fledging great horned owls in a saguaro cactus nest. He uses his beak to make a clacking sound, anticipating something fresh and delicious for breakfast, perhaps a rat.
Owl Capone resided in Federal Prison at Alcatraz with the other Jail Birds, his psychiatrist diagnosed him to have the brain of a twelve year old.
Owl, also know as Scarface, Big Owl, Owl Boy, Public Owl Enemy #1; became an American Icon as a Bootlegger, Gangster and Racketeer in Old Chicago Town.
Sonoran Desert Foothills
Cave Creek, Arizona
May, 2014
From the gospel of Matthew 5: 9-12
Blessed are the Peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
Blessed are they which are persecuted for rightousness sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are you, when men revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which where before you.
The Photograph:
Stag Horn Cholla Flower
Boot Hill
Tombstone, Arizona
May 2018
Although Little Joey is only a few days from hatching out, he is already smart enough to keep a low profile.
Joey would fledge in the wild living in the hallow of a saguaro cactus, learning the survival skills from wise owls.
Not Wise Guys.
Learning the ropes on survival skills, flying, hunting and killing
He is family loyal to a fault, but can clearly see that not all family is good family. The envious underachievers resent Joey and his track to success using non-traditional methods beyond family intellect and scope. They ooze with jealousy and their venom is poison liken a Rattlesnake with keys to the front door.
Joey Zaza knows you can’t live in a sleepy little hallow his whole life? I guess that would be going nowhere.
Joey took wing and few west into the sunshine, making his mark, starring in Godfather lll where he put his signature on the life saga of survival of the fittest.
If you set the bar to easy street, you get what you deserve.
If you damage a man’s reputation and family, you will get what you deserve and so much more than you thought.
Joey Zaza is now a wise old owl, retired at his secured complex in Troon Golf Village, Scottsdale Arizona with swimming pools, movie stars and mountain views.
Only the sound of Mother Earth speaks here, the mind and spirit listens for messages in the wind.
Politics are words between flawed men and women with one political ideology between other other flawed men and women with an opposite political ideology.
Prayer are words made by flawed men and women to The Almighty and The Almighty speaks back to flawed men and women with the gift of life and abundance if the spirit seeks.
Artists Note: Personal Private Portraits on the Oak Creek are available by appointment, email for details.
Oak Creek Canyon, Sedona, Arizona
November, 2016
Private Portrait Opportunities at Sedona's Oak Creek Canyon available call/email Robert @ rwkeilingphotography@gmail.com
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Perfect setting for dress-ups shots, bring the wardrobe, don't fur get the hats and accessories, don't be shy.
You could be a star. (too)
1 Corinthians: 8-13
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now all we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am known.
And now these three things remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
About the Photograph
Two horses share a moment of tender friendship and connection in the corral, their happiness can be seen in the body english on display.
Rancho de los Caballeros
Wickenburg, Arizona
April 2017
Pioneers Wagon rests on a sunny hillside, hand made back in Pennsylvania for the long trek across the Great Plains and the Rio Grande.
The adventure of a life time comes to a peaceful rest.
Seven Springs, Arizona
February, 2017
Featured in Arizona Highways Magazine on August 27, 2022 as the Photograph of the Day on the Webpage Gallery. www.arizonahighways.com
I found Gold in a Silver Mine.
1925 Silver was king, men worked, men gambled, men lost, men died with their boots on, unmarked graves scattered into the foothills of the Buckskin Mountains.
The price was too high for many.
Robson Silvermine Company
Aguila, Arizona
April 2019
A Great Horned Owl Mama Mia’ protects her chicks with the bow of her enormous wing span, keeping them safe from nasty aggressive predators as Black Crows, Ravens, Roadrunners and Reptiles.
The nest, built into the folded arms of a Majestic Saguaro Cacti provide a natural barrier to deter predation.
Her eyes reflect the amazing sunset she is looking into, as the tapetum lucidum layer in the retina catch the rays of the setting sun.
Owls eyes are much more sensitive in low light than human vision in minimal light.
Cave Creek, Arizona
May 2018
Artist Note: I do not use drones to take the photographs as they are intrusive and very unappreciated by nesting birds.
However I do resource a six foot painters ladder that is carefully positioned not to disturb but to view. No owls or chicks have been harmed in the process.
In the Hebrew tradition of the time Ecclesiastes was written, men embraced each other by wrapping their arms around each other as a greeting and sign of friendship.
The word embrace is also used in the context of embracing the scripture, the written word as a symbol or act pleasing to God and recognizable by other worthy men.
A Time to Refrain from Embrace would be avoiding some one out of anger or jealousy, or presenting false witness as friendship, not pleasing to God and easily recognizable by worthy men.
About the Photograph:
A Gold Torch Organ Pipe Cactus explodes with colorful mature blooms, bringing a day of peace and reconciliation to the earth.
Cave Creek, Arizona
May, 2023
Cowboy Giovani
Local Rodeo competitor Gio practices for upcoming Calf Roping events.
Bowman Arena, Wickenburg Arizona
April 2017
Don Vito a Great Horned Owl has sold his tomato & olive oil company interests back in New York and has moved all the family assets out west.
This single move guaranteed the Family’s safety, well being and future successes with greater abundance in new endeavors.
My father is now dead.
All Family Matters where resolved back in 2012 and I am now the sitting head of the Family.
But a Woman of Deception thinks otherwise.
A Woman of Deception shelters her eyes from truth and her lips move on behalf of the devil, her words are toxic, spiritual poison to who’s spirit she fears the most.
Satin himself takes the form of a Woman of Deception, have you not read?
Be aware of imposters posing as the Oldest Son.
They walk in darkness, posing as something they are not, their words, actions and messages conveyed consciously and subconsciously wash ashore of the eternal sea as dead fish.
The stench of dead fish fills the air with their breath, every step they take until they are in the grave.
If you where not born a Family Child, then clearly you are not a Family Child. If you where not sired or born in the Family you are not the head of the Family.
Your roots are not the seed of The Family but a relative of the devil, you lie, you omit, you bear false witness, you covet your neighbors goods, you attacked my only beloved child for your own gain.
You refer to my wife as “that bitch”.
You choose out of your own selfish means not to have a family, so many poor and hungry children, but not a crumb from under your table.
Your eyes burn with jealousy and ooze venom about another man success, calling it luck.
Is your casino loosing money or you're just unlucky?
As one who has earnestly made a mark in this world and who has already found a place in the world yet to come, doesn’t take advise from the bankrupt and corrupt.
So what is to be done is to be done on earth.
You and your insignificant other have no business consulting and advising against any of the Family Brothers or their Children, or against another Family and his Children for any reason at any time. Did the Woman of Deception place a crown of authority on your head?
Did she put words in your mouth for mana?
Not acceptable, ever, no matter what the Deceptive Women has told you. And now time becomes immortal, you can’t undo the past and you will be exposed for what you are. '
“Tu sei il parassita”.
I despise you and look forward to walking all over your grave in my boots, spurs and black hat just like on Boot Hill.
Perhaps I will have my afternoon tea and enjoy the cawing of The Ravens on the hill, but only I will walk away.
My you have no rest, may your water be bitter, and you bread be hard .
It takes a community of many sheep to prop up your image like a golden calf.
I do not apologize for facts.
You, played the key role in dividing the Family and Family Children against each other. Pandering for coin for your own personal gain of access to what is clearly not “yours”. May your souls perish is the eternal flames of hell with your little Prissy Pen Pals. (plural)
Are y’all having a reunion?
The Deceptive Woman has been revealed to the world, you are her consigliere, the straw that stirs the drink, the cry baby, the rat, the benefactor of alienating the three brothers. Playing the other two like a fiddle, feeding jealousy and hate to them and the children’s children like scorpions for breakfast.
What is your son’s name?
Thought you could fool a Corleone’?
Ringing the bell to salivating dogs who await the return of a Family Brother, only to ridicule and mock him as Scab, a Union Buster, as Unwanted Trash as Persona Non-grata, not my cup of tea teaching the impressionable Family Children to hate and revile one of the Family.
Did you celebrate the burned little baby boy, not even two years of age burned over half his little body, wrapped in bandage and gauze?
Where you the fat stupid looking kid smiling in the camera for the Polaroid when they photographed the burned baby boy wrapped in bandage and gauze?
For old time sake?
From both the lips of my father and yours.
I know who you are.
But of course the little children adore you, for not only can they not smell the rat, but also they can’t see the rat either in the outfit of a Super Hero.
You wear the mask and I have ripped it off your face.
Will you have an open casket with the tail hanging out?
You deliberately spread false witness against a Child of the Family in a time of crisis, we asked for prayer and confidentiality. Instead we received a bag of snakes and serpents, goulash billboarding and gaslighting the world that my only beloved child is a junkie, a whore, a piece of shit street walker.
You took my Family’s only beloved child, yes, tied her to a whipping post, but that was not enough. You gathered together your minions, placed firewood around her feet and burned her as witch, behind my back no less.
Gutless Coward you are.
Did you think you where going to outsmart a Corleone’?
You sealed your own fate.
Here are your airline tickets to paradise, the car is waiting outside.
Get out of my sight.
SPOILER ALERT: Enablers, proteges and the complicit will also face the grapes of wrath.
Many have heard your words and witnessed detestable deeds; they are self evident, even to a simpleton. The World has spoken, surly as the rain falls, as the wind blows the truth appears to me as beautiful, as the falling leaves in the chill of November frost.
The ebb and flow all leads to you.
Your Casino is bankrupt, do you skim from the top?
Do you draw house chips and play with house money?
The issue is not with the silent, for their lips where removed by Barbarians who held them captive with a single dangling carrot on a string quelling any resistance with Fools Gold.
You have not only separated the Three Family Children for your own benefit, but you have forever divided a family that you don’t belong to.
Actions have consequences.
I am now fully dressed in armor, my staff keeps me upright and my shield protects me from all evil; you are powerless to dodge, dink and duck.
I have mastered the waters of life and discernment is now my sword.
I await word, the action will be swift and decisive.
You will regret your moves as the hour approaches, but you won’t be alone.
You defamed the wrong boots.
You slandered the wrong Black Hat.
You mocked the faith of the wrong Brother & his Family.
You use vulgarities and insults to describe the women of the family, our eyes are not wide shut. Yes, that is women as in more than one.
You parakeet the words of the Deceptive Woman, but once on your lips they are your words not hers alone.
You own them, but yet you're not accountable?
Hummmmmmmm?
So who gave you a hall pass?
So, if you're not accountable who is?
The Wolf Pack of Benefactors?
Thirty Silver Coins for you Judas.
But you are a necessity on the way to the cross, now the journey is almost over, you crucified my Family, for nickels and dimes.
That is your game.
So who ordered the hit, a consensus of dumb asses or the leader of syndication.
I heard you and prissy are all in.
Have you have been rewarded for your thoughts, words and actions against my Family and the Family as a whole? Have you no family of your own, no children, no skin the game, going fishing Alfredo?
Surly you where making your bones with cheer leaders in high school while I was studying at Sunday School.
You mocked the Lord Himself; referring to a Family Son as a Mormon Moron, Amish Asshole and Religious Fraud, mocking meal time prayers and rumoring mental illness?
Hope you had fun spreading the vile and slanderous words to the hungry wolves, their appetite will never be satisfied, what you feed them is unclean, surly they will become sick and die.
You are disgusting.
Do you even wash your hands before you eat.
What goes in your mouth is a gift from on high, what comes out of your mouth is vile and repugnant.
You, have, a big, mouth and time is becoming scarce, the sands pass through the hour glass like star fish on the beach.
You decided it was a good idea to slap around more than one of the Family, banking on my position that I will turn the other cheek from the insults, lies and deplorable actions.
My lack of response only infuriated you more, delivering the truth to my door step, the attempts on my life became only more egregious and dastardly, mistakes where made, by you and your associates.
But they where not mistakes, they where calculated for you to benefit from the results.
I have dispatched my messenger; you know not what hour or day, you know not the year, but know this that my kindness will not be his calling card.
No mending this fence, it will be done.
On earth.
With the Warmest of Regards;
Don Vito, now retired in Cave Creek, counting the days until eternity without you and your minions.
Yashua
Jesus is the Risen Word as sure as the morning star rises in the east and sets to the west , no matter where you stand.
Pink Flowering Torch Cactus blooms in the peak of spring usually during the month of May.
Mission San Xavier - Grotto Hill
Tucson, Arizona
April 2017
from the gospel of Luke 24:13
Jesus is the Risen King; who is victorious over death, recognized by His deciples, validated by scripture, and enthroned throughout creation.
Sonny Goldwater 64
Wickenburg Arizona
May 2016
From the Gospel of Luke 5: 12-16
And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a man full of leprosy; who seeing Jesus fell on his face, and besought him, saying, Lord, if though wilt, thou can make me clean.
And he put forth is hand, and touched him, saying, I will: “be thou clean”. And immediately the leprosy left him.
And he charged him to “tell no man": but go, and show thy self to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing, according as Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.
But so is much the more went there a fame abroad of him: and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities.
And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed.
Amen.
Saguaro Blossoms open with the morning star, representing the healing and cleansing of soul, this is my offering for mercy received; by the commandment of Moses I share with you.
As for my testimony as Moses commanded; I assure you it is real as the ocean is deep and as old as time, it is a world without end.
Amen
Speak Easy and Soda Shop with an upright piano, counter stools, checkered dance floor, gas lanterns & delicate soft wood tones.
Arizona Highways “Photograph of the Day” on 5 March, 2025 “www.arizonahighways.com Photo of the Day Gallery
Ghost Town Silver Mine @ Robson Ranch
Aquila, Arizona
April 2015
Ghost Town Blacksmith Shop
Robson Silver Mine Company
Aguila, Arizona
October 2017
A Collection from the Honky Tonks, just to make you smile, love to give it a whirl with the jukebox on!
Ecclesiastes 1:4
“One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abide for ever.”
Book of Life:
by Robert Keiling
Man Art Dust and to Dust Man Shall Return
Like a Misty Rain into a Raging River
And the Raging River into the Endless Sea
Held a newborn and heard her first cry
Held the drying and said the last goodby
My eyes have been witness to both
In life I have walked upon lofty clouds and laughed aloud
Touching the earth one last time before I die
Yet I Arise with first light of the sky
My arms have withered my bones have dried
Windswept, I inch closer to the edge
Snapping off the fragile branches of life
Storm after storm pull the green leaves into the River
and to a Peaceful Conclusion in the Endless Sea
Amen, Glory to you Lord.
Cave Creek, Arizona
April 2016
1 Corinthians 4-7
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
About the Photograph
Baby Gertrude and Family
Wild Burros take refuge from the blistering afternoon sun under a canapé of Palo Verde & Mesquite Trees.
Scorpion Bay Cove
Lake Pleasant, Arizona
May 2018
Wrangler Penny at the Sky King Ranch
Way Out Old Wickenburg Way, Arizona
April 2016
Schuyler, Penny & Clipper
from the ABC TV Western Series 1951-1962, Sky King.
Connie was a beautiful Bride; it was a wonderful wedding. Friends and family celebrated, but don’t take it personally, it’s about the business.
Her only fledge Victor was from her second marriage; to one of the Rizzi Boys from Brooklyn’s Bensonhurst Avenue Crew.
Nominated for Most Artistic Owl in a support role in 1972, but passed over for some other wise guy’s old lady.
“My Brother is Gonna Kill Yah, Oh, So, Slow”
Wild and Free in the desert of the Tonto National Forrest, northeast of Cave Creek, Arizona
May 2016
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Santa Fe Rail Road Station
Way Out Wickenburg, Arizona
May 2018
New neighbors in town, Eddie Albert & Eva Gabor headline the CBS -TV Hit Comedy “ Green Acres” from 1965 - 71.
Pat Buttram; as the effervescent Mr. Haney, who Sold Them the Farm.
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Clemenza a Great Horned Owl lurks in wait until the cover of darkness to avenge family matters; an imposter has infiltrated the family and helped themselves to family treasures here on earth that where not “all” his.
Once the sun goes down the killing starts, clearing the way to reconcile all family business and close all disputes between the families with one father at the head of the table, no imposters please.
Loyal soldier of the Corleone entorage, keeper of deep dark family secrets and recipes handed down through time.
“Leave the car, take the cannoli’s.”
Cave Creek, Arizona
April 2024
The gospel of Matthew 27: 37-40
His Diciples asked of Him:
Master, which is the greatest commandment in the law?
Jesus said unto him;
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
This is the first and great commandment.
And the second is like unto it, Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself.
On these two commandments hang all the law and the phrophets.
Spur Cross Trail & Conservatory
Cave Creek Arizona
May 2018
Painted Horses where preferred by Native American Warriors for their distinguished coloration, believed to be spiritual they provided a fierce appearance in battle, already painted by nature.
The War Painted Horse was a source of energy that Native Warriors rode into battle in full regalia.
The Babylonians domesticated horses, using them in their powerful military calvary about 2,200 B.C. described in stone carvings in modern day Iran and Iraq.
Equestrian Therapy has brought those with disabilities of all natures closer to self consciousness, happiness and joyful lessons.
Photograph taken at
Rancho de los Caballeros Main Corral
Wickenberg Arizona
May 2016
The Iconic Western of 1949 was filmed in and around the Grand Canyon, starring and produced by the Singing Cowboy Gene Autry, co-starring Nan Leslie and Gene’s Horse named Champion.
Grand Canyon, Arizona
May 2019
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Organ Pipe Cactus flowers open on a warm spring afternoon.
Desert Flora feed the birds of the sky and honey bees by the multitude, it is a planet of diverse relationships and abundance from The Father.
Organ Pipe National Monument
Sells, Arizona
August 2023
from the gospel John 15: 1-5
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
Every branch in me, that bear not fruit he takes away: and every branch that fruits, he purges it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
Now you are clean through the word I have spoken unto you.
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch can not bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can you, except you abide in me.
I am the vine, you are the branches: he that abide in me, and I in him, the same bring forth much fruit: for without me, you can do nothing.
A completed Petroglyph reveals a story of early mankind in North America.
The Petroglyph rests under a naturally formed cave remnant of the last Great Ice Age created by expanding and contracting ice movements.
The overhang above the cave is about twenty five feet up above the cave entrance and is believed to be by the Hopi Peoples dated 850 A.D.
Reading the petroglyph from left to right.
A Serpent - evil sprit has entered the canyon community, snakes where beheaded and eaten as protein and the skins dried for ceremonial applications and medicine.
A Kokopelli - plays a pan flue to keep the people in balance
J - although not a letter in a language, the inscription is the symbol of the Hopi People, a hooked semi loop.
The Frog - represents the authority and presence of the Tribal Medicine Man, anphibions and reptiles where used in the medicine of the ancient ones.
The Hand Prints - are a key to identification with the spirits in the cave, each set of hand prints made by a Chieftain, Medicine Man and a Tribe Elder of the deceased have access to the cave, it is a sacred place to present the dead.
Only the Medicine Man, Chieftain and Family Elder have access to the sacred cave interior.
The Puffs - are depictions of ghosts, spiritual but on earth as made by the winds and the clouds. Rain was the most important spirit for the Hopi.
Human Figure - the image depicts a human with the head extended well above the shoulders, the extended head is a body of the deceased, still on the earth but the spirit has left the body.
Canyon d’ Chelly
Navajo National Monument
Chinle, Arizona
In Loving Memory of Allison Steele
Allison is an Artistic Owl and a childhood memory, she just wouldn’t kiss me, but only in our dreams.
When the evening comes, so comes the darkness, but there was a beacon of light. She read us poetry and prose, sang songs that lead a path through the night.
A Great Horned Owl by night; Allison, by day, sits on a clutch of eggs in her nest constructed of dried twigs and tree branches hidden in the twisted and gnarled arms of a mature Saguaro Cacti.
Allison is not a rescue or enclosed owl, but indeed a wild owl from the Old Country, he father a Sicilian Inn Keeper kept her beauty under lock and key with watchful eyes of his extended Owl Family.
Then she was free to fly into the night sky.
Her tragic end was a huge blow to Owl Pachino; ending his exile in Sicily to return to the states as the Godfather of the Owl Family.
And they all did not live happily after.
And somebody is going to get hurt.
“Don’t take it personally, it’s all about the business”.
Tonto Forrest in Cave Creek, Arizona
April 2020
