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Chef Preparing Dinner ~ with Reflections on Glass
"Dinner is where the magic happens in the kitchen." ~ Kris Carr
reflections evening through the window hanging lights kitchen house eventide twilight preparing dinner cook chef view from the deck glass cooking glass door
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Sweep of Sand ~ Southern Outer Banks
"A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by the ocean." ~ Henry Grunwald
beach sand sweep of sand Eastern Seaboard Eastern North Carolina East Coast water waves birds coast shoreline shore coastline coastal plain coastal beach coastal Carolinas barrier island tide clouds sky Bogue Banks North Carolina seaside seashore seascape Atlantic Ocean Atlantic Seaboard Crystal Coast
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Play ~ Southern Outer Banks
Many thanks to Carl Berger for first calling these wise words to my attention: "Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else." ~ Margaret Mead
play Eastern Seaboard Eastern North Carolina East Coast ocean Atlantic Ocean beach sandy beach coastal plain coastal coastal beach coastal Carolinas North Carolina waves misty day tidewater tide water waterscape saltwater dunes sand dune clouds sky people mist fog misty foggy sand shore shorelines seashore seascape seaside sea coast sea isle wet barrier island island Crystal Coast Bogue Banks feet sea
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wild sea oats ~ Eastern Seaboard
"Photography is a love affair with life." ~ Burk Uzzle
Uniola paniculata sea oats seaside oats arroz de costa grass subtropical grass coast coastline coastal plain coastal coastal beach coastal Carolinas sand dune beach plant southeastern United States large seed heads rhizomes inflorescences windpollinated florets barrier island beach front Atlantic Ocean Atlantic Atlantic Seaboard Eastern North Carolina Eastern Seaboard dune crest heat tolerant sea ocean nature saline environment sand stabilization nascent dune structure protected grass Bogue Banks Crystal Coast Southern Outer Banks water waves sky macro
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Down to the Sea ~ Southern Outer Banks
"I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by;
And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea’s face, and a grey dawn breaking.

I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.

I must go down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life,
To the gull’s way and the whale’s way where the wind’s like a whetted knife;
And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover,
And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick’s over."
~ John Masefield
seas seaside jacob's ladder sky clouds water tide waves sand shore shoreline Atlantic Ocean Atlantic Seaboard Bogue Banks Crystal Coast barrier island seashore sea isle seascape Eastern Seaboard Eastern North Carolina East Coast nature coastal plain Southern Outer Banks beach
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Island Sunset ~ Southern Outer Banks
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." ~ Plato
island sunset evening Eastern Seaboard Eastern North Carolina fading daylight sundown dusk nightfall twilight eve eventide gloaming vesper evensong west Atlantic Ocean barrier island Bogue Banks Crystal Coast Emerald Isle red atol east coast coast Atlantic seaboard coastal plain Southern Outer Banks dunes grass sand home clouds sun birdsinflight sky
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Natural Texture Etchings by the Sea ~ Southern Outer Banks
“In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.” ~ Rachel Carson
etchings sand sea tide seaside beach Atlantic Ocean Eastern Seaboard barrier island ocean Bogue Banks Crystal Coast art tidewater art wave art coast coastline ripple marks tidal watercourse gifts from the sea tide marks low tide wet sand natural texture etchings by the sea sand ripples low tide sand texture patterns grains of sand
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Ankole-Watusi ~ Huron River and Watershed
“I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.” ~ Diane Arbus
ankole Huron River and Watershed AnkokeWatusi cattle Sanga very large horns central Africa American breed domestic zoo specimens usually red Domino's Farms highly social very active named after Watusi tribe of Africa strong protection instincts grazer animal fauna nature livestock Ankole longhorn status symbol Cattle of Kings symbolic importance dairy animal hybrid vigor novelty breed docile trainable hardy constitution prairie
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Land and Sea ~ Southern Outer Banks
“Photography is the story I fail to put into words.” ~ Destin Sparks
sea seaside seashore sea coast sea isle seascape ocean Atlantic Ocean Atlantic Eastern Seaboard Eastern North Carolina North Carolina shore shoreline sky waves water dunes nature waterscape Bogue Banks Crystal Coast island barrier island tide landscape grass dune grass sand beach seaboard
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blades of grass in late afternoon sun ~ Southern Outer Banks
"I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars." ~ Walt Whitman
flora ocean Eastern North Carolina North Carolina Crystal Coast Bogue Banks blades of grass barrier island island Atlantic Ocean Eastern Seaboard seaside sand grass shadows dunes beach anchor hardy leaves rhizomes living on the edge dune grass symbiotic relationship with fungi
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Kiteboarding ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Who has seen the wind?
Neither I nor you."
~ Christina Rossetti
clouds action sport wind Atlantic Ocean kite waves Emerald Isle Bogue Banks Crystal Coast island surf kiteboard kiteboarder kitepower rider sea ocean sky sand water beach wave people shore
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Garden Path by the Sea ~ Maine Coast
"The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him." ~ Auguste Rodin
seacoast garden path garden path lupines flowers sea Atlantic Ocean Maine Eastern Seaboard purple lupinus lupin plant legume family ornamental plant food source perennial bluebonnets quaker bonnets legume macro flower
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Low Tide ~ Winslow Cove, Maine Coast
"If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
Maine coast low tide Winslow Cove Penobscot cove water tide rocks ocean Atlantic Ocean Eastern Seaboard nature
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Shakespeare in the Arb ~ *Romeo and Juliet*
"Rehearsal in progress ~ prop swords in use." Matthei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum, University of Michigan. Live performance dates: June 7-10, 14-17, 21-24.
Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet tragedy Matthei Botanical Gardens Nichols Arboretum University of Michigan Shakespeare in the Arb dress rehearsal play starcrossed lovers romance Italian friends of Romeo and Juliet here
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Pink Peony and Friend ~ Huron River Watershed
"The earth laughs in flowers." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
petals garden plant ant peony paeony Paeonia herbaceous perennial Paeon medicinal nectar flower pink
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Mute Swan ~ Cygnus olor ~ Huron River
“Photography for me is not looking, it’s feeling. If you can’t feel what you’re looking at, then you’re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.” ~ Don McCullin
water adaptable cisne vulgar white bird elegant Huron River exotic cygnus olor mute swan swan aquatic habitats river
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By the Beautiful Sea ~ Southern Outer Banks
"By the sea, by the sea, by the beautiful sea! You and me, you and me, oh how happy we'll be!.... I love to be beside your side, beside the sea, beside the seaside, by the beautiful sea!" ~ Harold Atteridge/Harry Carroll ~ 1914
Eastern.Seaboard sea seaside ocean by the sea sand sky cloud water tide Bogue Banks Crystal Coast The Point Emerald Isle Atlantic Ocean Southern Outer Banks North Carolina surf dunes
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Sandhill Crane ~ Antigone canadensis ~ Huron River
"...nobility, won in the march of aeons." ~ Aldo Leopold
Sandhill Crane Antigone.canadensis elegance crimsoncapped gangly grace dancers trumpeters mate for life at least 2.5 millions years old live in open habitats buglers red crown large tall bird slate gray bird bird animal omnivorous Huron River
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Why did the turtle cross the road? ~ Huron River Watershed
"Because it wants to get to the other side!" ~ *The Knickerbocker* 1847
riddle turtle testudines bony shell cartilaginous shell shield diapsids reptile more ancient than snakes ectotherm coldblodded amniotes Chelonia shell Cryptodire carapace plastron road
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View from the Wild Blue Yonder
“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.” ~ J.M. Barrie
landscape
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Spring Gardens ~ Huron River and Watershed
"A fine and subtle spirit dwells in every little flower." ~ Anne Brontë
Virginia Cowslip Virginia Bluebells Mertensia virginica spring gardens flowers perennial herbaceous blue wildflower native to Missouri clumpforming dainty bulbous
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The Sea ~ Southern Outer Banks
"When you grow up by the sea, you spend a good deal of time looking at the horizon. You wonder what on Earth the waves might bring - and where the sea might deposit you - until one day you know you have lived between two places, the scene of arrival and the point of departure." ~ Andrew O'Hagan
dune dunes Emerald Isle North Carolina Eastern Seaboard sand Atlantic Ocean Bogue Banks Crystal Coast seaside ocean coastline shore seashore coast sea island barrier island sky water evening
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effects of time and tide ~ Southern Outer Banks
“At ebb tide I wrote a line upon the sand, and gave it all my heart and all my soul. At flood tide I returned to read what I had inscribed and found my ignorance upon the shore.” ~ Kahlil Gibran
barrier island island sea coast seashore shore coastline sunlight tide ocean seaside Crystal Coast Bogue Banks Atantic Ocean late afternoon sand Eastern Seaboard North Carolina Emerald Isle dunes fence dune beach sky water
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waiting ~ Southern Outer Banks
“The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach ~ waiting for a gift from the sea.” ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
swing glider beach Emerald Isle North Carolina Eastern North Carolina Eastern Seaboard sand dunes dune fence late afternoon water Atlantic Ocean Bogue Banks Crystal Coast seaside ocean waterscape tide sunlight coastline shore seashore sea sky wave dog coast island barrier island fence sea grass grass
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Tide Pools ~ Southern Outer Banks
“Perhaps this is the most important thing for me to take back from beach-living: simply the memory that each cycle of the tide is valid; each cycle of the wave is valid; each cycle of a relationship is valid.” ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
beach Emerald Isle North Carolina Eastern North Carolina Eastern Seaboard sand late afternoon water Atlantic Ocean Bogue Banks Crystal Coast seaside ocean waterscape tide sunlight coastline shore seashore sea sky wave dog person coast island barrier island
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House Finch ~ ~ Huron River Watershed
"I'm very happy being me, although sometimes I'd love to be a bird so that I could fly." ~ Joy Fielding
House Finch Finch Haemorhous mexicanus Perching.bird bird sparrow dipped in raspberry juice warbling song backyard animal
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Brown Pelican, Atlantic ~ Pelecanus occidentals ~ Southern Outer Banks
“Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.” ~ Marc Riboud
bird pelican Brown Pelican Atlantic Ocean Pelecanus occidentals seabird brown skin on throat pouch graybrown bird ocean sea seaside coast water waves divers gliders broad wings wingbeats slow deep powerful sea coast nest in colonies island barrier island North Carolina Eastern Seaboard Eastern North Carolina birdinflight onthewing wave
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Evening Stroll ~ Southern Outer Banks
"When the way looks infinitely long, if you are sure that it is the right way, ignore the distance and start walking!" ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
beach couple Emerald Isle North Carolina Eastern Seaboard Eastern North Carolina sand evening strolling walking water Atlantic Ocean Bogue Banks seaside ocean waterscape tide sunlight infinitely long
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Gales of March ~ Emerald Isle, North Carolina
"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
gales march gale wind sand surf ocean water waves beach Emerald Isle North Carolina Eastern Seaboard Eastern North Carolina barrier island island sea seaside tide sky Bogue Banks Crystal Coast nature whitecaps saltwter wave
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The Sea, Late Evening ~ Bogue Banks, North Carolina
“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever… It remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.” ~ Aaron Siskind
Bogue Banks Atlantic Ocean sea ocean seaside coastline water sand shore shoreline waves Crystal Coast North Carolina Eastern Seaboard Eastern North Carolina sun sunset beach sky wave landscape light coast
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Wave Rider ~ Emerald Isle, North Carolina
"We organize our circumstances into stories, stories we pick up along the way and carry with us. Stories that declare, I’m lacking. Why me? stories. I’m alone, stories. What will I amount to? stories. Stories about who we should be. Or think we are. They are interior maps whose familiar roads we travel. Over and over. Yet when we apprehend these maps, these stories, these patterns … we awaken and rise, as it were, to a new perspective, to new possibilities." ~ Jean-Pierre Weill
surfing surf's up Emerald Isle Crystal Coast Bogue Banks Atlantic Ocean waves water sea seaside seashore water sport wave rider surfer ocean riding a wave standup surfing part of ancient Polynesian culture surf bathing swell barrel wave tube wave surfing culture recreation coastline wetsuit whitewash North Carolina Eastern North Carolina Eastern Seaboard surfboard sky wave
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Foggy Dunes ~ Emerald Isle, North Carolina
"The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on."
~ Carl Sandburg
fog dunes Emerald Isle barrier fence barrier island foggy sand North Carolina Crystal Coast
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Wings of Willets ~ Tringa semipalmata ~ Emerald Isle, North Carolina
“In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.” ~ Ansel Adams
barrier island coastline shorebird North Carolina Crystal Coast Atlantic Ocean Emerald Isle birdinflight bird Tringa semipalmata willet waves sky water sea ocean animal wings
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Flora ~ Huron River, Michigan
"When I have a camera in my hands, I know no fear." ~ Alfred Eisenstaedt
flora Huron River Michigan grass plant summer
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Willet ~ Tringa semipalmata ~ Emerald Isle
"Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.”
~ Mary Oliver
shorebird distinctive wing markings piercing calls Tringa semipalmata willet Emerald Isle Atlantic Ocean beach Southern Outer Banks North Carolina barrier island sea ocean shore bird sand water
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Summer Gardens
"By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower." ~ Rabindranath Tagore
flowers summer summertime purple plant nature garden petals gardens macro flower
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European Starling, winter/non-breeding adult ~ Sturnus vulgaris ~ Huron River
"Just a dream and the wind to carry me and soon I will be free" ~ Carter Burwell
Sturnus vulgaris European Starling winternonbreeding adult bird songbird blackbird sized look like stars in flight white spots in winter boisterous short square tail black and white undertail yellow bill in summer aerial ballet Shakespeare enthusiasts added 100 to NA little genetic variations from 1st 100 vocal mimic strong flier
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Antique Rose Bush, After the Rain
"To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty." ~ Oscar Wilde
antique rose bush plant green raindrops garden nature old garden hardy fragant flowers old roses leaves red thorns stems
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Grove of Dancing Trees in Autumn
“There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy, and its charm.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
grove trees dancing nature outdoors autumn fall group of trees small wood plants flora stand branches twigs stems grass green crown scenery frolicking bark tree arboretum landscape
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Virginia Bluebells
"To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition, to know even one life breathed easier because you lived. This is to have succeeded." ~ attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson
Herbaceous perennial Virginia Bluebells Boraginaceae blue Mertensia virginica wildflower clumpforming pendulous trumpetshaped flowers plant blooms early spring leaves foliage ephemeral bellshaped flowers Virginia cowslip lungwort oysterleaf Roanoke bells butterflies most common pollinator buds pink macro flower
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Canada Geese ~ Branta canadensis ~ Huron River
"Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you." ~ Carl Sandburg
Michigan river Canada Goose Branta canadensis blacknecked signature white chinstrap mark honker waterbird bird birdsinflight field grazer vformation in flight water Huron River
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"Good tidings we bring to you and your kin."
origin of carol lies in English tradition, per Wikipedia
present Holiday lights good.tidings we wish you a merry christmas bronze horse candleholder rocking horse bokeh Christmas lights decoration Happy Holidays Happy New Year feliz navidad joyeux noël schöne weihnachten Merry Christmas
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Spirit of the Season
"For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business." ~ T. S. Eliot
spirit season tree green pine evergreen coniferous conifer pinus resinous bokeh needles longlived pine boughs Bach flower remedy macro plant water droplets reflection
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Ring-billed Gull ~ Larus delawarensis Larus delawarensis ~ Southern Outer Banks
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great." ~ "A League of Their Own"
ringbilled gull Larus delawarensis bird acrobat gull sociable opportunistic feeder ocean water sky inflight builtin compass oldest27 years adults play by scooping dropped objects sea waves animal
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flora ~ Huron River
"If you are tired, keep going. If you are scared, keep going. If you are hungry, keep going. If you want to taste freedom, keep going." ~ Harriet Tubman
flora Huron River Michigan grass plant sunlight autumn fall
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Evening Contrails
"Your imagination is the preview to life's coming attractions." ~ Albert Einstein
contrails evening condensation trails lineshaped clouds produced by aircraft engine exhaust several miles above earth primarily water in form of ice crystals homogenitus produced by changes in air pressure homomutatus cirrus aviaticus wingtip vortices biofuels radiative forcing clouds sky sunset
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Black-Crowned Night-Heron ~ Nycticorax nycticorax ~ Southern Outer Banks
"May the heron carry news of you to the heavens, and the salmon bring the sea's blue grace." ~ James Berlolino
BlackCrowned Night Heron Heron bird Southern Outer Banks North Carolina Emerald Isle stocky bird Pine Knoll Shores Waterway grayandblack plumage longwhite head plume social birds breed in colonies most widespread heron in world black crown foragers in evening roost and nest in groups wetland habitat feed between evening and morning monogamous
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Lily Pond ~ Huron River Watershed
"It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly." ~ Claude Monet
pond Huron River lilies lily pond still body of water marsh and aquatic plants plant habitat standing water wetland plants aquatic food web shelter for wildlife biological diversity shallow water lochan major contributor to local ecosystem Hindu temple ponds are sacred water
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