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Chinese Elm Bonsai with Movement ~ Ulmus parvifolia, Ulmaceae, Asia
"The object is not to make the tree look like a bonsai but to make the bonsai look like a tree." ~ John Naka
Started: 1980; Trained Since 2000. Donated to Matthaei Botanical Gardens, Michigan, by Dr. William Heston.red and tan mottlingflaking barkChinese ElmBonsaiUlmus parvifoliatreetrunk rootsUlmaceaeAsiaMatthaei Botanical GardensMichiganNebarileavesbranchestrunk linetrunk movementapical structurefoliar volumefoliar formtexturebarkdesignbalancetray planingJapanese art formtree grown in containertradition dates back over a thousand yearspenzaiminiature treelongterm cultivationcrown and rootpruningsmall leavescompact visual scopenot dwarfingprunedroots reduceddefoliationgraftedwoodmottlingsmooth barkLacebark elmhardest of elmspeppery or spicy odorred and tan mottling of bark
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The Window ~ Cotswold Cottage, The Henry Ford
"Set wide the window. Let me drink the day." ~ Edith Wharton
windowCotswold Cottageivyfrom Southwest EnglandThe Henry Fordstone ornamentationbuilt circa 1619stoneworked rockChedworthGloucesterUnited KingdomGreenfield Villagelightglasscasementgreendrink the daycobwebapertureframesashcasingmullionleaded glasscottage
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MG ~ Old Car
“Dreams do come true...never stop believing.” ~ Josh Davis
foreign carMGold carMorris GaragesEnglishautomarqueMG Car Company LimitedBritishsports cartwoseaterMorris Motors Limited1923 inceptionMG BadgeoctoganCarbodies of Coventrywheels'transportationautomobile
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Hanks Silk Mill ~ Built in 1812 near Mansfield, Connecticut
"Silk comes from the silkworm, which is really a caterpillar. One cocoon contains a single strand of silk up to 1,000 yards long. Workers spent tedious hours here, tending to the silkworms and spinning thread from their cocoons. The Hanks family ran this mill, which is believed to be the first water-powered silk mill in the United States. The thread they made in the mill was sold across the country. They later moved into a larger mill, where they continued to make thread until the 1920s." ~ Site posting. Current location, Greenfield Village, Michigan
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"Blue Macchia with Yellow Lip" ~ Dale Chihuly, 1999 ~ Greenfield Village
“My work to this day revolves around a simple set of circumstances: fire, molten glass, human breath, spontaneity, centrifugal force, gravity.” ~ Dale Chihuly
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Double-crested Cormorant ~ Phalacrocorax auritus ~ Pine Knoll Waterway, Southern Outer Banks
"In the Greek tale of Ulysses, after a storm broke the mast of Ulysses' raft, a sea nymph disguised herself as a cormorant and handed Ulysses a girdle to keep him afloat while he swam to shore." ~ https://www.cliffsnotes.com/cliffsnotes/subjects/literature/what-does-the-cormorant-bird-symbolize-in-mythology
doublecrested cormorantPhalacrocorax auritusganglyprehistoriclookingfishing birdbirdwaterbirdsshaped crook to neckPine Knoll WaterwaySouthern Outer BanksNorth CarolinaEmerald Islewaterwingsseabird
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Marsh Reflections ~ Huron River Watershed
“I have an immoderate passion for water; for the sea, though so vast, so restless, so beyond one's comprehension; for rivers, beautiful, yet fugitive and elusive; but especially for marshes, teeming with all that mysterious life of the creatures that haunt them. A marsh is a whole world within a world, a different world, with a life of its own, with its own permanent denizens, its passing visitors, its voices, its sounds, its own strange mystery.” ~ Guy de Maupassant
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vicissitudes
"Joy is a spiritual element that gives vicissitudes unity and significance." ~ Helen Keller
significantunityjoyvicissitudefortunecircumstanceschangesshiftsturnsvariationsoppositesmutabilitychangeablechancefluctuationcourse of actiontransformationpermutationalterationshiftvariation
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Seaons
"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells."
~ John Keatsleavesautumnfalltreebokehredwater dropletsseasontransitionmapledeciduouspassing of the yearancient Etruscan root autu' harvest timefall of the yearred leaveslush abundanceMichigan Octoberleafpeepingfoliagemacro
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Swing Set on a Rainy Day
"How do you like to go up in a swing,
Up in the air so blue?
Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing
Ever a child can do!
Up in the air and over the wall,
Till I can see so wide,
Rivers and trees and cattle and all
Over the countryside—
Till I look down on the garden green,
Down on the roof so brown—
Up in the air I go flying again,
Up in the air and down!"
~ Robert Louis Stevensonswing setswingsplaygroundparkbelt seatspendantchainspolessuspenddanglemove back and forthplaypumprainyplaytime
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Cobblestone Farm ~ Huron River and Watershed
"If the beard were all, goats could preach." ~ Danish Proverb
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Venus Flytrap ~ Dionaea muscipula Droseraceae
“The great wonder of the vegetable kingdom is a very curious unknown species of Sensitive. It is a dwarf plant. The leaves are like a narrow segment of a sphere, consisting of two parts, like the cap of a spring purse, the concave part outwards, each of which falls back with indented edges (like an iron spring fox-trap); upon anything touching the leaves, or falling between them, they instantly close like a spring trap, and confine any insect or anything that falls between them. It bears a white flower. To this surprising plant I have given the name of Fly trap Sensitive.” ~ Arthur Dobbs
Venus.flytrapfly trapbogcarnivoroushinged leavesdigests insectsnative to southeastern U.S.Venus's flytrapDionaea muscipulaVenus' flytrapnative to subtropical wetlandsNorth CarolinaSouth CarolinaFloridatrapping structureherbGreen Swampalternative medicine perhapsmacroflowerplant
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downtown Chicago
“...a city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.” ~ Nelson Algren
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Black-Crowned Night-Heron ~ Nycticorax nycticorax ~ Southern Outer Banks
“How often, in the gathering dusk of evening, have we heard its loud, choking squawk and, looking up, have seen its stocky form, dimly outlined against the gray sky and propelled by steady wing beats, as it wings its way high in the air toward its evening feeding place in some distant pond or marsh!” ~ Arthur Bent
BlackCrowned Night HeronbirdSouthern Outer BanksNycticorax nycticorasmost active at nightgray and black plumagelongwhite head plumesheronsocial birdscommon in wetlandsskypinesbirdinflight
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Brown Pelicans at Dusk ~ Pelecanus occidentalis ~ Southern Outer Banks
"A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other." ~ Charles Dickens
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Sandhill Crane ~ Antigone canadensis ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"Nobility, won in the march of aeons." ~ Aldo Leopald
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The Fisherman
"Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then." ~ Garrison Keillor
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Chess Set by Gianni Toso, 1988 ~ Sculpture in Glass and Wood
Gift of Bruce and Ann Bachmann ~ on exhibit at Henry Ford Museum, Davidson-Gerson Modern Glass Gallery
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Merino Sheep ~ Greenfield Village
"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty." ~ Abraham Lincoln
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A Little Farm-Fresh History ~ Greenfield Village
"I don't know what I may seem to the world, but, as to myself, I seem have been only as a boy [/girl] playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." ~ Isaac Newton
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Percherons ~ Greenfield Village
"It is easy to be impressed by what one does not understand very well." ~ G. H. Hardy
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1929 Auburn 120 Boattail Speedster
Owned by Gerald Daugherty, Plymouth, Michigan
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Washstand, Sarah Jordan Boarding House, currently, Greenfield Village
Sarah Jordan Boarding HouseGreenfield VillageMichiganMenlo ParkNew Jersey complexallmale environmentboardinghouseroom.and.boardunmarried employeesSarah Jordan was distant relative of Edisonplayed host to experimental lighting system 1879windowroomwashstandbuilding constructed circa 1870wood and plasterNew JerseyEdisonlodging housebuildingstructureFrancis JehlSarah Jordan's roombedroombirthday
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1929 Auburn 120 Boattail Speedster
owned by Gerald Daugherty, Plymouth, Michigan
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Cotswold Dreams
This particular Cotswold Cottage was built in the early 1600s in Chedworth, Gloucestershire, England and now stands in Greenfield Village, Michigan.
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Peddling Back in Time ~ Greenfield Village Old Car Festival
period costumevintageGreenfield VillageOld Car FestivalMichiganback in timepedalingbicyclecyclinghistorichigh wheelsbikepennyfarthinghighwheelerordinarypenny leading a farthingsymbol of late Victorian eradirect drivepeopleboys will be boysbirthday
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Ankole-Watusi (African Long-Horned) Bull ~ Domino's Farms, Michigan
AnkoleWatusiAfrican LongHornBullcattleAfricanCattle.of.Kingsancestry dates back more than 6000 yearsbovineanimalhornsconsidered sacredstriking markingsprivate herdbirthday
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B-25 Mitchell "Yankee Warrior" ~ Air Show, Michigan
B-25 Mitchell "Yankee Warrior"
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Eventide Ripples ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Don't look away. Look straight at everything. Look it all in the eye, good and bad." ~ Henry Miller
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Common Grackle ~ Quiscalus quiscula ~ Huron River and Watershed, Michigan (urban feeder)
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Fir ~ Huron River and Watershed
"Earth teach me stillness
as the grasses are stilled with light.
Earth teach me suffering
as old stones suffer with memory.
Earth teach me humility
as blossoms are humble with beginning.
Earth teach me caring
as the mother who secures her young.
Earth teach me courage
as the tree which stands alone.
Earth teach me limitation
as the ant which crawls on the ground.
Earth teach me freedom
as the eagle which soars in the sky.
Earth teach me resignation
as the leaves which die in the fall.
Earth teach me regeneration
as the seed which rises in the spring.
Each teach me to forget myself
as melted snow forgets its life.
Earth teach me to remember kindness
as dry fields weep in the rain."
~ Ute, North Americanfirgreentreeplantsummertimenatureoutdoorsmacroevergreenconiferous Pinaceaetwig carries needles singlyconestimberresinpyramidalfir needles are softflat and cannot be rolled between fingerssmooth barkAbies spp.birthday
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Mallard ~ Anas platyrhynchos ~ Huron River
Yoga Backbend: Cobra Pose or Bhugangasana ~ strengthens spine, stimulates abdominal organs, helps relieve stress and fatigue.
Anas.platyrhynchosMallardduckHuron Riverriverwatermalegleaming green headblack tailcurldabbling duckwetland habitatbirdanimalwingedbirthday
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One Bright Spring Evening
"He said, 'One life on this earth is all that we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem to be that at the very least we are fools if we do not live it as fully and bravely and beautifully as we can.'" ~ Frederick Buechner
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Magnolia Blossom ~ Huron River and Watershed
“Have you ever looked at the bud of a magnolia flower? It’s a tight little pod that stays closed up for a long time on the end of its branch until one day, out of nowhere, it finally bursts open into this gigantic, gorgeous, fragrant flower that’s ten times bigger than the bud itself. It’s impossible to imagine that such a big beautiful thing could pop out of that tiny little bud. But it does.” ~ Joanna Gaines
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Horned Grebes ~ Podiceps auritus ~ Southern Outer Banks
This pair are in prealternate molt ~ mostly in breeding plumage but retaining some winter plumage.
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Blue Daniel Bear ~ Oriental Shorthair
"What greater gift than the love of a cat." ~ Charles Dickens
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Red-breasted Merganser ~ Mergus serrator ~ Southern Outer Banks
"What good are wings without the courage to fly." ~ Atticus
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White Ibis, Spreading its Wings ~ Eudocimus albus ~ Southern Outer Banks
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." ~ E.E. Cummings
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Assemblé ~ Great Egret ~ Ardea alba ~ Southern Outer Banks
"An Assemblé in classical ballet has many different variations, but the basics are always the same: two legs joining together in the air." ~ ballethub.com
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American Red Squirrel ~ Tamiasciurus hudsonicus ~ Huron River and Watershed
"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." ~ Albert Einstein
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