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Royal Tern in Flight ~ Thalasseus maximus ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Nature, whose sweet rains fall of just and unjust alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undetected. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole." ~ Oscar Wilde
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Sound-side ~ Southern Outer Banks
"I am convinced that most people do not grow up. We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think that what we do is mostly grow old. We carry an accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias." ~ Maya Angelou
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Narcissus ~ Amaryllidaceae ~ Southern Outer Banks
"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change." ~ Albert Einstein
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Sanderlings ~ Calidris alba ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise." ~ Margaret Atwood
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Narcissus ~ Amaryllidaceae ~ Southern Outer Banks
"The Earth laughs in flowers." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Yucca ~ Asparagaceae ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Nothing is ever really lost." ~ Walt Whitman
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the island, near sunset ~ Southern Outer Banks ~ 4th winter sojourn to Pine Knoll Shores, North Carolina ~ January 2016
"It's a funny thing, how much time we spend planning our lives. We so convince ourselves of what we want to do, that sometimes we don't see what we're meant to do." ~ Susan Gregg Gilmore
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Maui, our beautiful Oriental Shorthair
"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats." ~ Albert Schweitzer
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Brown Pelican ~ Pelecanus occidentalis ~ Southern Outer Banks
"In the midst of winter, I found that there lies, within me, an invincible summer." ~ Albert Camus
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Great Blue Heron ~ Ardea herodias ~ Southern Outer Banks
"In the quiet morning." ~ Mimi Fariña, sister of Joan Baez
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After Springtime ~ Huron River and Watershed
"Earth, my dearest, oh believe me, you no longer need your springtimes to win me over...Unspeakably, I have belonged to you, from the flush." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
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flying White Ibis ~ Eudocimus albus ~ Southern Outer Banks
“I go to seek a Great Perhaps.” ~ François Rabelais
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Maui ~ Ebony-spotted Oriental Shorthair
"Eventually they will understand,
Replied the glorious cat
For I will whisper into their hearts
That I am always with them
I just am....forever and ever and ever."
~ *Poem for Cats,* author unknownFrom *master gallery
a Courtin'
"Froggie Went a Courtin'" ~ Woody Guthrie ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCjkuF5F3kk
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Great Egret ~ Ardea alba ~ Great Lakes and Watershed
"If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes." ~ Charles Lindbergh
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sunny yellow ~ Huron River and Watershed
“Everything you can imagine is real.” ~ Pablo Picasso
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summer thoughts ~ Huron River and Watershed
"The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of." ~ Leonardo da Vinci
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wind chimes
"Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing." ~ William James
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American Goldfinch, winter plumage ~ Spinus tristis ~ Huron River and Watershed
"There are adventures of the spirit...as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books to read in the long winter evenings." ~ D. E. Stevenson
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Detroit, across the Belle Isle Bridge
"Everything you can imagine is real." ~ Pablo Picasso
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American Avocets, breeding plumage ~ Recurvirostra americana ~ solo road trip to Lake Michigan to visit with cousin and family ~ July 2014
"Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead." ~ Louisa May Alcott
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fishing ~ Hancock Pond, Maine
"Then he felt the gentle touch on the line, and he was happy." ~ Ernest Hemingway
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wind chimes
"'Listen,' she whispered and pointed towards the window. ‘Whenever the wind blows from the east, and the wind chimes dance in the moonlight, there is magic in the air." ~ Carole Carlton
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on the beach ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Our greatest experiences are our quietest moments." ~ Friedrick Neitzsche
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evening by the sea ~ Southern Outer Banks
"For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), it's always our self we find in the sea." ~ e. e. cummings
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into the woods ~ Huron River and Watershed
"It was her habit to build laughter out of inadequate materials." ~ John Steinbeck
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sand pebbles ~ Southern Outer Banks
"It's amazing to think that these pebbles have been erosed and smoothed out over the millennia by ocean waves. I think I'll taken them and use them to make a path to my garden." ~ William L. Bergenstein
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Holiday Spirit
"This is my wish for you: peace of mind, prosperity through the year, happiness that multiplies, health for you and yours, fun around every corner, energy to chase your dreams, joy to fill your holidays!" ~ D.M. Dellinger
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Cessna 195 and Monocoupe 110 Special "Gee Bee" (keepsakes)
"Flyers feel a certain kinship with the sight of the earth unencrusted by humanity, they want to see it that way in one sweeping view, in reassurance that nature still exists on her own, without a chain-link fence to hold her." ~ Richard Bach
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Albert Kahn, Architectural Design, 1904 ~ Michigan
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
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all the beauty ~ Huron River and Watershed
"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy." ~ Anne Frank
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red leaves in winter ~ Michigan
"When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence." ~ Ansel Adams
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pickerel rush and early morning light ~ Hancock Pond, Maine
"Let us look for secret things somewhere in the world, on the blue shore of silence or where the storm has passed, rampaging like a train. There the faint signs are left, coins of time and water, debris, celestial ash and the irreplaceable rapture of sharing in the labour of solitude and the sand." ~ Pablo Neruda
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Mute Swan ~ Cygnus olor ~ Huron River
"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
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on the wing again ~ Canada Geese ~ Branta canadensis ~ Huron River and Watershed
"There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor." ~ Charles Dickens
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October Magic ~ Huron River
"Make your own magic -- life's too short not to fill it with everything that makes you smile." ~ Unknown
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reflections of the fall ~ Huron River
"Do what makes you happy. Look upon what gives you joy. Listen to what lifts your spirit. Speak to those who warm your heart. Surround yourself with sights and sounds and people who make you smile." ~ Unknown
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rushing a river ~ Huron River
"There is no rushing a river. When you go there, you go at the pace of the water and that pace ties you into a flow that is older than life on this planet. Acceptance of that pace, even for a day, changes us, reminds us of other rhythms beyond the sound of our own heartbeats." ~ Jeff Rennicke
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misty evening ~ Hancock Pond, Maine
"To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts." ~ Henry David Thoreau
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