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Blue Jay ~ Cyanocitta cristata ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated." ~ Terry Tempest Williams
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wild Columbine ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"With freedom, books. flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?" ~ Oscar Wilde
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Japanese Tree Peony ~ Michigan
"In the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught." ~ Baba Dioum
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wisteria ~ Michigan
"Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography." ~ George Eastman
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American Flamingo ~ Phoenicopterus ruber
"Beauty lingers somewhere in the twilight, waiting for us to find it, never quite ready to have its picture taken." Jim Richardson, National Geographic Photographer
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polar bear, enjoying his swim
"Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us." ~ Leo Tolstoy
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Bald Eagle ~ Haliaeetus leucocephalus
"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper." ~ W.B. Yeats
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The Royal Tern Trio ~ Thalasseus maximus ~ Southern Outer Banks
"To make living itself an art, that is the goal." ~ Henry Miller
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Royal Tern ~ Thalasseus maximus ~ Southern Outer Banks
"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong." ~ Joseph Chilton Pearce
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Northern Mockingbird ~ Mimus polyglottos ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." ~ Pablo Picasso
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Forster's Tern ~ Sterna forsteri ~ Southern Outer Banks
“So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings...” ~ J. M. Barrie
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sunset ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is not art." ~ Leonardo da Vinci
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sand fence ~ beach preservation and dune restoration ~ Southern Outer Banks
"It never hurts to keep looking for sunshine." ~ Eeyore
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Double-crested Cormorant ~ Phalacrocorax auritus ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused." ~ unknown
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Tree Swallow ~ Tachycineta bicolor ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Whatever you decide to do, make sure it makes you happy." ~ unknown
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Pileated Woodpecker ~ Dryocopus pileatus ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Stories never really end... even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories alway go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page." ~ Cornelia Funke
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sanderlings snoozing ~ Calidris alba ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Poetry: the power to persuade that vulnerable part of our consciousness of its rightness in spite of wrongness all around." ~ Seamus Heaney
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Forster's Tern ~ Sterna forsteri ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I ~ I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." ~ Robert Frost
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Forster's Tern ~ Sterna forsteri ~ Southern Outer Banks
"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there." ~ Lewis Carroll
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double-crested cormorant ~ Southern Outer Banks
"the earth has music for those who listen." ~ Shakespeare
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sunset ~ Southern Outer Banks
"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else."
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Double-crested Cormorant ~ Phalacrocorax auritus ~ Southern Outer Banks
"the meaning of life is to find your gift. the purpose of life is to give it away." ~ William Shakespeare
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Black-Crowned Night-Heron ~ Nycticorax nycticorax ~ Southern Outer Banks
"You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." ~ A. A. Milne
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Bonaparte's Gull (adult in winter plumage) ~ Chroicocephalus philadelphia ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion." ~ Martha Graham
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the sea, with sunlight ~ Southern Outer Banks
"And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good." ~ John Steinbeck
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Double-crested Cormorant ~ Phalacrocorax auritus ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim." ~ Tyler Knott Gregson
It's not what you look at that mattersit's what you see. Henry David Thoreau
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Great Egret ~ Ardea alba ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance." ~ Gibran
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Tricolored Heron (formerly, Louisiana Heron) ~ Egretta tricolor ~ Cedar Island National Wildlife Refuge, Outer Banks
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring what is within us out into the world, miracles happen." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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flying White Ibis ~ Eudocimus albus ~ Southern Outer Banks
"I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell." ~ Walt Whitman
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American Avocets, breeding plumage ~ Recurvirostra americana~ Great Lakes
"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new." ~ Socrates
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American Avocets, breeding plumage ~ Recurvirostra americana ~ Lake Michigan
“I'm not telling you it's going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.” ~ Art Williams
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sand and foam ~ Southern Outer Banks
"I am forever walking upon these shores,
Betwixt the sand and the foam,
The high tide will erase my foot-prints,
And the wind will blow away the foam.
But the sea and the shore will remain
Forever.
Once I filled my hand with mist.
Then I opened it and lo, the mist was a worm.
And I closed and opened my hand again, and behold there was a bird.
And again I closed and opened my hand, and in its hollow stood a man with a sad face, turned upward.
And again I closed my hand, and when I opened it there was naught but mist.
But I heard a song of exceeding sweetness." ~ Kahlil GibranFrom *master gallery
Brown Pelican ~ Pelecanus occidentalis ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Live in the sunshine. Swim the sea. Drink the wild air." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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elegant Great Egret ~ Ardea alba ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and the shadows will fall behind you." ~ Walt Whitman
elegant Great EgretArdea albaOuter Banks
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long, tall grass ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious." ~ Brendan Gill
grasstall grassSouthern Outer Banks
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fishing from the jetty ~ a year later ~ Southern Outer Banks
"A friend is someone who reaches for your hand but touches your heart." ~ Anonymous
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Sanderling ~ Calidris alba ~ Old Saugatuck, Michigan
"In order to see birds, it is necessary to become part of the silence." ~ Robert Lind
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May your days be merry and bright!
This line comes from the song, *White Christmas,* written by Irving Berlin ~ full lyrics are below. Clyde McPhatter, of the Drifters, sings one of my favorite versions of the song.
"I'm dreaming of a White Christmas
Just like the ones I used to know
Where the treetops glisten
and children listen
To hear sleigh bells in the snow.
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Christmas card I write
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white.
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Christmas card I write
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white."From *master gallery
tall grass ~ Huron River Watershed
"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." ~ Winston Churchill
tall grassHuron River Watershedchallenge
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Blue Jay by the river ~ Cyanocitta cristata ~ Huron River Watershed
"You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants." ~ Stephen King
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swaying ~ Huron River Watershed
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails." ~ William Arthur Ward
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Cedar Waxwing ~ Bombycilla cedrorum ~ Southern Outer Banks
A ogni uccello il suo nido è bello." ~ Unknown
Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorumNorth CarolinaFort MaconAtlantic OceanBogue BanksCrystal CoastbirdNikon D7100Southern Outer BanksAFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II
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seashell by the seashore II
"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere." ~ Anais Nin
shellNikon D7100North CarolinaseashoregoldenBogue BanksCrystal CoastPine Knoll ShoresAtlantic Oceantribute
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ring-billed gull ~ Larus delawarensis ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Make your own magic -- life's too short not to fill it with everything that makes you smile." ~ Unknown
AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IINikon D7100birdringbilled gullLarus delawarensisAtlantic OceanCrystal CoastPine Knoll ShoresBogue BanksNorth Carolinabirdinflight
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Hooded Merganser ~ Lophodytes cucullatus ~ Huron River
"When your spirit cries for peace, come to a world of canyons deep in an old land; feel the exultation of high plateaus, the strength of moving waters, the simplicity of sand and grass, and the silence of growth." ~ August Fruge
Hooded MerganserNikon D7100Huron RiverMichiganbirdLophodytes cucullatusAFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IIwaterfowlduckcrested
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wild creature ~ Huron River Watershed
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." ~ Mark Twain
fawnHuron River WatershedNikon D7100deerMichiganAFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II
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Brown Pelican ~ Pelecanus occidentalis ~ Southern Outer Banks
"It's a new canvas and I am painting wide and free, remembering what I was then, am now, and ought to be." ~ Alice Boley
birdNikon D7100AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IINorth CarolinaPine Knoll ShoresBogue BanksCrystal CoastAtlantic OceanbirdinflightBrown PelicanPelicans occidentals
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the jetty ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art." ~ Andy Warhol
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