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Milk and Honey for the Monarch ~ Phyllis Haehnle Memorial Audubon Sanctuary, Michigan
"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed." ~ Khalil Gibran
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Red-tailed Hawk ~ Buteo jamaicensis ~ Great Lakes and Watershed ~ 2nd road trip for birding festival ~ September 2015
"If you see Mt. Fuji, a hawk, and an eggplant on New Year's Day, you will be forever blessed." ~ Japanese proverb
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Bald Eagle ~ Haliaeetus leucocephalus ~ Great Lakes and Watershed
"Fly like an eagle, let my spirit carry me." ~ Steve Miller
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Broad-winged Hawk ~ Buteo platypterus ~ Great Lakes and Watershed
"Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas.... rest your spirit in her solitary places." ~ Henry Beston
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American Kestrel ~ Falco sparverius ~ Great Lakes and Watershed
"Swift on the wing, powerful flight I soar, my tail spread wide I fly for freedom, I fly for life, on feathered wings I glide. I am Kestrel, the flyer, the soarer..... Prettiest of the Falcon blood, I have not a blue-bird's song and beauty, nor a Swan's long-necked grace. I am Kestrel, the proud, the beautiful, I am a Falcon, I am a Hawk...." ~ Erin Mazur
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Moorings ~ Huron River
"Mist veils the cold stream, and moonlight the sand, as I moor in the shadow of a river-tavern..." ~ Du Mu
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flowing streams ~ Huron River and Watershed
"When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come." ~ Leonardo DaVinci
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lean on me ~ Huron River and Watershed
"You just call on me, brother, when you need a hand
We all need somebody to lean on.
I just might have a problem that you'll understand,
We all need somebody to lean on."
~ Bill WithersTThoughtsareslowanddeepgoldeninthemorning. John Steinbeck
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Image of a Small Thing
"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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rivers in late summer ~ Huron River
"I started out thinking of America as highways and state lines. As I got to know it better, I began to think of it as rivers." ~ Charles Kuralt
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Great Egret ~ Ardea alba ~ Great Lakes and Watershed ~ 1st road trip for birding festival with instructor and class ~ September 2015
"On foot its movements are as graceful as those of the Louisiana Heron, its steps measured, its long neck gracefully retracted and curved, and its silk train reminded one of the flowing robes of the noble ladies of Europe." ~ James Audubon
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the feast ~ Huron River and Watershed
"The butterfly is a flying flower, the flower a tethered butterfly." ~ Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun
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papillon ~ perhaps an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail ~ Michigan
"If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere." ~ Vincent van Gogh
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U.S. Marine Corps C-130T "Fat Albert" ~ Thunder Over Michigan ~ August 2015
butterfly blue ~ ~ Huron River and Watershed
"she wore blue velvet, bluer than velvet was the night, softer than satin was the light...." ~ Lana del Ray
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silky milkweed seed adrift ~ Huron River and Watershed
"Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith." ~ Margaret Shepard
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spice from a million flowers
“Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.” ~ Ray Bradbury
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cut-leaf teasel ~ Huron River and Watershed
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” ~ Confucius
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pas de deux ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"And then she danced the dance of flowers in the wind." ~ Gibran
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Imaginings
"Sometimes it's the very people who no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine." ~ Alan Turing
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