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"In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this." ~ Terry Pratchett
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Welcome to My World! ~ Huron River and Watershed
"A single crocus blossom ought to be enough to convince our heart that springtime, no matter how predictable, is somehow a gift, gratuitous, gratis, a grace." ~ David Steindl-Rast
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Cincinnati
"Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair." ~ George Washington
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Sanderlings ~ Calidris alba ~ Southern Outer Banks
"The truth is, sometimes things don't happen to you for a reason. Sometimes it's just about being in the right place at the right time for someone else." ~ Jodi Picoult
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another view
"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” ~ Mother Teresa
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stand of crocus ~ Huron River and Watershed
"Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic." ~ Laini Taylor
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Charms in Winter ~ Huron River and Watershed
"...there are things which nobody would see unless I photographed them." ~ Diane Arbus
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Smell the Sea ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Smell the sea, feel the sky, let your soul and spirit fly...." ~ Van Morrison
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The Structure of Things
"Photography gives us...a feeling of the structure of things with an intensity which the eye...has hitherto been quite unable to perceive." ~ Otto Steinert
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Orchid
"The camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity." ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Amaryllis Flamenco Queen
"There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer." ~ Ansel Adams
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Between Sky and Sand ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Photography is by nature a documentary art." ~ August Sander
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Evening Glow ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Wherever there is light, one can photograph." ~ Alfred Stieglitz
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Mute Swan in Winter ~ Cygnus olor ~ Huron River
"Beauty, picturesqueness, and all loveliness are the food of art." ~ Henry Peach Robinson
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Evening on the Beach ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Nothing in nature has a hard outline, but everything is seen against something else, and its outlines fade gently into something else." ~ Peter Henry Emerson
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lone dwarf Alberta spruce in winter ~ Huron River
"...so small a space contains the image of the universe..." ~ Leonardo da Vinci
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Red-tailed Hawk ~ Buteo jamaicensis ~ Huron River and Watershed
"The camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.” ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
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sunlight in tall grass ~ Texas
"I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight." ~ Louis Daguerre
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Happy Valentine's Day 2017
"The rose is red, the violet's blue, the honey's sweet, and so are you." ~ from Gammer Gurton's 1784 English nursery rhyme collection
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Blue-Rimmed Vase with Reflection
“Il n'y a d'heureux que ceux dont l'âme imprègne, illumine le corps et vit en symbiose avec lui.” ~ Pierre Charbonneau
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Here's Looking at You, Kid
“Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world." ~ Humphrey Bogart, *Casablanca*
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Mighty Mississippi
"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man." ~ Heraclitus
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Orchard at Birtwick ~ Pacific Coast
"My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard at Birtwick, standing with my friends under the apple trees." Anna Sewell, *Black Beauty*
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This Land Is Your Land....
"This land is your land,
This land is my land,
From California to the New York Island,
From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters,
This land was made for you and me.
As I went walking that ribbon of highway
I saw above me that endless skyway,
I saw below me that golden valley,
This land was made for you and me.
I roamed and I rambled, and I followed my footsteps
To the sparking sands of her diamond deserts,
All around me a voice was sounding,
This land was made for you and me.
When the sun came shining, then I was strolling,
And the wheat fields waving, and the dust clouds rolling,
A voice was chanting as the fog was lifting,
This land was made for you and me."
~ Woodie GuthrieThis LandContinental United StatesskymountainslandEndless Skywaycloudsrocky outcroppingshillsvastnessoutdoorflightvalleyssummertimebirthday
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Road to Napa ~ Pacific Coast
"... life gushes and bubbles around me in a thousand springs" ~ Robert Schumann
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Talk to Me of Mendocino ~ Pacific Coast
Thanks to Robert W Watt for the title inspiration.
"Talk to me of Mendocino
Closing my eyes I hear the sea
Must I wait, must I follow?
Won't you say "Come with me?"
And it's on to Southbend, Indiana
Flat out on the western plain
Rise up over the Rockies and down on into California
Out to where but the rocks remain
And let the sun set on the ocean
I will watch it from the shore
Let the sun rise over the redwoods
I'll rise with it till I rise no more."
~ written by Kate McGarrigle, sung by Linda RonstadMendocino CountycovewaterwavestideskybluffsseashoresandFort BraggrocksPacific OceannatureeveningseaoceanseascapeseasbeachCaliforniacoastalpicturesqueRoute 1sandy beachsurfdunesoutdoorshorecoastbirthday
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Sandy Bluffs of Fort Bragg ~ Pacific Coast
“Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies. ~ Diane Arbus
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Rocky Bluffs ~ Pacific Coast
“In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.” ~ Ansel Adams
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Pacific Light ~ Pacific Coast
“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
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on the waterfront ~ Pacific Coast
"...Where those fishing boats
With their sails afloat
If I could only see
That familiar sunrise
Through sleepy eyes
How happy I'd be."
~ Roy Orbison, Joe Melsonboatwatchj van cise photosfishingPacificcoastseaoceanwharfdockboatsshipsskywateroutdoorwaterfrontbirthday
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Oregon Coast
"Land of the Empire Builders, Land of the Golden West;
Conquered and held by free men, Fairest and the best.
On-ward and upward ever, Forward and on, and on;
Hail to thee, Land of the Heroes, My Oregon.
Land of the rose and sunshine, Land of the summer's breeze;
Laden with health and vigor, Fresh from the western seas.
Blest by the blood of martyrs, Land of the setting sun;
Hail to thee, Land of Promise, My Oregon."
~ J. A. BuchananOregoncoastoceanPacificbeachshoreskywatercloudsseaseacoastwavesbluechallenge
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perspective ~ Great Lakes and Watershed
Word for the Day ~ occhiolism
n. the awareness of the smallness of your perspective.
~ John KoenigstrollingGreat Lakes and WatershedskywaterwharflightLake MichiganMichigancoastlinelandscapeshorecoastoutdoorbirthday
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rambling beach house ~ Great Lakes and Watershed
Word for the Day ~ sonder
n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own ~ populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness ~ an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk." ~ *The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows*ramblingbeachhouseLake Michiganshoresonderbirthday
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Outside that Sunny Summer Window ~ Ohio River Valley
"The peddler has arrived at a substantial old farmhouse on a warm and sunny summer's day (a door and several windows are open, and the flowers ~ many of them staked or potted ~ are in full bloom)." ~ William T. Oedell
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Gothic Spires of Wisdom at Old Kenyon ~ Ohio River Valley
"In any modern society, and between all such societies, there are many conflicting interests that are more or less irreconcilably opposed. Pursuing their interests, persons and groups try to block each other, and this blocking invites retaliation.... The blocking and retaliation readily take violent forms. In the end, politics are about finding ways to manage and restrain this struggle. Those who become expert on political issues, who advise political actors, or who themselves take leading roles in the political effort to maintain civility and peace engage in the highest of human callings." ~ Gary P. Freeman, Chair, Department of Government, University of Texas @ Austin
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Before the Ascension ~ Commencement 2007, Samuel Mather Hall, Kenyon College, Ohio
*Kokosing Farewell*
Old Kenyon, we are like Kokosing,
Obedient to some strange spell,
Which urges us from all reposing;
Farewell, Old Kenyon,
Fare thee well.
And yet we are not like Kokosing,
Which beareth naught upon its swell
But foam of motion's own composing;
Farewell, Old Kenyon,
Fare thee well.
But when we are far from Kokosing,
We still shall hear a calling bell,
When round us evening shades are closing;
Farewell, Old Kenyon,
Fare thee well.
And see a river like Kokosing,
In meadows sweet with asphodel,
Where mem'ry dwells dear past supposing;
Farewell, Old Kenyon,
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The Pier ~ Lake Michigan
"A pier is a disappointed bridge; yet stare at it for long enough and you can dream it to the other side of the Channel." ~ Julian Barnes
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Corner Table ~ Ohio River Valley
"There's a table in the corner
Of a honky-tonk in town
And if you should ever want me
There I can be found."
~ Conway Twittyj van cise photostableseatingsquarestilesmodernbirthday
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Dream Café ~ Ohio River Valley
"I'm in the corner with the coffee
at The Dream Café." ~ Greg Brownj van cise photosdreamcafeOhio River Valleycorner tablecoffeebirthday
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a winter's day ~ Michigan
"A winter's day...gazing from my window....on a freshly fallen, silent shroud of snow.." ~ Simon & Garfunkel
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Looking at Penobscot Bay from the Top of Mount Battie, Camden Hills State Park ~ Eastern Seaboard
"All I could see from where I stood
Was three mountains and a wood;
I turned and looked the other way,
And saw three islands in a bay..."
~ Edna St. Vincent MillayPenobscot.BayMainewaterskymistCamdenMount.BattieCamden Hills State ParknatureviewislandEastern SeaboardseaPenosbscotoutdoorseascapecoastshorebirthday
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sunlight and morning dew at the harbor ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Playfully looking up,
I run around in circles
with my mouth wide open,
trying to catch the dew drops
dripping off the needles
before the sun wakes up
to steal them away."
~ Jonny AngelsunlightmorningdewharborSouthern Outer BanksNorth CarolinaCrystal CoastEmerald IsleBogue Bankssoundsidewaterboatdew drops
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Traveling Along Route 6 in Pennsylvania
As a few of my ancestors began to move out of the Upper Hudson River Valley, they sometimes settled in areas along this route. "Named by National Geographic as 'One of America's most scenic drives,' US Route 6 in Pennsylvania is the heart of the American Dream. This magical and tranquil highway along Pennsylvania's northern tier is 400-plus miles of history and heritage, linking small towns, generations of people and wondrous sights often forgotten." ~ http://www.paroute6.com
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"Waiting 'round the bend...."
"Moon River, wider than a mile.
I'm crossing you in style some day.
Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker,
Wherever you're goin', I'm goin' your way.
Two drifters, off to see the world.
There's such a lot of world to see.
We're after the same rainbow's end.
Waitin' 'round the bend, my huckleberry friend,
Moon River, and me.
Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker,
Wherever you're goin', I'm goin' your way.
Two drifters, off to see the world,
There's such a lot of world to see.
We're after that same rainbow's end.
Waiitin' 'round the bend, my huckleberry friend,
Moon River, and me."
~ Johnny Mercer, Henry ManciniriverHuron RiverautumnMichiganwaterfallcolorsreflectionsriver bendtreesleavesyellowredfoliagesereneoutdoorlandscapechallenge
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greenery ~ Eastern Seaboard
"I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring." ~ David Bowie
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cool, blue morning ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify." ~ Henry David Thoreau
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