Eastern Seaboard
Read MoreRing-billed Gull ~ Larus delawarensis ~ Southern Outer Banks
"The quieter you become, the more you can hear...." ~ Ram Dass
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Old Colony Council ~ Southern Outer Banks
"I don't mind being bones and feathers. I just want to know what I can do in the air and what I can't, that's all. I just want to know." ~ J. L. Seagull
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on the wing ~ Southern Outer Banks ~ 2nd winter sojourn to Pine Knoll Shores, North Carolina, with special guests ~ January 6, 2014
“There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they find to laugh at.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The Gathering Storm ~ Southern Outer Banks
“It is where the balance quivers, and the proportions are veiled in mist, that the opportunity for world-saving decisions presents itself.” ~ Winston S. Churchill
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Sanderlings, with Sleeping Dunlins
"Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child." ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Evening Stroll ~ Southern Outer Banks
"When the way looks infinitely long, if you are sure that it is the right way, ignore the distance and start walking!" ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
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The Sea, Late Evening ~ Bogue Banks, North Carolina
“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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jellyfish ~ road trip to Newport Aquarium, Cincinnati, Ohio ~ June 2013
"Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory." ~ Dr. Seuss
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early island light II ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser." ~ John W. Gardner
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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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seashells by the seashore ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious." ~ Brendan Gill
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magic hour ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; we will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind..." ~ William Wordsworth
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seashell ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." ~ William James
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Ring-billed Gull ~ Larus delawarensis Larus delawarensis ~ Southern Outer Banks
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great." ~ "A League of Their Own"
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view from the beach ~ Southern Outer Banks
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." ~ Aristotle
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Evening Glow ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Wherever there is light, one can photograph." ~ Alfred Stieglitz
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early island light II ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do." ~ Mark Twain
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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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time and tide ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Think but this, and all is mended: that you have but slumbered here, while these visions did appear; and this weak and idle theme, no more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend. If you pardon, we will mend.... Give me your hands, if we be friends, And Robin shall restore amends." ~ Puck, *A Midsummer Night's Dream*
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Time and Tide ~ Southern Outer Banks
"The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears and the sea." ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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