Eastern Seaboard

Willet ~ Tringa semipalmata ~ Southern Outer Banks
"In the end, we all become stories." ~ Margaret Atwood
willet tringa semipalmata Southern Outer Banks North Carolina Atlantic Ocean seashore Emerald Island Crystal Coast Bogue Banks island sand water shoreline beach bird
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flying White Ibis ~ Eudocimus albus ~ Southern Outer Banks
“I go to seek a Great Perhaps.” ~ François Rabelais
2016
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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 unknown
2016
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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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early evening ~ Southern Outer Banks
"By the sea, by the sea, by the beautiful sea!
You and me, you and me, oh how happy we'll be!"
~ Harold Atteridge/Harry Carroll
evening Southern Outer Banks North Carolina Emerald Isle Bogue Banks Crystal Coast sea ocean Atlantic Ocean sand water sky dunes sunlight sea grass
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Solitude of the Sea ~ Southern Outer Banks
"The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude." ~ Kate Chopin
sea Southern Outer Banks North Carolina Crystal Coast Bogue Banks ocean Atlantic Ocean dunes Emerald Isle sea grass water sky sunlight perch overlook sand beach coastline seashore coast tide
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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
2016
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tall grass ~ Huron River and Watershed
"Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable." ~ Mary Oliver
grass Huron River Watershed Michigan tufts birthday
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shortly after the summer solstice 2015 ~ Eastern Continental United States
"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything. " ~ Plato
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Maine coastline ~ Eastern Seaboard
"There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor." ~ Charles Dickens
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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
2015
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evening ~ Hancock Pond, Maine
"The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is...." ~ Marcel Proust
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Common Loon, liftoff ~ Gavia immer ~ Hancock Pond, Maine
"Come here, Norman. Hurry up. The loons! The loons! They're welcoming us back." ~ Katherine Hepburn, "On Golden Pond"
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a little while before evening ~ Hancock Pond, Maine
"I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light." ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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rose in bloom ~ Hancock Pond, Maine
"But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose." ~ Anne Brontë
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feasting on Lupines ~ Hancock Pond, Maine
"And, thou, wan Beggar, who hast felt the lash of Keen Adversity ~ hast made thy feast on lupines and on lentil ~ whom the crash of every hope hath leveled with the beast that haunts earth's dark defiles ~ let Reason flash this truth across thee, that, when kings have ceased their worldly sway, their lot ~ like thine ~ shall be (as they deserve) woe or felicity." ~ Robert Calder Campbell
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Wild Laughter of the Loon ~ Hancock Pond, Maine
"No sadder sound salutes you than the clear, wild laughter of the loon." ~ Celia Thaxter
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Days of Wine and Roses ~ Eastern Seaboard
"They are not long, the days of wine and roses. Out of a misty dream, our path emerges for a while, then closes, within a dream. ~ Ernest Dowson
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pickerel rush and ripples ~ Hancock Pond, Maine
"I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” ~ Mother Teresa
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pickerel rush and ripples ~ Hancock Pond, Maine
"Thousands have lived without love, not one without water." ~ W. H. Auden
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fishing ~ Hancock Pond, Maine
"Then he felt the gentle touch on the line, and he was happy." ~ Ernest Hemingway
2015
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sea of Rhododendrons ~ by the sea ~ Maine
"... a rhododendron walks among the rocks shod in leathery leaves and ringing a pink bell." ~ Czeslaw Milosz
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"Spirit of the North" ~ Common Loon ~ Gavia immer ~ Hancock Pond, Maine
"In the middle of the night, as indeed each time that we lay on the shore of a lake, we heard the voice of the loon, loud and distinct, from far over the lake. It is a very wild sound, quite in keeping with the place and the circumstances of the traveler, and very unlike the voice of a bird. I could lie awake for hours listening to it, it is so thrilling." ~ Henry David Thoreau
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Maine green and blue ~ Hancock Pond, Maine
"I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine." ~ Parker Stevenson
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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
2015
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pickerel rush and reflections ~ Hancock Pond, Maine
"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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Rhododendron ~ Hancock Pond, Maine
"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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misty morning ~ Hancock Pond, Maine ~ flew to Maine to visit with Sister Carolyn Van Cise and friends ~ June 2015
"A smile is the shortest distance between two people." ~ Victor Borge
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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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castles in the sand ~ Southern Outer Banks
"There's always room for another story that can transport people to another place." ~ J. K. Rowling
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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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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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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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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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sunset ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is not art." ~ Leonardo da Vinci
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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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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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sunset ~ Southern Outer Banks
"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else."
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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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double-crested cormorant ~ Southern Outer Banks
"the earth has music for those who listen." ~ Shakespeare
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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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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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Double-crested Cormorant ~ Phalacrocorax auritus ~ Pine Knoll Waterway, Southern Outer Banks
"In the Greek tale of Ulysses, after a storm broke the mast of Ulysses' raft, a sea nymph disguised herself as a cormorant and handed Ulysses a girdle to keep him afloat while he swam to shore." ~ https://www.cliffsnotes.com/cliffsnotes/subjects/literature/what-does-the-cormorant-bird-symbolize-in-mythology
doublecrested cormorant Phalacrocorax auritus gangly prehistoriclooking fishing bird bird waterbird sshaped crook to neck Pine Knoll Waterway Southern Outer Banks North Carolina Emerald Isle water wings seabird
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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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Black-Crowned Night-Heron ~ Nycticorax nycticorax ~ Southern Outer Banks
"May the heron carry news of you to the heavens, and the salmon bring the sea's blue grace." ~ James Berlolino
BlackCrowned Night Heron Heron bird Southern Outer Banks North Carolina Emerald Isle stocky bird Pine Knoll Shores Waterway grayandblack plumage longwhite head plume social birds breed in colonies most widespread heron in world black crown foragers in evening roost and nest in groups wetland habitat feed between evening and morning monogamous
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