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Garden Path by the Sea ~ Maine Coast
"The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him." ~ Auguste Rodin
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Clematis ~ Huron River and Watershed
“The gardener cultivates wildness, but he does so carefully and respectfully, in full recognition of its mystery.” ~ Michael Pollan
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blades of grass in late afternoon sun ~ Southern Outer Banks
"I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars." ~ Walt Whitman
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wild sea oats ~ Eastern Seaboard
"Photography is a love affair with life." ~ Burk Uzzle
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flora ~ Huron River
"If you are tired, keep going. If you are scared, keep going. If you are hungry, keep going. If you want to taste freedom, keep going." ~ Harriet Tubman
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Flora ~ Huron River, Michigan
"When I have a camera in my hands, I know no fear." ~ Alfred Eisenstaedt
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Chinese Elm Bonsai with Movement ~ Ulmus parvifolia, Ulmaceae, Asia
"The object is not to make the tree look like a bonsai but to make the bonsai look like a tree." ~ John Naka
Started: 1980; Trained Since 2000. Donated to Matthaei Botanical Gardens, Michigan, by Dr. William Heston.red and tan mottlingflaking barkChinese ElmBonsaiUlmus parvifoliatreetrunk rootsUlmaceaeAsiaMatthaei Botanical GardensMichiganNebarileavesbranchestrunk linetrunk movementapical structurefoliar volumefoliar formtexturebarkdesignbalancetray planingJapanese art formtree grown in containertradition dates back over a thousand yearspenzaiminiature treelongterm cultivationcrown and rootpruningsmall leavescompact visual scopenot dwarfingprunedroots reduceddefoliationgraftedwoodmottlingsmooth barkLacebark elmhardest of elmspeppery or spicy odorred and tan mottling of bark
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Venus Flytrap ~ Dionaea muscipula Droseraceae
“The great wonder of the vegetable kingdom is a very curious unknown species of Sensitive. It is a dwarf plant. The leaves are like a narrow segment of a sphere, consisting of two parts, like the cap of a spring purse, the concave part outwards, each of which falls back with indented edges (like an iron spring fox-trap); upon anything touching the leaves, or falling between them, they instantly close like a spring trap, and confine any insect or anything that falls between them. It bears a white flower. To this surprising plant I have given the name of Fly trap Sensitive.” ~ Arthur Dobbs
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Marsh Reflections ~ Huron River Watershed
“I have an immoderate passion for water; for the sea, though so vast, so restless, so beyond one's comprehension; for rivers, beautiful, yet fugitive and elusive; but especially for marshes, teeming with all that mysterious life of the creatures that haunt them. A marsh is a whole world within a world, a different world, with a life of its own, with its own permanent denizens, its passing visitors, its voices, its sounds, its own strange mystery.” ~ Guy de Maupassant
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Spirit of the Season
"For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business." ~ T. S. Eliot
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Seaons
"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells."
~ John Keatsleavesautumnfalltreebokehredwater dropletsseasontransitionmapledeciduouspassing of the yearancient Etruscan root autu' harvest timefall of the yearred leaveslush abundanceMichigan Octoberleafpeepingfoliagemacro
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Prairie Morning ~ Huron River and Watershed
"We have taken into our language the word prairie, because when our backwoodsmen first reached the land [in the Midwest] and saw the great natural meadows of long grass—sights unknown to the gloomy forests wherein they had always dwelt—they knew not what to call them, and borrowed the term already in use among the French inhabitants." ~ Theodore Roosevelt
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Dandelion Wishes ~ Huron River Watershed
“Most of the dandelions had changed from suns into moons.” ~ Vladimir Nabokov
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Rudbeckia ~ Huron River and Watershed
"All in the downs, the fleet was moored,
Banners waving in the wind. When Black-Eyed Susan came aboard,
and eyed the burly men.
'Tell me ye sailors, tell me true
Does my Sweet William sail with you?'" ~ John GayBlackeyed SusanRudbeckiawildflowergoldPreakness StakesMaryland State Flowerjusticerelated to coneflowersflowerplantnaturesummertime
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Blanket Flower ~ Gaillardia ~ Huron River and Watershed
“I never have taken a picture I’ve intended. They’re always better or worse.”
~ Diane Arbusblanket.flowerfloweryellowredherbforbIndian Blanketperennialfull.sunshowymulticolorbold redorangedaisylikeplantgarden attracts butterflies and beespetalseasy careGaillardiafew insects or disease problemsnatureoutdoorsbloomsunflower familyTexas State University inspired colorsbirthday
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Fields of Gold ~ Huron River and Watershed, Michigan
"I never made promises lightly
and there have been some that I've broken
But I swear in the days still left we'll walk in fields of gold
We'll walk in fields of gold." ~ StinggoldenHuron River WatershedMichiganfloraflowerflowering plantnaturepetalsmacrowildflower
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Fir ~ Huron River and Watershed
"Earth teach me stillness
as the grasses are stilled with light.
Earth teach me suffering
as old stones suffer with memory.
Earth teach me humility
as blossoms are humble with beginning.
Earth teach me caring
as the mother who secures her young.
Earth teach me courage
as the tree which stands alone.
Earth teach me limitation
as the ant which crawls on the ground.
Earth teach me freedom
as the eagle which soars in the sky.
Earth teach me resignation
as the leaves which die in the fall.
Earth teach me regeneration
as the seed which rises in the spring.
Each teach me to forget myself
as melted snow forgets its life.
Earth teach me to remember kindness
as dry fields weep in the rain."
~ Ute, North Americanfirgreentreeplantsummertimenatureoutdoorsmacroevergreenconiferous Pinaceaetwig carries needles singlyconestimberresinpyramidalfir needles are softflat and cannot be rolled between fingerssmooth barkAbies spp.birthday
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Siberian Iris ~ A Closer Look ~ Huron River and Watershed
"In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you." ~ Buddha
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Siberian Iris ~ Huron River and Watershed
"Being male is a matter of birth, being a man is a matter of age, being a gentleman is a matter of choice." ~ Drake
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Siberian Iris ~ Huron River and Watershed
"I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow." ~ Abraham Lincoln
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Iris ~ Huron River and Watershed
"Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious." ~ Brandon Gill
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Magnolia Blossom ~ Huron River and Watershed
“Have you ever looked at the bud of a magnolia flower? It’s a tight little pod that stays closed up for a long time on the end of its branch until one day, out of nowhere, it finally bursts open into this gigantic, gorgeous, fragrant flower that’s ten times bigger than the bud itself. It’s impossible to imagine that such a big beautiful thing could pop out of that tiny little bud. But it does.” ~ Joanna Gaines
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Virginia Bluebells
"To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition, to know even one life breathed easier because you lived. This is to have succeeded." ~ attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Antique Rose Bush, After the Rain
"To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty." ~ Oscar Wilde
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Nature ~ Huron River and Watershed, Michigan
"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin." ~ William Shakespeare
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One Bright Spring Evening
"He said, 'One life on this earth is all that we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem to be that at the very least we are fools if we do not live it as fully and bravely and beautifully as we can.'" ~ Frederick Buechner
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Daffodils ~ Huron River and Watershed
Regarding daffolils: "I thinke none ever had this kind before myselfe nor did I myself ever see it before the year 1618 for it is of mine own raising and flowering first in my own garden." ~ John Parkinson, *Paradisus Terrestris* 1632
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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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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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Orchid
"The camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity." ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
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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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Amaryllis Flamenco Queen
"There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer." ~ Ansel Adams
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Cattails ~ Huron River and Watershed
"In nature, everything looks so imperfect and unscaled, but the formation is so beautiful." ~ Bhavesh Chhatbar
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Grove of Dancing Trees in Autumn
“There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy, and its charm.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
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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
greenplantEastern SeaboardNew Hampshirefoliagefloralightbirthday
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Happy Morning Glory ~ Huron River and Watershed
"Happiness... not in another place but this place, not for another hour but this hour." ~ Walt Whitman
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Thick with Lilies ~ Michigan
“I know a little garden close
Set thick with lily and red rose,
Where I would wander if I might
From dewy dawn to dewy night.
And have one with me wandering.”
~ William MorrisliliesMichigangardenlilyliliumherbaceousflowerplantbeautifulbeautyperennialbulbsrhizomesyellowlatespringnaturebotanicalleiriontrueherbaceous borderTurk's Capfloweringoutdoorflorabloomsbirthday
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Canopy of Wisteria ~ Michigan
"Under a canopy of dangling wisteria...." ~ Lisa Fantino
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