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Narcissus ~ Amaryllidaceae ~ Southern Outer Banks
"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change." ~ Albert Einstein
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Narcissus ~ Amaryllidaceae ~ Southern Outer Banks
"The Earth laughs in flowers." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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lichen ~ Southern Outer Banks
"If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing." ~ Marc Chagall
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rushing a river ~ Huron River
"There is no rushing a river. When you go there, you go at the pace of the water and that pace ties you into a flow that is older than life on this planet. Acceptance of that pace, even for a day, changes us, reminds us of other rhythms beyond the sound of our own heartbeats." ~ Jeff Rennicke
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October Magic ~ Huron River
"Make your own magic -- life's too short not to fill it with everything that makes you smile." ~ Unknown
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into the woods ~ Huron River and Watershed
"It was her habit to build laughter out of inadequate materials." ~ John Steinbeck
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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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After Springtime ~ Huron River and Watershed
"Earth, my dearest, oh believe me, you no longer need your springtimes to win me over...Unspeakably, I have belonged to you, from the flush." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
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sunny yellow ~ Huron River and Watershed
“Everything you can imagine is real.” ~ Pablo Picasso
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summer thoughts ~ Huron River and Watershed
"The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of." ~ Leonardo da Vinci
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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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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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lily pond ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"The song of the river ends not at her banks, but in the hearts of those who have loved her." ~ Buffalo Joe
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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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pas de deux ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"And then she danced the dance of flowers in the wind." ~ Gibran
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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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black-eyed susans ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." ~Albert Einstein
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changing chicory ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"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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a beauty of its own ~ Huron River
" If we could see the miracle in a single flower clearly, our whole life would change. " - Buddha
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eastern purple coneflower ~ Echinacea purpurea~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow." ~ Imogen Cunningham
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glory in the flowers ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"...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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pinnate prairie coneflower ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see." ~ Alexandra K. Trenfor
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common teasel ~ Dipsacus fullonum, Honeysuckle family ~ Huron River and Watershed
"What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it." ~ C. S. Lewis
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cut-leaf teasel ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"Would the valleys were your streets, and the green paths your alleys, that you might seek one another through vineyards, and come with the fragrance of the earth in your garments." ~ Gibran
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Golden Flower ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars." ~ Rabindranath Tagore
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summertime ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
Summertime,
And the living is easy.
Fish are jumping,
And the cotton is high.
Oh, your daddy's rich,
And your mamma's good-looking.
So, hush little baby,
Don't you cry.
One of these mornings,
You're going to rise up singing.
Then you'll spread your wings,
And you'll take to the sky.
But till that morning,
There's nothing can harm you,
With daddy and mommy standing by.
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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
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rose in bloom ~ Hancock Pond, Maine
"But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose." ~ Anne BrontëFrom *master gallery
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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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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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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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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magnolia blossom ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"In every conceivable manner, the family is a link to our past, bridge to our future." ~ Alex Haley
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wild Columbine ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"With freedom, books. flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?" ~ Oscar Wilde
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Woodland Geranium ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions: When did you stop dancing? When did you stop singing? When did you stop being enchanted by stories? When did you stop finding comfort in the sweet territory of silence?" Gabrielle Roth
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Woodland Geraniums ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution." ~ Ansel Adams
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wisteria ~ Michigan
"Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography." ~ George Eastman
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Japanese Tree Peony ~ Michigan
"In the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught." ~ Baba Dioum
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seaside ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Do not grow old no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born." ~ Albert Einstein
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long, tall grass ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious." ~ Brendan Gill
grasstall grassSouthern Outer Banks
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tall grass ~ Huron River Watershed
"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." ~ Winston Churchill
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sweet autumn light ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"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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the secret life of petunias ~ Michigan
"If you can't get quiet enough to hear yourself, your life is too loud." ~ Terri Guillemets
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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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