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Read Moregifts from the sea ~ Southern Outer Banks
“Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach ~ waiting for a gift from the sea.” ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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memories ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"With mirth and laughter, let wrinkles come." ~ Shakespeare
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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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Spring Gardens ~ Huron River and Watershed
"A fine and subtle spirit dwells in every little flower." ~ Anne Brontë
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Low Tide
"Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst." ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Spring ~ Huron River and Watershed
"Just living is not enough...one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower." ~ Hans Christian Anderson
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Cascading Color ~ Hermitage, Mercer County, Pennsylvania
“Flowers don’t worry about how they’re going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful.” ~ Jim Carrey
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Summer Gold ~ Huron River and Watershed
"Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still." ~ Dorothea Lange
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"There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.” ~ Ansel Adams
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Flora ~ Huron River and Watershed
"I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you would not ignore its beauty." ~ Georgia O'Keeffe
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Natural Beauty ~ Huron River and Watershed
"The butterfly is a flying flower, the flower a tethered butterfly." ~ Ponce Denis Ecouchard Lebrun
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Rattlesnake Master ~ Eryngium yuccifolium ~ Huron River and Watershed
"Gardens are not made by singing, 'O, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade." ~ Rudyard Kipling
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Blossom and Light ~ Shenango Valley, Pennsylvania
"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious." ~ Albert Einstein
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Blooming ~ Huron River and Watershed
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Morning Glory ~ Huron River and Watershed, Michigan
“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change.” ~ Buddha
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Deep Roots and Old Loyalties ~ Maine
"Many small towns I know in Maine are as tight-knit and interdependent as those I associate with rural communities in India or China; with deep roots and old loyalties, skeptical of authority, they are proud and inflexibly territorial." ~ Paul Theroux
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Spring Evening, with Scented Geraniums ~ Huron River and Watershed, Michigan
“Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
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