Huron River and Watershed
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a little r&r ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
“and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.”
― Ruskin BondFrom *master gallery
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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Mute Swan and the River ~ Cygnus olor ~ Huron River, Michigan
“The river is such a tranquil place, a place to sit and think of romance and the beauty of nature, to enjoy the elegance of swans and the chance of a glimpse of a kingfisher.” ~ Jane Wilson-Howarth
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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.
~ lyrics by DuBose HaywardFrom *master gallery
Eastern Kingbird ~ Tyrannus tyrannus ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper." W. B. Yeats
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Eastern Kingbird ~ Tyrannus tyrannus ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"The photo is the hunt. It’s the instinct of hunting without the desire to kill. It’s the hunt of angels… you track, you aim, you fire and-click! Instead of a dead man, you make him eternal." - Chris Marker
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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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Blue Jay ~ Cyanocitta cristata ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated." ~ Terry Tempest Williams
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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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May your days be merry and bright!
This line comes from the song, *White Christmas,* written by Irving Berlin ~ full lyrics are below. Clyde McPhatter, of the Drifters, sings one of my favorite versions of the song.
"I'm dreaming of a White Christmas
Just like the ones I used to know
Where the treetops glisten
and children listen
To hear sleigh bells in the snow.
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Christmas card I write
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white.
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Christmas card I write
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white."From *master gallery
Cessna 195 and Monocoupe 110 Special "Gee Bee" (keepsakes)
"Flyers feel a certain kinship with the sight of the earth unencrusted by humanity, they want to see it that way in one sweeping view, in reassurance that nature still exists on her own, without a chain-link fence to hold her." ~ Richard Bach
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Hooded Merganser ~ Lophodytes cucullatus ~ Huron River and Watershed
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Blue Jay by the river ~ Cyanocitta cristata ~ Huron River Watershed
"You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants." ~ Stephen King
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Hooded Merganser ~ Lophodytes cucullatus ~ Huron River
"When your spirit cries for peace, come to a world of canyons deep in an old land; feel the exultation of high plateaus, the strength of moving waters, the simplicity of sand and grass, and the silence of growth." ~ August Fruge
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river dock ~ Huron River, Michigan
"Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day." ~ A. A. Milne
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on the wing ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” ~ George Eliot
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Autumn Leaves ~ 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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Downy, by the River ~ Picoides pubescens ~ Huron River, Michigan
"Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see." ~ C.S. Lewis
Picoides pubescensDowny WoodpeckerHuron RiverMichiganNikon D7100AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IIwoodpeckerdownytreeclinging birdbird
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Happy Fence Friday!
"In today’s rush, we all think too much....seek too much....want too much...and forget about the joy of just being." ~ Eckhart Tolle
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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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one morning by the river ~ Huron River, Michigan
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” ~ Lao Tzu
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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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rhythm of the rails ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
*City Of New Orleans* ~ Willie Nelson
"Ridin' on the City of New Orleans Illinois Central Monday morning rail
Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders
Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail
All along the southbound odyssey the train pulls out of Kankakee
And rolls along past houses farms and fields
Passing trains that have no name and graveyards full of old black men
And graveyards full of rusted automobiles
Good morning America how are you? Say, don't you know me I'm your native son
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans
And I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done
Dealin' cards with an old man in the club car
Penny a point, ain't no one keepin' score
Pass that paper bag that holds the bottle
And feel the wheels a rumbling neath the floor
And the sons of poor men porters and the sons of engineers
Ride their father's magic carpet made of steel
Mothers with their babes asleep rockin' to that gentle beat
And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel
Good morning America...
[guitar]
Night time on the City of New Orleans changing cars in Memphis Tennessee
Half way home we'll be there by morning
Through the Mississippi darkness rolling down to the sea
And all the towns and people seem to fade into a bad dream
And the steel rails still ain't heard the news
The conductor sings his songs again the passengers will please refrain
This train has got the disappearing railroad blues
Good morning America..."AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IINikon D7100train tracksMichiganHuron River Watershedrhythm of the railscover
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morning flowers ~ Huron River, Michigan
"In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy." ~ William Blake
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curious fawn ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"it appeared that nobody ever said a thing they meant, or ever talked of a feeling they felt, but that was what music was for." ~ Virginia Woolf
fawndeerMichiganContinental United StatesHuron River WatershedNikon D7100AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IIportrait of a fawncurious
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wild creature ~ Huron River Watershed
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." ~ Mark Twain
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curious doe with fawn ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
“People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.” ~ Anton Chekhov
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more reeds ~ and reflections ~ Lake Huron
"Qui non palazzi,
non teatro o loggia
ma in lor vece un abete,
un faggio, un pino.
Tra l'erba verde e il bel monte vicino
levan di terra al cielo nostr'intelletto."
~ F. PetrarcareedsgreenreflectionsLake HuronEast TawasMichiganNikon D7100AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IIwetlandContinental United StatesTawas Point State Park
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morning Tawas Point Light, in operation since 1876 ~ Lake Huron
"I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
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pointing the way ~ Blue Jay perching ~ Cyanocitta crostata ~ Lake Huron
"When I have ceased to break my wings against the faultiness of things, and learned that compromises wait behind each hardly opened gate, when I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth." ~ Sara Teasdale
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pointing the way ~ Blue Jay in flight ~ Cyanocitta crostata ~ Lake Huron
"Embrace the glorious mess that you are." ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
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Northern Flicker ~ Colaptes auratus ~ Lake Huron
"I'm going to make everything around me beautiful ~ that will be my life." ~ Elsie de Wolfe
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summer shores ~ Lake Huron
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” ~ Pablo Picasso
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wetland reflections ~ Lake Huron
“The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goals. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.” ~ Benjamin E. Mays
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water's edge ~ road trip to Lake Huron with friends
"Photography is an art of observation. It has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them." ~ Elliott Erwitt
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Holiday Spirit
"This is my wish for you: peace of mind, prosperity through the year, happiness that multiplies, health for you and yours, fun around every corner, energy to chase your dreams, joy to fill your holidays!" ~ D.M. Dellinger
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happy hour ~ anywhere
"If you don't know where you're going, any road will get you there." ~ Lewis Carroll
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Waning Gibbous ~ Michigan
"Some people feel the rain, others just get wet." ~ Bob Marley
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morning blue light ~ wild chicory ~ Michigan
"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit." ~ Aristotle
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