Huron River and Watershed

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Shrub Rose ~ Michigan
"Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify." ~ Henry David Thoreau
rose shrub rose Michigan red bloom blossom flower flora color light Nikon D7100 AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II Continental United States
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summertime ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat." ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
summertime Nikon D7100 yellow blooms flowers blossoms Michigan AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II flower
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Gray Catbird ~ Dumetella carolinensis ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world." ~ Joanne Harris
Gray Catbird Huron River Watershed Michigan Dumetella carolinensis bird AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II Nikon D7100
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House Sparrow, Female ~ Passer domesticus ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring enough worries of its own." ~ Matthew 6:34
bird Michigan Huron River Watershed Nikon D7100 AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II Continental United States yummy House Sparrow Passer domesticus
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mulberry-hunting ~ Michigan
"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tries, and a touch that never hurts." ~ Charles Dickens
squirrel hunting mulberry Michigan Nikon D7100 AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II
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Cardinal, female ~ Michigan
"...so softly you go in your swagger." ~ Pablo Neruda
Cardinal Michigan Cardinalis cardinals Continental United States Nikon D7100 AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II perching bird bird
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American Robin, Juvenile ~ Turdus migratorius ~ Huron River Watershed
"In one of the stars I shall be living, in one of them, I shall be laughing. And so it will be, as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night." ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
American Robin robin Turdus migrators Nikon D7100 juvenile Michigan bird perching bird songbird migratory thrush reddish orange breast state bird of Michigan Connecticut Wisconsin among first birds to sing at dawn symbol of spring AFS Nikkor 70 200mm f2.8G ED VR III
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Downy ~ Picoides pubescent ~ Michigan
"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery, rather than avenge it?" ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Downy Woodpecker Picoides pubescent AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II Nikon D7100 Michigan bird Continental United States
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curious squirrel, juvenile ~ Michigan
"With freedom, books, flowers and the moon, who could not be happy?" ~ Oscar Wilde
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fawn two of three ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;—
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems."
~ Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy
fawn deer Michigan Continental United States Huron River Watershed Nikon D7100 AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II portrait of a fawn fauna cover
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Song Sparrow ~ Melospiza melody ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us." ~ Leo Tolstoy
AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II song sparrow melospiza melody huron river watershed Michigan Nikon D7100 bird
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Song Sparrow ~ Melospiza melodia ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"We don't remember days, we remember moments." ~ Cesare Pavese
Song Sparrow sparrow Melospiza melodia Huron River Watershed Michigan AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II Nikon D7100 songbird bird
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Brown-headed Cowbird ~ Molothrus ater ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might and, when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough." ~ Ernest Hemingway
brownheaded cowbird Molothrus ater cowbird gallup park huron river watershed AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II watershed Michigan Nikon D7100 Continental United States bird
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Siberian Iris ~ Iris sibirica ~ Huron River, Michigan
"Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable." ~ Mary Oliver
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wood thrush ~ Hylocichia mustelina ~ Stinchfield Woods, Michigan
"'Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.'" ~ E.B. White
thrush hylocichia mustelina Stinchfield Woods Michigan wood thrush Nikon D7100 AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II bird
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Sandhill Crane ~ Grus canadensis ~ Leonard Preserve, River Raisin Watershed, Michigan
“Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.” ~ Cornelia Funke
AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II sandhill crane crane grus canadensis Leonard Preserve River Raisin Watershed Michigan longlegged wader. nesting Nikon D7100 bird
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Scarlet Tanager, male ~ Piranga olivacea ~ Scio Woods Preserve, Michigan
"The real voyage of discovery is not in seeking new places, but in seeing with new eyes." ~ Marcel Proust
Scarlet Tanager Piranga olivacea Scio Woods Preserve Michigan bird scarlet tanager perching bird red cover
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wood phlox ~ Scio Woods Preserve, Michigan
"Integrity is doing the right thing even when no one is watching." ~ C.W. Lewis
AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II wood phlox Scio Woods Preserve Michigan Nikon D7100 flower blossom bloom flora
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all in a dream ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"You must learn to get in touch with the innermost essence of your being. This true essence is beyond the ego. It is fearless; it is free; it is immune to criticism; it does not fear any challenge. It is beneath no one, superior to no one, and full of magic, mystery, and enchantment." ~ Deepak Chopra
dream landscape scenery Huron River Watershed Nikon D7100 AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II Continental United States flycatcher
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tulip ~ 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 mean to be celebrated." ~ Terry Tempest Williams
flora flower red tulip blossom bloom Nikon D7100 AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II Continental United States
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tulips ~ Michigan
"It is one of the blessings of friends that you can afford to be stupid with them." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nikon D7100 AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II tulips Michigan Continental United States flowers blooms blossoms bulbs flower
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tulips ~ Michigan
"To begin, begin." ~ William Wordsworth
tulip flora blossom flower bloom Nikon D7100 AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II Continental United States
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world of tulips ~ Michigan
"When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new." ~ Dalai Lama
blossoms flowers tulips bulbs red flora Nikon D7100 AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II Continental United States flower
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Muscari ~ Michigan
"There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing." ~ Aristotle
muscari Michigan blooms purple flowers AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II Nikon D7100 flower
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Afternoon in the Michigan Woods
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." ~ Lao-tzu
maple Michigan leaves Continental United States red Nikon D7100 AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II autumn fall autumn leaves cover
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Downy Woodpecker, female ~ Picoides pubescent ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." ~ George Bernard Shaw
Downy Woodpecker Picoides pubescent AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II Nikon D7100 Michigan bird Continental United States Huron River Watershed
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Baltimore Oriole ~ Icterus galbula ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"And that other self, who watches me from the distance of decades, what will she say? Will she look at me with hatred or with compassion, I whose choices made her what she will be?" ~ Jane Hirshfield
Nikon D7100 Baltimore Oriole Icterus galbula Huron River Watershed Michigan AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II bird
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tree reflections ~ Lake Isabelle, Brauer Preserve, Michigan
"How lucky am I to have something that makes saying good-bye so hard." ~ Winnie-the-Pooh
reflections Lake Isabelle Brauer preserve Michigan water flora Nikon D7100 AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II Continental United States
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woodland May Apple after the storm ~ Brauer Preserve, Michigan
"If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together...there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart...I'll always be with you." ~ Winnie-the-Pooh
woodland May Apple raindrops storm Brauer Preserve Michigan cover
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not seeing the forest for the trees ~ Brauer Preserve, Michigan
"Death is nothing at all.
I have only slipped away to the next room.
I am I and you are you.
Whatever we were to each other,
That, we still are.

Call me by my old familiar name.
Speak to me in the easy way
which you always used.
Put no difference into your tone.
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.

Laugh as we always laughed
at the little jokes we enjoyed together.
Play, smile, think of me. Pray for me.
Let my name be ever the household word
that it always was.
Let it be spoken without effect.
Without the trace of a shadow on it.

Life means all that it ever meant.
It is the same that it ever was.
There is absolute unbroken continuity.
Why should I be out of mind
because I am out of sight?

I am but waiting for you.
For an interval.
Somewhere. Very near.
Just around the corner.

All is well."

~ Henry Scott Holland ~ 1847-1918
Canon of St. Paul's Cathedral ~ London. UK
reflections Brauer preserve Michigan wetland flora Nikon D7100 AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II Continental United States
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rock garden tulips ~ Michigan
"And in the end, we were all just humans...drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nikon D7100 rock garden tulips tulips flora blooms blossoms bulbs spring Michigan flower cover
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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
purple flowers evening blooms garden geraniums Michigan Huron River and Watershed
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memories ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"With mirth and laughter, let wrinkles come." ~ Shakespeare
memories Nikon D7100 AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II tire swing Continental United States rural Washtenaw County MIchigan
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Blooming ~ Huron River and Watershed
bloom purple Huron River and Watershed flowers nature natural beauty plant
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tilled and untllled ~ Michigan
"It never hurts to keep looking for sunshine." ~ Eeyore
AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II tilled untilled land fields green Michigan Nikon D7100
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a winter's day ~ Michigan
"A winter's day...gazing from my window....on a freshly fallen, silent shroud of snow.." ~ Simon & Garfunkel
j van cise photos snow Michigan winter late.afternoon trees cold cool wintertime wintertide freezing outdoor winter's day silent.shroud.of.snow
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Ranger, the Red-tailed Hawk ~ Buteo jamaicensis ~ Huron River and Watershed, Michigan
Note tethering and perching gear for this rescued beauty of nature.
Ranger RedTailed Hawk bird captive bird Buteo.jamaicensis raptor shrill cry oldest known 30 years red tail broad round wings short wide tail 2nd largest buteo hawk residentshort distance migrant
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Red-Bellied Woodpecker Takes the Peanut ~ Melanerpes carolinus ~ Huron River and Watershed
“Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field.” ~ Peter Adams
Redbellied Woodpecker Melanerpes carolinus barred backs red cap oldest12 years pale belly red nape clings to tree bark undulating flight pattern bird
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Blue Jay with Peanut and Friend ~ Cyanocitta cristata ~ Huron River and Watershed
"Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.” ~ Diane Arbus
Blue Jay Cyanocitta cristata Huron River and Watershed Michigan bird songbird complex social system tight family bonds fondness for acorns sometimes migratory mimi calls of hawks tool user blue oldest known 26 years prominent crest bold black necklace bold white wingbar wings tail barred wblack abundant near forest edges knnown for intelligence often mate for life communicate vocally wbody language immense vocabulary excellent mimics gular pouch
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White-Breasted Nuthatch, with Photographer in Background ~ Sitta carolinensis ~ Huron River and Watershed, Michigan
"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." ~ proverbial saying
White breasted Nuthatch Sitta carolinensis Huron River and Watershed Michigan bird bird food nature fauna
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Northern Cardinal ~ Cardinalis cardinalis ~ Michigan
"There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value." ~ Jeanette Winterson
Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis red bird perching bird sweet whistles in the morning songbird crest sunflower seeds nature outdoor animal
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European Starling ~ Sturnus vulgaris ~ Michigan
"If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin." ~ Ivan Turgenev
European Starling Sturnus vulgaris bird Shakespeare mumation songbird dark and glossy in summer perching bird Darwinian Dance roost nature outdoor
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