Huron River and Watershed
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reflections of the fall ~ Huron River
"Do what makes you happy. Look upon what gives you joy. Listen to what lifts your spirit. Speak to those who warm your heart. Surround yourself with sights and sounds and people who make you smile." ~ Unknown
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American Goldfinch, winter plumage ~ Spinus tristis ~ Huron River and Watershed
"There are adventures of the spirit...as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books to read in the long winter evenings." ~ D. E. Stevenson
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tall grass ~ Huron River and Watershed
"Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable." ~ Mary Oliver
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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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Moorings ~ Huron River
"Mist veils the cold stream, and moonlight the sand, as I moor in the shadow of a river-tavern..." ~ Du Mu
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flowing streams ~ Huron River and Watershed
"When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come." ~ Leonardo DaVinci
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the feast ~ Huron River and Watershed
"The butterfly is a flying flower, the flower a tethered butterfly." ~ Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun
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papillon ~ perhaps an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail ~ Michigan
"If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere." ~ Vincent van Gogh
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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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a Courtin'
"Froggie Went a Courtin'" ~ Woody Guthrie ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCjkuF5F3kk
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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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my glass vase and reflection
“We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing!” ~ Benjamin Franklin
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wind chimes
"'Listen,' she whispered and pointed towards the window. ‘Whenever the wind blows from the east, and the wind chimes dance in the moonlight, there is magic in the air." ~ Carole Carlton
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secret life of bees, (from Sue Monk Hood) ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it." ~ John Muir
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butterfly blue ~ ~ Huron River and Watershed
"she wore blue velvet, bluer than velvet was the night, softer than satin was the light...." ~ Lana del Ray
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Mute Swan ~ Cygnus olor ~ Huron River
"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
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mute swan ~ Cygnus olor ~ Huron River, Michigan
"I have no special talents, I am only passionately curious." ~ Albert Einstein
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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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perhaps a calico pennant dragonfly ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than the ones you did do.” –Mark Twain
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Summertime Fun on the Water Slide
"Truth is like a waterslide ~ only fun when it's slippery and wet." ~ Bob Dylan
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Chevy Bel Air ~ Michigan
"Buy you a Chevrolet, Buy you a Chevrolet, Buy a Chevrolet, Just do somethin' for you." ~ Lonnie Young, "Buy You a Chevrolet"
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Mallard ducklings in a row ~ Anas platyrhynchos ~ Huron River, Michigan
"Wherever you go, go with all your heart." ~ Confucius
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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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Red-winged Blackbird, Female ~ Agelaius phoeniceus ~ Huron River, Michigan
"Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder." ~ e. b. White
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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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Mallard mom and her family of ducklings ~ Anas platyrhynchos ~ Huron River, Michigan
"In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.” ~ Aaron Rose
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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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Pontiac Eight ~ Michigan
"She likes....my straight-eight Pontiac." ~ Sonny Boy Williamson and the Yardbirds, "Pontiac Blues"
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