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Chinese Elm Bonsai with Movement ~ Ulmus parvifolia, Ulmaceae, Asia
"The object is not to make the tree look like a bonsai but to make the bonsai look like a tree." ~ John Naka
Started: 1980; Trained Since 2000. Donated to Matthaei Botanical Gardens, Michigan, by Dr. William Heston.red and tan mottlingflaking barkChinese ElmBonsaiUlmus parvifoliatreetrunk rootsUlmaceaeAsiaMatthaei Botanical GardensMichiganNebarileavesbranchestrunk linetrunk movementapical structurefoliar volumefoliar formtexturebarkdesignbalancetray planingJapanese art formtree grown in containertradition dates back over a thousand yearspenzaiminiature treelongterm cultivationcrown and rootpruningsmall leavescompact visual scopenot dwarfingprunedroots reduceddefoliationgraftedwoodmottlingsmooth barkLacebark elmhardest of elmspeppery or spicy odorred and tan mottling of bark
Venus Flytrap ~ Dionaea muscipula Droseraceae
“The great wonder of the vegetable kingdom is a very curious unknown species of Sensitive. It is a dwarf plant. The leaves are like a narrow segment of a sphere, consisting of two parts, like the cap of a spring purse, the concave part outwards, each of which falls back with indented edges (like an iron spring fox-trap); upon anything touching the leaves, or falling between them, they instantly close like a spring trap, and confine any insect or anything that falls between them. It bears a white flower. To this surprising plant I have given the name of Fly trap Sensitive.” ~ Arthur Dobbs
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The Fisherman
"Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then." ~ Garrison Keillor
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Sandhill Crane ~ Antigone canadensis ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"Nobility, won in the march of aeons." ~ Aldo Leopald
Marsh Reflections ~ Huron River Watershed
“I have an immoderate passion for water; for the sea, though so vast, so restless, so beyond one's comprehension; for rivers, beautiful, yet fugitive and elusive; but especially for marshes, teeming with all that mysterious life of the creatures that haunt them. A marsh is a whole world within a world, a different world, with a life of its own, with its own permanent denizens, its passing visitors, its voices, its sounds, its own strange mystery.” ~ Guy de Maupassant
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Lily Pond ~ Huron River Watershed
"It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly." ~ Claude Monet
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Cobblestone Farm ~ Huron River and Watershed
"If the beard were all, goats could preach." ~ Danish Proverb
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Swing Set on a Rainy Day
"How do you like to go up in a swing,
Up in the air so blue?
Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing
Ever a child can do!
Up in the air and over the wall,
Till I can see so wide,
Rivers and trees and cattle and all
Over the countryside—
Till I look down on the garden green,
Down on the roof so brown—
Up in the air I go flying again,
Up in the air and down!"
~ Robert Louis Stevensonswing setswingsplaygroundparkbelt seatspendantchainspolessuspenddanglemove back and forthplaypumprainyplaytime
Spirit of the Season
"For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business." ~ T. S. Eliot
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Seaons
"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells."
~ John Keatsleavesautumnfalltreebokehredwater dropletsseasontransitionmapledeciduouspassing of the yearancient Etruscan root autu' harvest timefall of the yearred leaveslush abundanceMichigan Octoberleafpeepingfoliagemacro
Washstand, Sarah Jordan Boarding House, currently, Greenfield Village
Sarah Jordan Boarding HouseGreenfield VillageMichiganMenlo ParkNew Jersey complexallmale environmentboardinghouseroom.and.boardunmarried employeesSarah Jordan was distant relative of Edisonplayed host to experimental lighting system 1879windowroomwashstandbuilding constructed circa 1870wood and plasterNew JerseyEdisonlodging housebuildingstructureFrancis JehlSarah Jordan's roombedroombirthday
vicissitudes
"Joy is a spiritual element that gives vicissitudes unity and significance." ~ Helen Keller
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Chess Set by Gianni Toso, 1988 ~ Sculpture in Glass and Wood
Gift of Bruce and Ann Bachmann ~ on exhibit at Henry Ford Museum, Davidson-Gerson Modern Glass Gallery
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"Blue Macchia with Yellow Lip" ~ Dale Chihuly, 1999 ~ Greenfield Village
“My work to this day revolves around a simple set of circumstances: fire, molten glass, human breath, spontaneity, centrifugal force, gravity.” ~ Dale Chihuly
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Percherons ~ Greenfield Village
"It is easy to be impressed by what one does not understand very well." ~ G. H. Hardy
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Hanks Silk Mill ~ Built in 1812 near Mansfield, Connecticut
"Silk comes from the silkworm, which is really a caterpillar. One cocoon contains a single strand of silk up to 1,000 yards long. Workers spent tedious hours here, tending to the silkworms and spinning thread from their cocoons. The Hanks family ran this mill, which is believed to be the first water-powered silk mill in the United States. The thread they made in the mill was sold across the country. They later moved into a larger mill, where they continued to make thread until the 1920s." ~ Site posting. Current location, Greenfield Village, Michigan
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A Little Farm-Fresh History ~ Greenfield Village
"I don't know what I may seem to the world, but, as to myself, I seem have been only as a boy [/girl] playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." ~ Isaac Newton
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Merino Sheep ~ Greenfield Village
"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty." ~ Abraham Lincoln
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The Window ~ Cotswold Cottage, The Henry Ford
"Set wide the window. Let me drink the day." ~ Edith Wharton
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Cotswold Dreams
This particular Cotswold Cottage was built in the early 1600s in Chedworth, Gloucestershire, England and now stands in Greenfield Village, Michigan.
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Peddling Back in Time ~ Greenfield Village Old Car Festival
period costumevintageGreenfield VillageOld Car FestivalMichiganback in timepedalingbicyclecyclinghistorichigh wheelsbikepennyfarthinghighwheelerordinarypenny leading a farthingsymbol of late Victorian eradirect drivepeopleboys will be boysbirthday
1929 Auburn 120 Boattail Speedster
Owned by Gerald Daugherty, Plymouth, Michigan
boattailGreenfield Villageold car1929AuburnSpeedsterautomobilecarAmerican carrareblueconvertiblepowered by 46l straight eightwindshield
1929 Auburn 120 Boattail Speedster
owned by Gerald Daugherty, Plymouth, Michigan
1929AuburnSpeedsterautomobilecarclassicAmerican car120 development of 115 introducedrarepowered by 4.6L straight eightblueconvertiblebirthday
MG ~ Old Car
“Dreams do come true...never stop believing.” ~ Josh Davis
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In Silhouette ~ Huron River and Watershed, Michigan
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Ankole-Watusi ~ Huron River and Watershed
“I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.” ~ Diane Arbus
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Ankole-Watusi (African Long-Horned) Bull ~ Domino's Farms, Michigan
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Black-capped Chickadee ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"[1] Every autumn, Black-capped Chickadees allow brain neurons containing old information to die, replacing them with new neurons so they can adapt to changes in their social flocks and environment even with their tiny brains..... [2] Flocks have many calls with specific meanings, and they may contain some of the characteristics of human language." ~ Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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Prairie Morning ~ Huron River and Watershed
"We have taken into our language the word prairie, because when our backwoodsmen first reached the land [in the Midwest] and saw the great natural meadows of long grass—sights unknown to the gloomy forests wherein they had always dwelt—they knew not what to call them, and borrowed the term already in use among the French inhabitants." ~ Theodore Roosevelt
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Canada Geese ~ Branta canadensis ~ Huron River
"Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you." ~ Carl Sandburg
MichiganriverCanada GooseBranta canadensisblackneckedsignature white chinstrap markhonkerwaterbirdbirdbirdsinflight field grazervformation in flightwaterHuron River
American Red Squirrel ~ Tamiasciurus hudsonicus ~ Huron River and Watershed
"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." ~ Albert Einstein
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House Finch ~ ~ Huron River Watershed
"I'm very happy being me, although sometimes I'd love to be a bird so that I could fly." ~ Joy Fielding
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Common Grackle ~ Quiscalus quiscula ~ Huron River and Watershed, Michigan (urban feeder)
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Dandelion Wishes ~ Huron River Watershed
“Most of the dandelions had changed from suns into moons.” ~ Vladimir Nabokov
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Feral Rock Pigeons in the Morning Sun ~ Columba livia ~ Huron River
"I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,
And what can be the use of him is more than I can see....
The funniest thing about him is the way he likes to grow ~ ....
For he sometimes shoots up taller like an india-rubber ball,
And he sometimes gets so little that there's none of him at all." ~ Robert Louis StevensonRock PigeonferalColumba liviaorange eyesshadows pigeonbirdmorningbridgenatureoutdoorssense earth's magnetic fielddomesticated more than 5K years agobirthday
Green Heron ~ Butorides virescens ~ Huron River
"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive." ~ Elbert Hubbard
Green HeronButorides vierscensyellow legsvelvetgreen backrich chestnut bodydark capsmall heronherondaggerlike billsometimes use baitbirdshortneckedconcealed in vegetationbirthday
Wood Duckling with Mom ~ Aix sponsa ~ Huron River
"I have a room all to myself; it is nature." ~ Henry David Thoreau
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House Sparrow, Near Cliff Swallow Nest ~ Passer domesticus ~ Huron River
"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings." ~ William Blake
House SparrowEnglish SparrowPasser domesticusnot related to other North American sparrowsnatureoutdoorsnot nativebirdCliff Swallow nestbirthday
Baby Goose Down ~ Branta canadensis ~ Huron River
“There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.” ~ Ansel Adams
Huron RiveroutdoorsnatureBranta canadensisgoosegoslingdowngoose downCanada Goosehonkerwaterbirdlong neckvery young birds clad only in downthermal insulationwaterbirthday
Rudbeckia ~ Huron River and Watershed
"All in the downs, the fleet was moored,
Banners waving in the wind. When Black-Eyed Susan came aboard,
and eyed the burly men.
'Tell me ye sailors, tell me true
Does my Sweet William sail with you?'" ~ John GayBlackeyed SusanRudbeckiawildflowergoldPreakness StakesMaryland State Flowerjusticerelated to coneflowersflowerplantnaturesummertime
Blanket Flower ~ Gaillardia ~ Huron River and Watershed
“I never have taken a picture I’ve intended. They’re always better or worse.”
~ Diane Arbusblanket.flowerfloweryellowredherbforbIndian Blanketperennialfull.sunshowymulticolorbold redorangedaisylikeplantgarden attracts butterflies and beespetalseasy careGaillardiafew insects or disease problemsnatureoutdoorsbloomsunflower familyTexas State University inspired colorsbirthday
