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Image of a Small Thing
"When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.” ~ Ansel Adams
Bald Eagle ~ Haliaeetus leucocephalus ~ Great Lakes and Watershed
"Fly like an eagle, let my spirit carry me." ~ Steve Miller
American Kestrel ~ Falco sparverius ~ Great Lakes and Watershed
"Swift on the wing, powerful flight I soar, my tail spread wide I fly for freedom, I fly for life, on feathered wings I glide. I am Kestrel, the flyer, the soarer..... Prettiest of the Falcon blood, I have not a blue-bird's song and beauty, nor a Swan's long-necked grace. I am Kestrel, the proud, the beautiful, I am a Falcon, I am a Hawk...." ~ Erin Mazur
Broad-winged Hawk ~ Buteo platypterus ~ Great Lakes and Watershed
"Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas.... rest your spirit in her solitary places." ~ Henry Beston
Red-tailed Hawk ~ Buteo jamaicensis ~ Great Lakes and Watershed ~ 2nd road trip for birding festival ~ September 2015
"If you see Mt. Fuji, a hawk, and an eggplant on New Year's Day, you will be forever blessed." ~ Japanese proverb
rivers in late summer ~ Huron River
"I started out thinking of America as highways and state lines. As I got to know it better, I began to think of it as rivers." ~ Charles Kuralt
Great Egret ~ Ardea alba ~ Great Lakes and Watershed
"If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes." ~ Charles Lindbergh
Great Egret ~ Ardea alba ~ Great Lakes and Watershed ~ 1st road trip for birding festival with instructor and class ~ September 2015
"On foot its movements are as graceful as those of the Louisiana Heron, its steps measured, its long neck gracefully retracted and curved, and its silk train reminded one of the flowing robes of the noble ladies of Europe." ~ James Audubon
the feast ~ Huron River and Watershed
"The butterfly is a flying flower, the flower a tethered butterfly." ~ Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun
papillon ~ perhaps an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail ~ Michigan
"If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere." ~ Vincent van Gogh
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
a Courtin'
"Froggie Went a Courtin'" ~ Woody Guthrie ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCjkuF5F3kk
summer thoughts ~ Huron River and Watershed
"The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of." ~ Leonardo da Vinci
silky milkweed seed adrift ~ Huron River and Watershed
"Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith." ~ Margaret Shepard
downtown Ann Arbor
downtown Ann Arbor
downtown Ann Arbor
downtown Ann Arbor
Bethlehem United Church of Christ
Burton Memorial Tower
cut-leaf teasel ~ Huron River and Watershed
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” ~ Confucius
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
Imaginings
"Sometimes it's the very people who no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine." ~ Alan Turing
pas de deux ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"And then she danced the dance of flowers in the wind." ~ Gibran
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
my glass vase and reflection
“We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing!” ~ Benjamin Franklin
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
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
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
Mute Swan ~ Cygnus olor ~ Huron River
"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
mute swan ~ Cygnus olor ~ Huron River, Michigan
"I have no special talents, I am only passionately curious." ~ Albert Einstein
black-eyed susans ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." ~Albert Einstein
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
Happy Valentine's Day 2017
"The rose is red, the violet's blue, the honey's sweet, and so are you." ~ from Gammer Gurton's 1784 English nursery rhyme collection
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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"
Mallard ducklings in a row ~ Anas platyrhynchos ~ Huron River, Michigan
"Wherever you go, go with all your heart." ~ Confucius
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
Red-winged Blackbird, Female ~ Agelaius phoeniceus ~ Huron River, Michigan
"Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder." ~ e. b. White
a beauty of its own ~ Huron River
" If we could see the miracle in a single flower clearly, our whole life would change. " - Buddha
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
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
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
Pontiac Eight ~ Michigan
"She likes....my straight-eight Pontiac." ~ Sonny Boy Williamson and the Yardbirds, "Pontiac Blues"
