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Double-crested Cormorant ~ Phalacrocorax auritus ~ Southern Outer Banks
"We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time."
~ T. S. Eliot
Doublecrested Cormorant Phalacrocorax auritus gangly cormorant Intracoastal waterway marina North Carolina prehistoriclooking fishing.bird relative of frigatebird and boobie diving bird waterbird float low on the water bird black sshaped neck sun themselves with wings widespread Emerald Isle island Crystal Coast Bogue Banks seacoast Atlantic Ocean seaside barrier island
The Cove ~ Southern Outer Banks, North Carolina
"Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?" ~ David Attenborough
Southern Outer Banks Eastern North Carolina North Carolina Redbreasted Merganser Mergus serrator waterfowl water cove diving duck sawbill saltwater wetland coastal water Bonaparte's Gull herd minnow bird
Red-breasted Merganser, Female ~ Mergus serrator ~ Southern Outer Banks
"The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one’s life." ~ C. S. Lewis
Redbreasted Merganser Female Mergus serrator Southern Outer Banks Crystal Coast North Carolina Bogue Banks Atlantic Ocean bird duck Emerald Isle water birthday
Red-breasted Merganser, Male ~ Mergus serrator ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Our greatest experiences are our quietest moments." ~ Friedrick Neitzsche
Redbreasted Merganser Male Mergus serrator Southern Outer Banks Crystal Coast island Emerald Isle Bogue Banks water bird duck birthday
Red-breasted Merganser ~ Mergus serrator ~ Southern Outer Banks
"What good are wings without the courage to fly." ~ Atticus
Redbreasted Merganser bird duck Merganser diving duck long thin bill prefers salt water shaggy crest Mergus serrator Southern Outer Banks nature outdoors water Atlantic Ocean birthday
White Ibis, Spreading its Wings ~ Eudocimus albus ~ Southern Outer Banks
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." ~ E.E. Cummings
White Ibis Eudocimus albus Southern Outer Banks North Carolina estuary wetland southeastern United States red legs red bill wading bird bird black wingtips nest in colonies white blue eyes longlegged coastal wetland nature outdoors birthday
White Ibis ~ Eudocimus albus ~ Southern Outer Banks
“In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.” ~ Robert Lynd
Ibis Eudocimus albus Southern Outer Banks Atlantic Ocean Atlantic Seaboard shallow wetland estuary red legs red bill males are highly protective coast coastal wetland bird wading bird marsh blue eyes social bird roost and nest in trees water animal
Double-crested Cormorant ~ Phalacrocorax auritus ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the places and moments that take our breath away." ~ Unknown
Doublecrested Cormorant Phalacrocorax auritus Southern Outer Banks North Carolina Crystal Coast Bogue Banks Bogue Sound Emerald Isle bird
Double-crested Cormorant ~ Phalacrocorax auritus ~ Southern Outer Banks
Harbor Master
harbor master Doublecrested Cormorant Phalacrocorax auritus Southern Outer Banks North Carolina Crystal Coast Bogue Banks Bogue Sound Emerald Isle bird sunning birthday
Forster's Tern ~ Sterna forsteri ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different...." C. S. Lewis
Forster's.Tern Sterna.forsteri Southern Outer Banks Atlantic Ocean North Carolina tern commashaped black ear patch forked.tail coastal beach plunger bird birdinflight Emerald Isle Bogue Banks Crystal Coast ocean seaside Atlantic outdoor water splash
White Ibis ~ Eudocimus albus ~ Southern Outer Banks
“I turn my heart to the light and receive its beauty and nourishment. I turn my heart to the shadows as they reveal hues, shades and textures that contrast the light. I turn my heart to them both and embrace their gifts, for they have graced me with blessings untold.” ~ Kristin Granger
Great Egret, in flight ~ Ardea alba ~ Southern Outer Banks
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
Great Egret Ardea alba Southern Outer Banks North Carolina Bogue Banks Crystal Coast Atlantic Ocean Emerald Isle birdinflight bird
White Ibis ~ Eudocimus albus ~ Southern Outer Banks
"We are always the same age inside." ~ Gertrude Stein
White Ibis Eudocimus albus Southern Outer Banks marsh Crystal Coast North Carolina Bogue Banks Emerald Isle birdinflight bird sky
Narcissus ~ Amaryllidaceae ~ Southern Outer Banks
"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change." ~ Albert Einstein
sunlight and morning dew at the harbor ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Playfully looking up,
I run around in circles
with my mouth wide open,
trying to catch the dew drops
dripping off the needles
before the sun wakes up
to steal them away."
~ Jonny Angel
sunlight morning dew harbor Southern Outer Banks North Carolina Crystal Coast Emerald Isle Bogue Banks soundside water boat dew drops
Sound-side ~ Southern Outer Banks
"I am convinced that most people do not grow up. We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think that what we do is mostly grow old. We carry an accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias." ~ Maya Angelou
View of the Sound ~ Southern Outer Banks
“If we assist the highest forms of education – in whatever field – we secure the widest influence in enlarging the boundaries of human knowledge." ~ John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
sound harbor barrier island Bogue Banks Crystal Coast Emerald Isle Southern Outer Banks North Carolina outdoor water sky trees reflection morning intracoastal waterway Bogue Sound
cool, blue morning ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify." ~ Henry David Thoreau
Emerald Isle Southern Outer Banks blue dawn sound island.in.the.Atlantic Bogue Banks Crystal Coast sea.isle morning reflections Bogue Sound North Caorlina nature minimalism outdoor water birthday
Narcissus ~ Amaryllidaceae ~ Southern Outer Banks
"The Earth laughs in flowers." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
lichen ~ Southern Outer Banks
"If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing." ~ Marc Chagall
lichen Southern Outer Banks North Carolina Crystal Coast Emerald Isle Bogue Banks composite organism symbiotic not plant sea level bark some considered among the oldest living things first to grow after landslide
Double-crested cormorant ~ Phalacrocorax auritus ~ Southern Outer Banks
“La terre est le probable paradis perdu.” ~ de Federico Garcia Lorca
Doublecrested cormorant Phalacrocorax auritus Southern Outer Banks North Carolina Emerald Isle Bogue Banks bird diving bird inflight marsh
Great Blue Heron ~ Ardea herodias ~ Southern Outer Banks
"In the quiet morning." ~ Mimi Fariña, sister of Joan Baez
Brown Pelican ~ Pelecanus occidentalis ~ Southern Outer Banks
"In the midst of winter, I found that there lies, within me, an invincible summer." ~ Albert Camus
2016
Morning Stroll ~ Southern Outer Banks
"I do believe in an everyday sort of magic ~ the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like; the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity; the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we're alone" ~ Charles de Lint
beach sand sky clouds water Southern Outer Banks North Carolina Crystal Coast Bogue Banks Emerald Isle morning dunes shoreline coast Atlantic Ocean tide
Willet ~ Tringa semipalmata ~ Southern Outer Banks
"In the end, we all become stories." ~ Margaret Atwood
willet tringa semipalmata Southern Outer Banks North Carolina Atlantic Ocean seashore Emerald Island Crystal Coast Bogue Banks island sand water shoreline beach bird
flying White Ibis ~ Eudocimus albus ~ Southern Outer Banks
“I go to seek a Great Perhaps.” ~ François Rabelais
2016
Maui ~ Ebony-spotted Oriental Shorthair
"Eventually they will understand,
Replied the glorious cat
For I will whisper into their hearts
That I am always with them
I just am....forever and ever and ever."
~ *Poem for Cats,* author unknown
2016
Yucca ~ Asparagaceae ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Nothing is ever really lost." ~ Walt Whitman
the island, near sunset ~ Southern Outer Banks ~ 4th winter sojourn to Pine Knoll Shores, North Carolina ~ January 2016
"It's a funny thing, how much time we spend planning our lives. We so convince ourselves of what we want to do, that sometimes we don't see what we're meant to do." ~ Susan Gregg Gilmore
early evening ~ Southern Outer Banks
"By the sea, by the sea, by the beautiful sea!
You and me, you and me, oh how happy we'll be!"
~ Harold Atteridge/Harry Carroll
evening Southern Outer Banks North Carolina Emerald Isle Bogue Banks Crystal Coast sea ocean Atlantic Ocean sand water sky dunes sunlight sea grass
Solitude of the Sea ~ Southern Outer Banks
"The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude." ~ Kate Chopin
sea Southern Outer Banks North Carolina Crystal Coast Bogue Banks ocean Atlantic Ocean dunes Emerald Isle sea grass water sky sunlight perch overlook sand beach coastline seashore coast tide
Maui, our beautiful Oriental Shorthair
"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats." ~ Albert Schweitzer
2016
wind chimes
"Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing." ~ William James
2016
Portrait of Maui
"Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it." ~ Rod McKuen
Maui portrait cat feline kitty Oriental Shorthair pet animal mammal domestic cat related to Siamese almondshaped eyes triangular head large ears elongated slender muscular body vocal intelligent social athletic greeneyed genetically from Thailand Himalayan family of breeds fauna ebony silver spotted tabby
red leaves in winter ~ Michigan
"When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence." ~ Ansel Adams
2015
all the beauty ~ Huron River and Watershed
"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy." ~ Anne Frank
2015
rivers ~ Huron River
“At the time I did not know that stories of life are often more like rivers than books.” ~ Norman Maclean
leaf river Huron River fall stories water outdoors nature fallen challenge
Detroit, across the Belle Isle Bridge
"Everything you can imagine is real." ~ Pablo Picasso
2015
Albert Kahn, Architectural Design, 1904 ~ Michigan
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
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
2015
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
2015
tall grass ~ Huron River and Watershed
"Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable." ~ Mary Oliver
grass Huron River Watershed Michigan tufts birthday
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
2015 6.43.38
October Magic ~ Huron River
"Make your own magic -- life's too short not to fill it with everything that makes you smile." ~ Unknown
2015
into the woods ~ Huron River and Watershed
"It was her habit to build laughter out of inadequate materials." ~ John Steinbeck
2015
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
2015
Moorings ~ Huron River
"Mist veils the cold stream, and moonlight the sand, as I moor in the shadow of a river-tavern..." ~ Du Mu
2015
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
2015

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