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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."
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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
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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
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Red-breasted Merganser, Male ~ Mergus serrator ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Our greatest experiences are our quietest moments." ~ Friedrick Neitzsche
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Red-breasted Merganser ~ Mergus serrator ~ Southern Outer Banks
"What good are wings without the courage to fly." ~ Atticus
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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
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White Ibis ~ Eudocimus albus ~ Southern Outer Banks
“In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.” ~ Robert Lynd
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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
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Double-crested Cormorant ~ Phalacrocorax auritus ~ Southern Outer Banks
Harbor Master
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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.TernSterna.forsteriSouthern Outer BanksAtlantic OceanNorth Carolinaterncommashaped black ear patchforked.tailcoastal beachplungerbirdbirdinflightEmerald IsleBogue BanksCrystal CoastoceanseasideAtlanticoutdoorwatersplash
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.”
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White Ibis ~ Eudocimus albus ~ Southern Outer Banks
"We are always the same age inside." ~ Gertrude Stein
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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 AngelsunlightmorningdewharborSouthern Outer BanksNorth CarolinaCrystal CoastEmerald IsleBogue Bankssoundsidewaterboatdew 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.
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cool, blue morning ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify." ~ Henry David Thoreau
Emerald IsleSouthern Outer Banksbluedawnsoundisland.in.the.AtlanticBogue BanksCrystal Coastsea.islemorningreflectionsBogue SoundNorth Caorlinanatureminimalismoutdoorwaterbirthday
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
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Double-crested cormorant ~ Phalacrocorax auritus ~ Southern Outer Banks
“La terre est le probable paradis perdu.” ~ de Federico Garcia Lorca
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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
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
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Willet ~ Tringa semipalmata ~ Southern Outer Banks
"In the end, we all become stories." ~ Margaret Atwood
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flying White Ibis ~ Eudocimus albus ~ Southern Outer Banks
“I go to seek a Great Perhaps.” ~ François Rabelais
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
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 CarrolleveningSouthern Outer BanksNorth CarolinaEmerald IsleBogue BanksCrystal CoastseaoceanAtlantic Oceansandwaterskydunessunlightsea 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
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Maui, our beautiful Oriental Shorthair
"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats." ~ Albert Schweitzer
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
Portrait of Maui
"Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it." ~ Rod McKuen
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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
all the beauty ~ Huron River and Watershed
"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy." ~ Anne Frank
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
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
tall grass ~ Huron River and Watershed
"Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable." ~ Mary Oliver
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
October Magic ~ Huron River
"Make your own magic -- life's too short not to fill it with everything that makes you smile." ~ Unknown
into the woods ~ Huron River and Watershed
"It was her habit to build laughter out of inadequate materials." ~ John Steinbeck
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
Moorings ~ Huron River
"Mist veils the cold stream, and moonlight the sand, as I moor in the shadow of a river-tavern..." ~ Du Mu
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
