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a little r&r ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
“and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.”
― Ruskin Bond
pinnate prairie coneflower ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see." ~ Alexandra K. Trenfor
Mute Swan and the River ~ Cygnus olor ~ Huron River, Michigan
“The river is such a tranquil place, a place to sit and think of romance and the beauty of nature, to enjoy the elegance of swans and the chance of a glimpse of a kingfisher.” ~ Jane Wilson-Howarth
common teasel ~ Dipsacus fullonum, Honeysuckle family ~ Huron River and Watershed
"What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it." ~ C. S. Lewis
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cut-leaf teasel ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"Would the valleys were your streets, and the green paths your alleys, that you might seek one another through vineyards, and come with the fragrance of the earth in your garments." ~ Gibran
Golden Flower ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars." ~ Rabindranath Tagore
summertime ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
Summertime,
And the living is easy.
Fish are jumping,
And the cotton is high.
Oh, your daddy's rich,
And your mamma's good-looking.
So, hush little baby,
Don't you cry.
One of these mornings,
You're going to rise up singing.
Then you'll spread your wings,
And you'll take to the sky.
But till that morning,
There's nothing can harm you,
With daddy and mommy standing by.
~ lyrics by DuBose Hayward
Eastern Kingbird ~ Tyrannus tyrannus ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper." W. B. Yeats
shortly after the summer solstice 2015 ~ Eastern Continental United States
"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything. " ~ Plato
Maine coastline ~ Eastern Seaboard
"There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor." ~ Charles Dickens
pickerel rush and early morning light ~ Hancock Pond, Maine
"Let us look for secret things somewhere in the world, on the blue shore of silence or where the storm has passed, rampaging like a train. There the faint signs are left, coins of time and water, debris, celestial ash and the irreplaceable rapture of sharing in the labour of solitude and the sand." ~ Pablo Neruda
evening ~ Hancock Pond, Maine
"The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is...." ~ Marcel Proust
Common Loon, liftoff ~ Gavia immer ~ Hancock Pond, Maine
"Come here, Norman. Hurry up. The loons! The loons! They're welcoming us back." ~ Katherine Hepburn, "On Golden Pond"
a little while before evening ~ Hancock Pond, Maine
"I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light." ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
rose in bloom ~ Hancock Pond, Maine
"But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose." ~ Anne Brontë
feasting on Lupines ~ Hancock Pond, Maine
"And, thou, wan Beggar, who hast felt the lash of Keen Adversity ~ hast made thy feast on lupines and on lentil ~ whom the crash of every hope hath leveled with the beast that haunts earth's dark defiles ~ let Reason flash this truth across thee, that, when kings have ceased their worldly sway, their lot ~ like thine ~ shall be (as they deserve) woe or felicity." ~ Robert Calder Campbell
Wild Laughter of the Loon ~ Hancock Pond, Maine
"No sadder sound salutes you than the clear, wild laughter of the loon." ~ Celia Thaxter
Days of Wine and Roses ~ Eastern Seaboard
"They are not long, the days of wine and roses. Out of a misty dream, our path emerges for a while, then closes, within a dream. ~ Ernest Dowson
pickerel rush and ripples ~ Hancock Pond, Maine
"I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” ~ Mother Teresa
pickerel rush and ripples ~ Hancock Pond, Maine
"Thousands have lived without love, not one without water." ~ W. H. Auden
fishing ~ Hancock Pond, Maine
"Then he felt the gentle touch on the line, and he was happy." ~ Ernest Hemingway
sea of Rhododendrons ~ by the sea ~ Maine
"... a rhododendron walks among the rocks shod in leathery leaves and ringing a pink bell." ~ Czeslaw Milosz
"Spirit of the North" ~ Common Loon ~ Gavia immer ~ Hancock Pond, Maine
"In the middle of the night, as indeed each time that we lay on the shore of a lake, we heard the voice of the loon, loud and distinct, from far over the lake. It is a very wild sound, quite in keeping with the place and the circumstances of the traveler, and very unlike the voice of a bird. I could lie awake for hours listening to it, it is so thrilling." ~ Henry David Thoreau
Maine green and blue ~ Hancock Pond, Maine
"I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine." ~ Parker Stevenson
misty evening ~ Hancock Pond, Maine
"To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts." ~ Henry David Thoreau
pickerel rush and reflections ~ Hancock Pond, Maine
"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new." ~ Socrates
Rhododendron ~ Hancock Pond, Maine
"So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings...." ~ J. M. Barrie
misty morning ~ Hancock Pond, Maine ~ flew to Maine to visit with Sister Carolyn Van Cise and friends ~ June 2015
"A smile is the shortest distance between two people." ~ Victor Borge
magnolia blossom ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"In every conceivable manner, the family is a link to our past, bridge to our future." ~ Alex Haley
wild Columbine ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"With freedom, books. flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?" ~ Oscar Wilde
Blue Jay ~ Cyanocitta cristata ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated." ~ Terry Tempest Williams
Woodland Geranium ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions: When did you stop dancing? When did you stop singing? When did you stop being enchanted by stories? When did you stop finding comfort in the sweet territory of silence?" Gabrielle Roth
Woodland Geraniums ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution." ~ Ansel Adams
wisteria ~ Michigan
"Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography." ~ George Eastman
Japanese Tree Peony ~ Michigan
"In the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught." ~ Baba Dioum
polar bear, enjoying his swim
"Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us." ~ Leo Tolstoy
American Flamingo ~ Phoenicopterus ruber
"Beauty lingers somewhere in the twilight, waiting for us to find it, never quite ready to have its picture taken." Jim Richardson, National Geographic Photographer
Bald Eagle ~ Haliaeetus leucocephalus
"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper." ~ W.B. Yeats
The Royal Tern Trio ~ Thalasseus maximus ~ Southern Outer Banks
"To make living itself an art, that is the goal." ~ Henry Miller
Royal Tern ~ Thalasseus maximus ~ Southern Outer Banks
"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong." ~ Joseph Chilton Pearce
castles in the sand ~ Southern Outer Banks
"There's always room for another story that can transport people to another place." ~ J. K. Rowling
Northern Mockingbird ~ Mimus polyglottos ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." ~ Pablo Picasso
Pileated Woodpecker ~ Dryocopus pileatus ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Stories never really end... even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories alway go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page." ~ Cornelia Funke
Royal Tern in Flight ~ Thalasseus maximus ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Nature, whose sweet rains fall of just and unjust alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undetected. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole." ~ Oscar Wilde
Sanderlings ~ Calidris alba ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise." ~ Margaret Atwood
sunset ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is not art." ~ Leonardo da Vinci
Forster's Tern ~ Sterna forsteri ~ Southern Outer Banks
“So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings...” ~ J. M. Barrie
