on the wing
Read MoreNorthern Flicker ~ Colaptes auratus ~ Lake Huron
"I'm going to make everything around me beautiful ~ that will be my life." ~ Elsie de Wolfe
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Song Sparrow ~ Melospiza melody ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"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
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Baltimore Oriole ~ Icterus galbula ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"And that other self, who watches me from the distance of decades, what will she say? Will she look at me with hatred or with compassion, I whose choices made her what she will be?" ~ Jane Hirshfield
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House Sparrow, Female ~ Passer domesticus ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring enough worries of its own." ~ Matthew 6:34
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Gray Catbird ~ Dumetella carolinensis ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world." ~ Joanne Harris
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Downy ~ Picoides pubescent ~ Michigan
"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery, rather than avenge it?" ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
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Scarlet Tanager, male ~ Piranga olivacea ~ Scio Woods Preserve, Michigan
"The real voyage of discovery is not in seeking new places, but in seeing with new eyes." ~ Marcel Proust
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American Herring Gull ~ Larus argentatus ~ Lake Michigan
"Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul." ~ Walt Whitman
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Downy Woodpecker, female ~ Picoides pubescent ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." ~ George Bernard Shaw
Downy WoodpeckerPicoides pubescentAFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IINikon D7100MichiganbirdContinental United StatesHuron River Watershed
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Red-tailed Hawk ~ Buteo jamaicensis ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all." ~ Aristotle
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Red-tailed Hawk, manteling ~ Buteo jamaicensis ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"Honor the space between no longer and not yet." ~ Nancy Levin
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Green Heron, Juvenile ~ Butorides virescens ~ Huron River, Michigan
"I shall ask into my shell only those friends with whom I can be completely honest. I find am shedding hypocrisy in human relationships. What a rest that will be. The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere." ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Cardinal, female ~ Michigan
"...so softly you go in your swagger." ~ Pablo Neruda
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Willet over the Atlantic ~ Tringa semipalmata ~ Southern Outer Banks
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inner significance." ~ Aristotle
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Ruby-Crowned Kinglet ~ Regulus calendula ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Wash the gum from our eyes and dress ourselves for the dazzle of light." ~ Walt Whitman
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Sanderlings ~ Calidris alba ~ Lake Michigan
"When you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky." ~ Buddha
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Red-tailed Hawk, manteling ~ Buteo jamaicensis ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"If I got rid of my demons, I'd lose my angels." ~ Tennessee Williams
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White Ibis ~ Eudocimus albus ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down." ~ Ray Bradbury
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pointing the way ~ Blue Jay in flight ~ Cyanocitta crostata ~ Lake Huron
"Embrace the glorious mess that you are." ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
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American Herring Gull ~ Larus argentatus ~ road trip to Lake Michigan with new D7100 and lens
"Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world." ~ Voltaire
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American Goldfinch ~ Spinus tristis ~ Huron River, Michigan
"Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Brown Pelicans ~ Pelecanus occidentals ~ Southern Outer Banks
"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
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Sanderling ~ Calidris alba ~ Lake Michigan
"You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved." ~ Ansel Adams
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Brown Pelican ~ Pelecanus occidentals ~ Southern Outer Banks
"There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor." ~ Charles Dickens
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Ring-billed Gull ~ Larus delawarensis ~ Southern Outer Banks
"A place to rest, maybe linger awhile
With those who've been, and those who'll be,
With nature and me." ~ Jo ReussRingbilled gullNorth CarolinaPine Knoll ShoresCrystal CoastislandBogue BanksAtlantic OceanLarus delawarensisbirdbirdinflightgullgulllike birdNikon D7100AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IIContinental United Statesgolden hourinflightcover
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pointing the way ~ Blue Jay perching ~ Cyanocitta crostata ~ Lake Huron
"When I have ceased to break my wings against the faultiness of things, and learned that compromises wait behind each hardly opened gate, when I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth." ~ Sara Teasdale
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four greylag geese a-swimming ~ Anser anser ~ Huron River, Michigan
“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.” ~ Jim Rohn
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American Avocets, breeding plumage ~ Recurvirostra americana ~ Lake Michigan
"In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you." ~ Buddha
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American Goldfinch ~ Spinus tristis ~ Huron River, Michigan
“A picture is a secret about a secret ~ the more it tells you, the less you know.” ~ Diane Arbus..
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American Avocets ~ Recurvirostra americana ~ Lake Michigan
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American Avocets, breeding plumage ~ Recurvirostra americana ~ Lake Michigan
"To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.” ~ Elliott Erwitt
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Ring-billed Gull ~ Larus delawarensis ~ Lake Michigan
"Because, when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing." ~ unknown
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American Avocets, breeding plumage~ Recurvirostra americana ~ Lake Michigan
“The principal and proper work of history being to instruct, and enable men by the knowledge of actions past to bear themselves prudently in the present and providently in the future.” ~ Thomas Hobbes
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on the wing ~ Southern Outer Banks ~ 2nd winter sojourn to Pine Knoll Shores, North Carolina, with special guests ~ January 6, 2014
“There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they find to laugh at.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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