My Grosbeak friend

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
and never stops at all.
-
Emily Dickenson

Untamed Shoreline

Let us permit nature to have her way.
She understands her business better than we do. ~Michel de Montaigne

The squirrel I feed in my yard

Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer.

~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

Moon at Dusk

“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”

- Buddha Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.)



*This photo was taken by my husband as we were enjoying the northern Michigan moon from the deck of our cabin.

Kayak Adventure

“We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character”

-Henry David Thoreau

Turtle

“Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.”

- James Bryant Conant




I found this little guy as I was kayaking on Little Bradford Lake. He had some buddies with him but as soon as I came closer with my boat, the rest of them slid back into the water.

Quiet Lake

Only in quiet waters do thing mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.

~Hans Margolius