Snowshoeing Aspen Park

“I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.”

-Rosalia de Castro

Winter Morning

I'll tell you how the sun rose a ribbon at a time. ~Emily Dickinson

Ice Break Up

“Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannot congeal in winter.”




Little Bradford Lake - the ice is finally starting to break up. My kayaking days can't be far behind now...

Perception on the Ausable River

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

~Hans Margolius

Moving River

“Love is like a river, never ending as it flows, but gets greater with time!”

-Author Unknown

Logs on the Ausable River

“The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.”

- Nagarjuna

Wildness

What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet,
Long live the weeds and the wildness yet.

~Gerard Manley Hopkins, Inversnaid

*This photo was shot in Gaylord, MI and I believe it is a part of Kolke Creek.

Ausable River

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

~Lao Tzu

More Pigeon River

“Love is the river of life in the world.” - Henry Ward Beecher

Thank you to Nature Lovin Super Mama for identifying this as the Pigeon River. For more information and great photos on the Pigeon River, I highly suggest you visit her blog by clicking here.

Moo

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.

~Dennis Wholey

Out into the wilderness

“In wilderness is the preservation of the world.”

- Henry David Thoreau

Rocks on the Ausable River

“If thou live according to nature, thou wilt never be poor; if according to the opinions of the world, thou wilt never be rich.”

-Seneca quotes (Roman philosopher, mid-1st century AD)

Frosty Branch

The frost performs its secret ministry, Unhelped by any wind.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Bridge over the Ausable River

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Isaac Newton

The wonder of trees

The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bird house

"People live like birds in the woods: When the time comes, each must take flight."

- Chinese Proverb

Winter Dusk

“People live for the dream in their hearts. And I have yet to know anyone who has not some secret dream, some hope, however dim, some storied wall to look at in the dusk, some painted window leading to the soul.”

-Zane Grey

Horses in winter

"He that can travel well afoot, keeps a good horse."

-Benjamin Franklin

Happy New Year!

"January is here, with eyes that keenly glow,
A frost-mailed warrior
striding a shadowy steed of snow."

- Edgar Fawcett

Split rail fence

There's something about a split rail fence that I think makes a house in the woods more homey.