now this is what i call a room with a view.
—
“when you chop wood, chips fly”
-nikolai yezhov
Jul10
Category Archives: nature
Jun27
worth it.
“there are no shortcuts to any place worth going”
-beverly sills
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empire bluffs trail, empire, michigan, usa – june 2021
Jun26
view.
“tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue”
– thomas campbell (scottish poet)
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lake michigan, empire, michigan, usa – june 2021
Jun18
serenade.
a warm welcome from mother nature
walking with
2 grands
through
1 park
1 forest
finding
3 sister lakes
mother nature
and
forest daddy
a family affair.
3rd sister lake
“In memory of “Daddy” Filbert Roth
Head of Forestry School (UM)
1902-1923
By his Forestry Boys
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“nature is a serenade for souls willing to hear.”
-saba k.
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Dolph Park, Saginaw Forest, 3 Sister Lakes – Ann Arbor, MI, USA
June 2021
Jun3
waving.
yeti and olive – one waves hello, one nods goodbye
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“nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing;
but in their vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand,
in all her partings a promise of meeting farther along the road.”
-richard le gallienne – english poet
May22
delight.
another delightful discovery
—
“nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.”
-daniel boone
May18
under the canopy.
after hiking to the secret climbing tree
mother nature designed
only for kids
we enter under the canopy of emerald leaves
to find the magic inside.
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“wood is only one-syllable word, but behind it lies a world full of beauty and wonder.”
-theodor heuss
May14
butterflies are free.
after one final close look
at the butterflies we raised
it’s time to release them back into nature
where they quickly find their wings.
“the butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”
-rabindranath tagore
May7
tree dancer.
drove by
this lovely tree
dressed in all of it’s finest adornments
dancing to the wind.
—
“no matter how mighty and strong a tree is,
it will always dance to the tune of the wind.”
-okelola olamigoke
May3
tulips.
*”tulips are the only flowers that continue to grow, up to an inch or more, after they’re cut.”
-sarah jio
i find it fascinating that they refuse to surrender so easily
even defiantly growing longer
and,
there’s science.
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*Tulip stems do continue to lengthen once they’re snipped. That’s because the cells in their stems are particularly responsive to the plant hormone auxin, which causes them to elongate. Auxin also influences phototropism — the tendency of plants to grow toward light. – google
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art credit: watercolor by vadim
