Who you are is what you settle for, you know?
~ Janis Joplin
Bison Scratching an Itch, National Bison Range, Charlo, Montana 2018
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Erin
Coddiwompling through life, guided by my love of nature and insatiable curiosity.09-19 Sol Shine
I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Mine Workings, near Superior, Arizona 2005
09-18 Sol Shine
Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
~ André Gide
Driftwood Message, Lincoln City, Oregon 2018
The Beginning of the End
Whew – my last month of summer was crazy busy! It began when my Aunt Polly came for a weeklong visit (her first trip to the Pacific Northwest). The following week I attended two workshops at the Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, volunteered at the Lincoln City Cultural Center, and donated blood. A few days later my BFF Lisa and I drove out to Glacier National Park (where we met while working during the summer 20 *gasp* years ago). It was a packed eight days, full of great memories and new adventures. A day after our return my old friend Hector from North Carolina flew in for a quick visit which we divided between two beautiful bodies of water; the Pacific Ocean and Crater Lake.
Since my return home on Saturday I’ve been appeasing a crabby cat, doing laundry, and trying to catch up on all that I’ve neglected. I also have a bazillion new photos to sort through. But I’m not complaining, it was a wonderful way to wrap up the last month of Summer!
Too many photos to share at once, so I’ll start with the ones from the beginning of the end (my aunt’s visit):
Polly at Cape Meares Lighthouse
Red-flowering Currant Fruit
Stunning Smoky Sunset
Queen Anne’s Lace with Red Heart
Measuring a Dungeness Crab
Salmon from Siletz Bay
Clamming Siletz Bay
Ghost Shrimp
Polly Examing the Tidepools
Yaquina Head Lighthouse
Ornate Hinges at the Bush House
Brass Rabbit Ear Faucet in the Bush House
09-17 Sol Shine
Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.
~ Horace
Spiny-tailed Iguana, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, Arizona 2014
09-15 Sol Shine
Destitutus ventis, remos adhibe. – If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
~ Latin proverb
Kayaking on Swiftcurrent Lake, Glacier National Park, Montana 2018
09-14 Sol Shine
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
~ Mark Twain
Western Screech Owl, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, Arizona 2008
09-13 Sol Shine
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
~ Rumi
Blacksmith, Fort Snelling, St. Paul, Minnesota 2009
09-12 Sol Shine
I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in the darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.
~ Hafiz
Heceta Head Lighthouse, Florence, Oregon 2018
09-11 Sol Shine
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Red Alder Canopy, Lincoln City, Oregon 2018
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