Now that all your worry has proved such an unlucrative business, why not find a better job?
~ Hafiz
Exhausted Boy, National Mall, Washington D.C. 2007
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Erin
Coddiwompling through life, guided by my love of nature and insatiable curiosity.New at Spring Lake
Another windy afternoon shooed me off the beach and into the calmness of the woods around Spring Lake. The trail continues to surprise me with new and interesting things to examine.
Weird mushrooms growing on mushrooms. A jumble of three fern species fighting for space (as if that’s the only spot for a fern to grow). An old log playing host to a wide variety of life forms (a tree up here hosts more living cells when it’s dead than when it’s alive). The last of the Salmonberries. Ripening Red Elderberries. And more flowers – a promise of future berries.
Mushroom Growing on Mushroom
Mushroom
Tiny White Mushrooms Growing on Larger Black Mushroom
Delicate White Fungus
Trio of Ferns: Sword, Deer, Wood
Log, Filled with Life
Overripe Salmonberry
Glowing Salmonberry
Ripening Red Elderberries
Red Elderberries
Yellow Flower
Blackberry Blossom
07-24 Sol Shine
The next time your mind wanders, follow it around for a while.
~ Jessica Masterson
Trail of the Cedars Bridge, North Cascades National Park, Washington 2008
07-23 Sol Shine
We’re not meant to fit in. We’re meant to stand out.
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
Vermilion Flycatcher, Tucson, Arizona 2008
07-22 Sol Shine
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
~ Maya Angelou
Leafy Spurge Hawkmoth caterpillar, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota 2010
07-21 Sol Shine
It’s not what happens to you. It’s what you do before it, during it, and after it.
~ Alan Weiss
Desert Bluebell, Tucson, Arizona 2008
07-20 Sol Shine
If you make a mistake, don’t live in it.
~ Benjamin Alire Saenz
Tarantula Wasp with Tarantula, Tucson, Arizona 2012
07-19 Sol Shine
If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
~ Bruce Lee
Petroglyphs featuring Horseback Riders, Arches National Park, Utah 2006
07-18 Sol Shine
I cannot give you the formula for success but I can give you the formula for failure. It is: Try to please everybody.
~ Herbert Bayard Swope
Western Diamond-backed Rattlesnake, Sweetwater Wetlands, Tucson, Arizona 2014
07-17 Sol Shine
In all things it is better to hope than to despair.
~ Johann W. von Goethe
Western Meadowlark, Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge, California/Oregon 2008
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