We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
~ Frederick Koenig
Sapsucker, Madera Canyon, Arizona 2009
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Erin
Coddiwompling through life, guided by my love of nature and insatiable curiosity.03-14 Sol Shine
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us…
~ Marcel Proust
Beach Trail, Long Beach, Washington 2012
Location, Location, Location
Two west-facing houses across the street from the ocean with two vastly different viewpoints…
03-13 Sol Shine
My soul can find no staircase to heaven unless it be through the earth’s loveliness.
~ Michelangelo
03-12 Sol Shine
The longer you wait for the future, the shorter it will be.
~ Loesje
John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Oregon 2008
03-11 Sol Shine
If you don’t make mistakes you are not really trying.
~ Coleman Hawkins
Western Screech Owl, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, Arizona 2008
03-10 Sol Shine
Nature is satisfied with little: and if she is, I am also.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Desert Cottontail, Tucson, Arizona
Wee Sand Dollar
Shortly after moving to the Central Oregon Coast I was delighted to find a tiny Sand Dollar (Dendraster excentricus)*, roughly the size of a dime. It was the smallest one I had yet found…until today.
How in the world did this tiny, delicate, calcium carbonate structure survive the pounding surf, tumbling beach cobbles, and footsteps of beach combers? New treasures every day…
Today’s wee Sand Dollar, both tiny Sand Dollars.
*Technically, I found Sand Dollar tests (the proper term for their skeletal remains).
03-09 Sol Shine
The soul survives its adventures.
~ G.K. Chesterton
Thistle, Catalina State Park, Arizona 2008
03-08 Sol Shine
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Whelan Lake, California 2008
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