Let us endeavor to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
~ Mark Twain
Grave Marker, Pinal City Cemetery, Superior, Arizona 2005
Funny Friday
Say it out loud. Still don’t get it? Here’s a hint, it is located along the Big Muddy.
Red Wing, Minnesota 2009
07-27 Sol Shine
It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one’s sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and imperfectly, how to read and enjoy the wonder-book of nature.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Saguaro Arm, Tucson, Arizona 2009
07-26 Sol Shine
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
~ Anon.
Broadhead Skink male, Jekyll Island, Georgia 2007
Wordnesday
Spoondrift: noun, from spoon, variant of obsolete spoom (of a ship) to run or scud before the wind + drift, spray blown from waves during a gale at sea.
Spoondrift, Heceta Head, Oregon 2018
07-25 Sol Shine
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
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
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