The weather slowly warmed as the month went on. The days lengthened to just over 14 hours of daylight by the end. And better yet, the sunny days began to outnumber the cloudy ones! Perfect for long walks on the beach and other explorations…
Photos, left to right, top to bottom: Wild waves, Sand Shrimp, Salmon River Estuary, Salp, White-crowned Sparrow, Same Bird During Feather-fluffing Shake, Young Male Black-tailed Deer, Sitka Spruce.
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
~ Mary Oliver
Acorn Woodpecker, Madera Canyon, Arizona 2009
If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning.
~ Catherine Aird
Peeing Elk, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming 2008
In time and with water, everything changes.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Surf, Heceta Head, Oregon May 2018
The Purist
I give you now Professor Twist,
A conscientious scientist.
Trustees exclaimed, “He never bungles!”
And sent him off to distant jungles.
Camped on a tropic riverside,
One day he missed his loving bride.
She had, the guide informed him later,
Been eaten by an alligator.
Professor Twist could not but smile,
“You mean,” he said, “a crocodile.”
Ogden Nash
Alligator, Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, Texas 2006
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
~ A.A. Milne
Columbia River, Portland, Oregon 2014
Little by little one travels far.
~ Spanish proverb
Snail, Portland, Oregon 2013
Crows have been busily munching on small critters in the swash zone at low tide. One of them made some interesting marks in the sand with its beak.
Lincoln City, Oregon April 2018
All serious daring starts from within.
~ Eudora Welty
Harris’s Antelope Squirrel (Ammospermophilus harrisii), Tucson, Arizona 2010
Begin each day as if it were on purpose.
~ Mary Anne Radmacher
Dandelion Puff Ball, Lincoln City, Oregon 2018
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