This week’s Trail Tracing—Busse Woods (Cook County, Illinois). We were hoping to see some pelicans, but no such luck. We did see swans and a red-breasted Merganser.
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“There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
#TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #OMSystem #CloseUpPhotography #Welcome
“The rules are simple. Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in the love and whatever skill you have, and it will come out.”
—Chuck Jones
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If you pay attention, you may be amazed by the things you see. (At the top of a street sign—Barbie body with duck head!)
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This week’s Trail Tracing—A stroll to Lake Michigan. A Bufflehead sighting.
#TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
—e. e. cummings
#Grow #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak
“March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.”
—Khalil Gibran
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Fuzzy.
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This week’s Trail Tracing—Andersonville. Green stuff.
#InTheNeighborhood #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak
“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.”
—Joseph Campbell
#Follow #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak
“You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.”
~Irish proverb
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“The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.”
—Khalil Gibran
#Enter #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak
“Character develops itself in the stream of life.”
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Stream #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak
“Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.”
—N. R. Narayana Murthy
#stuck #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak
This week’s Trail Tracing—Cuba Marsh (Lake County).
#TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak
“Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.”
—William Cowper
#Variety #Shells #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak
“Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.”
—Thomas Carlyle
#TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak #onlyinillinois #naturalillinois
“I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me all at once.”
—Ashleigh Brilliant
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Early morning fog at the beach. All together…breathe.
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Graffiti Alphabet
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“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”
—Maya Angelou
#Home #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak
“The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.”
—Nathaniel Branden
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“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
—T. S. Eliot
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“Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world.”
—Allen Klein
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This week’s Trail Tracing—LaBagh Woods. Being in nature is always nice!
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“The true name of eternity is today.”
—Philo
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“The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.”
—Charles R. Swindoll
#Embrace #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak
No surrender.
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“Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.”
—Vernon Howard
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