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Mushrooms are miniature pharmaceutical factories, and of the thousands of mushroom species in nature, our ancestors and modern scientists have identified several dozen that have a unique combination of talents that improve our health.
Paul Stamets
True friends are like bright sunflowers that never fade away, even over distance and time. ~Marie Williams Johnstone
There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
Souvenir from Lake in Michigan
In the January frost.
Otherwise known as - Physalis alkekengi, bladder cherry, bladder herb, Chinese lantern plant, devil's berry, devil's bladder, Japanese lantern, red nightshade, red winter cherry,
strawberry tomato, strawberry-and-tomato, winter cherry.
Real flowers are much more beautiful than plastic ones, in part because of their impermanence. People appreciate the seasons, the autumn and the spring, because the seasons are a process of change. Each season is a precious time. In this way, impermanence is beauty.
~Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
“It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.” — Wendell Berry
“It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.” —David Attenborough
I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful — an endless prospect of magic and wonder. –Ansel Adams
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. ~Charles A. Lindbergh, Life, 1967 December 22nd
“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.”— Henry David Thoreau
“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.” – J.K. Rowling
A photo walk around the property today and while there was still not much in bloom there were quite a variety of purple wild-flowers.
Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again. ~Gautama Buddha
The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life. James Cromwell
“When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.” – Eckhart Tolle
What the world needs most is openness: Open hearts, open doors, open eyes, open minds, open ears, open souls.
Robert Muller
La bonne vieille mouche domestique. Bien tranquille au coucher du soleil permettant de s'approcher un peu et de faire du focus stacking. 36 images empilées.
This good old housefly resting or sleeping at sunset as the temperature was dropping. It gives me the time to close up and take my time. 36 pictures focus stacked.
He was looking for the Caterpillar he once saw, but to his surprise all he found was a Butterfly! :)
"The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are." ~Rumi
Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.
~ Albert Einstein
Luke at my house being a dog. As the photographer I worked on being more patient with my dog. Everyone makes pet photography look so easy, but with a high energetic dog like Luke it is not. And working on my own I am not able to have an assistant do as I need them to do, so I do what I can and get the best results I can.