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CFFC: Eyes

04 Wednesday Jan 2023

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beach, birds, black and white photography, cat, CFFC, family, guinea pigs, nature, nature photography, pets, Photo Challenge, photography, Wilderness Wednesday


This is my submission for Cee Neuner’s Fun Foto Challenge: Eyes

CFFC: Caramel Squirrels

30 Wednesday Nov 2022

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CFFC, humour, nature, nature photography, Photo Challenge, photography, red squirrel, squirrel, squirrels, Weekly Photo Challenge, Wilderness Wednesday


Technically, they are red squirrels, but the Cee Neuner’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Caramel Colour, and I’ve been looking for an opportunity to “show off” recent photos of the stars of my backyard! We didn’t have any backyard babies this year…or perhaps, these squirrels were the backyard babies of 2019 or the dynamic duo of 2020.

The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny
about the barns and grain-fields.

John Burroughs

Wilderness Wednesday: Hummingbird

24 Wednesday Aug 2022

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Life’s not about waiting for the storm to pass…It’s about learning to dance in the rain.

Vivian Greene

Wilderness Wednesday: Creative Garden

03 Wednesday Aug 2022

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flowers, garden, nature, photography, Wilderness Wednesday


The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.

Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Happy Wednesday!

Wilderness Wednesday: Woody

27 Wednesday Jul 2022

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Many critics are like woodpeckers, who, instead of enjoying the fruit and shadow of a tree, hop incessantly around the trunk, pecking holes in the bark to discover some little worm or other.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Wilderness Wednesday: Gold Finches

20 Wednesday Jul 2022

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Sometimes goldfinches one by one will drop
From low hung branches; little space they stop;
But sip, and twitter, and their feathers sleek;
Then off at once, as in a wanton freak:
Or perhaps, to show their black and golden wings,
Pausing upon their yellow flutterings.

John Keats

Happy Wednesday!

Wilderness Wednesday: A Star is Born

15 Wednesday Jun 2022

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birds, close up, macro photography, nature, photography, red, Wilderness Wednesday


He knows he’s beautiful!

He knows that I know he’s beautiful.

So, in a rare moment of vanity, Mr. C posed for me. A star is born…

She said that that was what star quality was – that little something extra. Well, you’ve got it!

Norma Maine, A Star is Born (1954)

In My Garden: Tulips 2022

18 Wednesday May 2022

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flowers, garden, nature, nature photography, photography, tulips, Wilderness Wednesday


Here are the tulips, budded and full-blown,
their swoops and dips, their gloss and poses, the satin of their darks

Margaret Atwood, Dearly

A tulip doesn’t strive to impress anyone. It doesn’t struggle to be different than a rose. It doesn’t have to. It is different. And there’s room in the garden for every flower. 

Marianne Williamson

Wilderness Wednesday: Stouthearted

09 Wednesday Feb 2022

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birds, nature, photography, snow, Wilderness Wednesday, winter


Stouthearted / stoutˈhärdəd/ (adjective): stoutˈhärdəd/
Possessing or displaying courage; able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching
Synonyms: doughty, stalwart, brave, courageous, determined, obstinate

Merriam-Webster

Have you ever noticed that on some of the snowiest, blowiest days, the smallest creatures are the most visible?

I think, too often, we pay attention to the strongest, the loudest, the most confident around us, and we underestimate the smallest. Someone’s size or appearance should never be used to measure their worth because I believe those with a tender heart or a stoutheart come in many sizes.

And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.

J.R.R.Tolkien

Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one’s share of evils, than to be forever fearing what may happen.

Herodotus

It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the spirit.

J.R.R.Tolkien

Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

Winnie-the-Pooh

Happy Wednesday!

CFFC: Kammie’s Oddball Challenge

02 Wednesday Feb 2022

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forest, macro photography, nature, Photo Challenge, photography, walk, Wilderness Wednesday, woods


Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Margaret Hungerford

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week hooked up with Kammie’s Oddball Challenge. It’s an opportunity to showcase photos that “don’t make the cut” because they don’t quite fit in any category, yet they exist because something of visual interest caught the eye of the photographer.

Today I had to reign it in a bit because I have lots of “oddball” photos. You should meet my family! Instead, I focused on subtle signs of people deep in the woods. (Don’t worry – I skipped the dead raccoon photo)! 😉

Relish being an oddball: Well-behaved, well-adjusted people are hopeless storytellers and, honestly, terribly boring.

Twinkle Khanna
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