Green Heron and Fog

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Green Heron in the Fog – Merritt Island – January 2016

“We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”
Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

Quote found at https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/mysterious

Hanging by the Food

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Bird – Mullet Lake Park – January 2016

Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. -Saint Francis of Assisi

Lots of birds hanging out and eating these berries. Couldn’t ID this guy.

Quote found at http://ecosalon.com/40-quotes-on-new-beginnings-starts/

Showy Rattlebox

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Showy Rattlebox – Rt 50 and the St Johns River – January 2016

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. -Maria Robinson

The Showy Rattlebox (Crotalaria spectabilis) in a non native species in the pea family. Brought over from Europe to serve as a cover and nitrogen fixing plant in the southern US.

Quote found at http://ecosalon.com/40-quotes-on-new-beginnings-starts/

Yellow Buttons

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Yellow Buttons – Econ Wilderness Area – December 2015

One kind word can warm three winter months.” ~Japanese Proverb

Found some flowers growing along the trail today. Our winters aren’t much – but that doesn’t make the quote any less relevant – whatever the season.

Quote found at http://www.quotegarden.com/winter.html

Rock

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Rock – Salvadore Dali Museum – November 2015

“Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.”- Salvadore Dali

Even the rocks are magical here.

Featured image is a portion of the painting “Still Life Moving Fast” found in the Dali Museum in St Petersburg FL.

Quote found at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/165858.Salvador_Dal_?page=1