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/

Ear Tree

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Ear Tree – Rt 50 and the St Johns River – January 2016
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Ear Tree Seed Pod – Rt 50 and the St Johns River – January 2016

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. -George Bernard Shaw

This is about the northern range of the ear tree. At first I thought the pods on the ground were mushrooms!

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