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

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/

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/