Black-billed Cuckoo

The truth of the matter is, the birds could very well live without us, 

but many -- perhaps all –   of us would find life incomplete, indeed almost intolerable without the birds.

Roger Tory Peterson

Sunflowers

                                

"Keep your face to the sunshine

and you cannot see the shadow.

It's what sunflowers do"

Helen Keller

9-11 NEVER FORGET

God Bless The USA

Michigan's Upper Peninsula

Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky. 

We fell them down and turn them into paper that we may record our emptiness.  

Kahlil Gibran