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  • About
  • Portfolio
    • Avian
    • Candid Portraits
    • Clouds
    • Coffee Life
    • Flowers
    • Journals and Pens
    • Leaves
    • Sunrises
    • Sunsets
  • Buy Prints
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  • landscape,  natural areas,  quotes,  reflections,  Reservoir Ridge Natural Area,  sunsets

    I needed this…

    September 5, 2022

    I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

    John Burroughs

    I awoke early yesterday morning, couldn’t go back to sleep so I got up earlier than I wanted. It has been a busy day but a very good day so I needed this sunset and the quiet at Claymore Lake last night. Hope everyone is having a good Labor Day weekend.

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  • landscape,  natural areas,  Pineridge Natural Area,  quotes,  silence,  sunrises

    Stillness of Morning Light

    May 16, 2022
    Sunrise at Pineridge Natural Area with a dirty lens

    Communing with God is communing with our own hearts, our own best selves, not with something foreign and accidental. Saints and devotees have gone into the wilderness to find God; of course they took God with them, and the silence and detachment enabled them to hear the still, small voice of their own souls, as one hears the ticking of his own watch in the stillness of the night. 

    John Burroughs
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  • John Barnhardt
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  • Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer – Poet
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  • Spiritual Directors International
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  • Victoria Erickson – Writer
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Native American Flutes Makers and Players

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