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The cardinal is stunning - you are very lucky to have them in your life.

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Thank you - you are right!

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From Francis Bacon, “He that does not apply new remedies must expect new evils, for time is the great innovator.

Also from him is: Natural abilities are like natural plants, they need pruning by study.

Teresa of Avila- All things must come from its roots where it is planted. The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and produces more fruit.

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Thank you Pamela! Love that Teresa of Avila quote especially.

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https://rollingridge.net/

Their monthly newsletter is a good source for quotes, many of them nature themed. Love the picture of the heart in the clouds!

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Thank you Marianna, I will check it out!

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Stunning photos, so inspirational.

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Thank you Mary!

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In early May of this year, Vermont became the sixth state to officially designate a state mushroom: bear's head tooth, a white, long-toothed mushroom indigenous to the state. Most of the hoopla around it will happen in the fall when it emerges. Lots of schoolchildren involved. Also there was a quirky story in the NYT about the composer John Cage being instrumental in starting the New York Mycological Society, and in 1959 teaching a mushroom identification course at the New School.

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That's cool!

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Beautiful photos!

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Thank you!

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Good ol' "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations," which is in the public domain, I believe, has been updated with 3,000 new quotes and over 700 newly-added authors. "There must be a pony in there somewhere!" ;-)

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I've never heard of this reference! I will look it up!

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Oh! Look at those eaglets. Great shot.

Happy to send any quotes that you may want to use, or not.

( don’t get me started on fungal beauties…)

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Thank you Lor!

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Hi Karen, I love your photos. I am just now entering the substack world and would love to help you with some poems. I am an unpublished poet working on my manuscript. Let me know if you'd like to collaborate. I can send some lines of my poems that may fit your theme. Thinking out loud here and happy to send some samples. Cheers, Stella

"We are magical beings

Floating about

Asking if our magic is ever good enough"

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Wonderful Stella! I rarely know my theme until the last minute, but I like to use short poems, quotes, lines from poems in these drops of beauty posts for sure. I love this line.

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Wonderful, Karen. I’ll send some lines that I think would work!

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I'll keep seeing that heart in the clouds above the sun for many days to come! ✨🥰

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Yay! Thank you Sandy.

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You already quote my favorite authors so I don’t have anything new❤️🤷‍♀️. Love Mr. Cardinal ❤️👍 and all the bird pictures and yes.. I saw a heart in the clouds 👍❤️😍🥰

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Thank you Sharon!

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"the most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself" -Wallace Stevens

Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick." -Gwyneth Paltrow

"Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not the color, but to accept God's final decision on where your lips end." -Jerry Seinfeld

"If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger. and he can eat anything." -William Faulkner

"A sparrow fluttering about the church is an antagonist which the most profound theologian in Europe is wholly unable to overcome." -Sydney Smith

"If only I were a bird! Ah, but eating caterpillars?" -Palestinian proverb

"The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey." -Andy Warhol

"If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we wouldn't." -Emerson Pugh.

"Your brain, doctor, is a culture medium for question marks!" -Paul Valéry

"Your brain, doctor, is a culture medium for exclamation marks!" -me

"Never lend books; no one ever returns them. The only books I have in my library are books other people have lent me." -Anatole France

"The covers of this book are too far apart." -Ambrose Bierce

All of these from "If Ignorance is Bliss: Why aren't there more Happy People?", John Lloyd and John Mitchinson, Harmony Books, 2098

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Thank you Michael!

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Quote from Joanna Macy..."The heart that breaks open can hold the whole world."

Karen, your photos, so full of awe & wonder, can break a heart wide open as one contemplates Climate Change and our witting or unwitting destructive behavior. To think we are ushering in a "Silent Spring" breaks my heart wide open. Indeed so wide that I must figure out the best way to take action. Thank you Karen.

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Thank you Clark!

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Loved this. Felt like the cardinal at the end was showing up as a spirit for me even through email when I need to see him most. ♥️

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I love that Laura. I personally really love that photo, it speaks to me too. I'll probably print it for my home.

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Mushrooms are magical and mysterious life forms, need to learn more. And loved the butterflies.

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They are and I don't know much yet either! Thank you Sharon.

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