28 Wednesday May 2014
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“Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.”
― Maya Angelou
“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.”
― Maya Angelou
27 Tuesday May 2014
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“In every out-thrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.”
― Rachel Carson
“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”
― Rachel Carson
“It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.”
― Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us
“If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.”
― Rachel Carson
“In nature nothing exists alone.”
― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
“But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.”
― Rachel Carson
“Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life.”
― Rachel Carson
24 Saturday May 2014
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Some stills from the wee forest video below. 
“One thing you can’t hide – is when you’re crippled inside.”
― John Lennon
“Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.”
– Jean Cocteau
“Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.”
― William Faulkner
Thank you for drizzling by,
Jubilant cheers,
Autumn Jade
18 Sunday May 2014
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A sylvan evening spent with a rambunctious family of Eastern screech owls
A great Evening a few days ago, golden rays.
Four little baby owls all in a row,
Cuter than cute.
Dancing and gyrating,
With Mom and Dad right nearby,
Watching over their nearly grown children.
11 Sunday May 2014
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Sad account by Sir, conveying an accident on the road involving a family of raccoons. Cheers.
Night Descending
Dusk, a simple cruise back home,
Busy road o’r a Friday night.
Swiftly took a hideous turn.
A raccoon Mother, shockingly so close to Mother’s Day,
Made a most tragic maternal mistake with her so very young offspring-
As all poured forth, just ahead of my four whirling wheels, I nowhere to turn.
A quick stop, but most painfully aware of I and my daughter’s safety,
And of those roaring machines lurking just in back and astride, still oblivious-
My horrendous braking choice made in an instant for all involved.
Those behind halted in time.
Those within came out fine.
But in front–sadness and grief.
The vibration and sound,
Told it all.
A little raccoon kit was no more.
Much sadness and grief
I have had in making this rough decision.
Who can be saved, but who may then be lost.
A taste of what,
Doctors and soldiers…
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A Day in the Brine 