Going up that river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth.
Joseph Conrad
with a doe skipping lightly through the shallows on a summer afternoon.

Fleming Creek, MIchigan
with a doe skipping lightly through the shallows on a summer afternoon.
Fleming Creek, MIchigan
Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.”
—Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Photo Challenge: Surprise
Kensington Park, Michigan