Photo Challenge: Intersection of Fate and Choice

Not every intersection needs a traffic light

 

Every path but your own is the path of fate.  Keep on your own track then.

–Henry David Thoreau

Photo Challenge:  Corner  

 

Kensington Park, Michigan

I spotted a local commuter just around the bend.

 

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Photo Challenge: Summer Sunshine’s Invitation

The summer sunshine is inviting you to explore a woodland trail…

Huron National Forest, Michigan to

Photo Challenge:  Shiny

 

to listen to the whisper of a pristine brook

Corsair Creek

to contemplate the changes that time brings to Nature.

Photo Challenge: Light Shines in the Darkness

The light from above, streaming down through a forest canopy, will always stop me in my tracks and capture my attention.

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness can never extinguish it.

–John 1:5

A few words  apropos for a troubled time in the United States.

Photo Challenge:  Shiny 

 

Huron National Forest, Michigan

Hartwick Pines, Michigan

Tacquahmenon State Park, Michigan

Discretion, the Better Part of Valor

Today, I saw this big guy wading on a beach along Lake Huron, the second most northerly of the Great Lakes.  The water looked inviting for a swim, until I put my foot in.  Then, I could see that the crane was the wiser of us, as he stuck to wading.

testing the waters of Lake Huron

The Music of a Different Drummer

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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.  Let him step to the music which he hears, no matter how measured or far away.

–Henry David Thoreau

On the 200th anniversary of Thoreau’s birth, this view from northern Michigan’s forest primeval.

Pigeon River Forest, Michigan

Poetry of the Earth

The poetry of the earth is never dead

–John Keats

Newburgh Lake, Michigan

Poetry in Prose

Always be a poet, even in prose.

Charles Baudelaire

You may happen upon poetry in the sound of a brook rushing over rocks on a summer afternoon.