3-12-12

Photo by MWildHansen, Petoskey Breakwall

                 The wind shows us how close to the edge we are. -Joan Didion

12-5-11

Photo by MWildHansen
Young Chamois
Leobnermauer, Austrian Alps

Go out, go out I beg of you And taste the beauty of the wild.

Behold the miracle of the earth With all the wonder of a child.

8-22-2011

Mike Wild, Lake Michigan
 Photo by MWildHansen

He who binds to himself a joy

Does the winged life destroy;

But he who kisses the joy as it flies

Lives in eternity's sun rise

~ William Blake

6-25-2011

Rusty can and wild lupines
Photo M Wild Hansen

"Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful..."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

5-30-2011

The hill pines were sighing,
O'ercast and chill was the day.
A mist in the valley lying,
Blotted the pleasant May.
-Robert Bridges, English poet
Photo: Chippewa Lagoon by M Wild Hansen

5-29-2011

Photo- M Wild Hansen
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods;
There is a rapture on the lonely shore;
 I love not man the less, but Nature more.
-Lord Byron

5-24-11

Blossom by blossom the spring begins.
-Algernon Charles Swinburne

Photos MWildHansen
Rhododendron, May 2011

5-13-2011

photo by M Wild Hansen
Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning
-William Arthur Ward

5-1-2011

Photo by Erich Schoahs

One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese,

 cleaving the murk of March thaw is the spring.   

 -Aldo Leopold, American ecologist (1887-1948)

4-20-2011

Photo by M Wild Hansen


Live simply that others might simply live.
~Elizabeth Ann Seton

4-17-2011

Dave, Zach
Pentwater, 2007

"We all in the same boat, brother.  You rock it too far to the right you fall in the waddah, rock it too far to the left you fall in the same waddah and it's just as wet on  both sides."  -Huddie Ledbetter , 1888-1949  (A Blues musician, he called himself Lead Belly)

4-15-2011

Photo by M Wild Hansen April 2011
The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.
Pamela Hansford Johnson

4-9-11

Photo by M Wild Hansen

"The elements that unite to make the Grand Canyon the most sublime

 spectacle in nature are multifarious and exceedingly diverse."

~ John Wesley Powell (1834-1902)

4-8-11

Packard Plant, the long abandoned luxury auto assembly factory in Detroit
Photo M Wild Hansen

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy;

for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves;

we must die to one life before we can enter another.

  ~ Anatole France

3-27-2011

Ed Wild c. 1982

We do not stop playing because we grow old. 
 We grow old because we stop playing.  
~George Bernard Shaw

3-26-11

Photo M Wild Hansen 2010

The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.

~Voltaire

3-25-2011

Erich, Batchawana River, Canada
Photo by M Wild Hansen

Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted.

Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.

~Hans Margolius

3-25-2011

Photo by M Wild Hansen

Colors are the smiles of nature.

-Leigh Hunt

3-19-2011

Photo M Wild Hansen

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.

-Mark Overby

3-15-2011

Photo by M Wild Hansen

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea,

 whether it is to sail or to watch
 - we are going back from whence we came.

John F. Kennedy