A Thousand Words

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

"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