Nature

Life flashes
Disguise beginnings
Perspective snap

Existence exhibits cyclic patterns.

“I’m the one that’s got to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.” – Jimi Hendrix

Explicitly study
Favorable influence
Great pleasure

It always takes a while to become sufficiently aware of a venues aesthetic potential.

“You’ll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.” – Charlie Chaplin

Very green
Fairly bold
Adult male

A startling color contrast against the reddish desert dirt, the collared lizard is capable of running swiftly using only its hind legs.

“I feel more human when I compare the cuteness of a lizard to a newborn child’s sweetness. Both are God’s creations filled with precious innocence.” – Munia Khan

Graying skies
Perfect moment
Indescribable magnificence

In dim light you can hear the honking Geese in flight long before visually locating their position.

“It’s not that geese can fly. It’s that they choose to.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough

Fine scale
Wind alignment
Biologic conjunction

Great ecological variety exists even within small formations.

“Either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into nature, where even antagonists depend on one another and the liveliest places are the edges, the in-betweens or both-ands….. Relations are what matter most.” – Michael Pollan

Common side
Blotched lizard
Sunbathing

It was a relatively cool day, which made this particular lizard slow to bolt from his sunny perch.

“He viewed us, as we passed him by, with calm and yet with questioning eye, but moveless still, as though the stone were portion of his being’s own.” – Edward Robeson Taylor

Low flight
Cast over
Wet sand

The Boat-tail Grackle is an aquatic creature, nesting in marshes and scavenging on beaches.

“Adult males have entirely iridescent black plumage, a long dark bill, a pale yellowish or brown iris, and a long keel-shaped tail.” – G. Thomas Bancroft

Boggy area
Rhizomatous roots
Long flat leaves

Water and life are tightly intertwined.

“Underwater, they provide a safe haven for tiny fish and attract many of the smaller aquatic creatures that birds and other wildlife feed on.” – Jackie Rhoades

Receptive perception
Direct sensitivity
Framed wildness

A wild horse in the Little Book Cliffs looks magnificent in the late afternoon sun.

“I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.” – Aldo Leopold

Sudden alarm
Compact maneuvers
Over the shoreline

Active little shore birds, dancing with the waves, are a year round fixture on the Outer Banks.

“Each incoming wave brought with it tiny life forms, they need to move fast their morsels for to win.” – Francis Duggan