“We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards.” —Dejan Stojanovic #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

“Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.” —Ralph Marston #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

This week’s Trail Tracing—Linne Woods. #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.” ~William James #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

The standoff. #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

Here’s looking at you kid. #coopershawk #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

“No one can tell you which choices to make. We can only show you by good example.” ~Jan Pishok #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.” ~Peter Ustinov #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

This week’s Trail Tracing—Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary. #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?” ~George Eliot #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

“Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.” —Anne Lamott #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #NatureBreak

This week’s Trail Tracing—Back home to sweet home Chicago and a visit to LaBagh Woods. A lovely day for a nature break. #fpdcc #LaBaghWoods #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

American Beautyberry. My first time seeing this plant. The purple color is amazing! #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

Bastrop State Park (Bastrop County, Texas). #bastropcounty #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

This week’s Trail Tracing—A trip to Austin, Texas to celebrate our 35th wedding anniversary. First night, we watched the bats take off on their nightly flight from the Congress Bridge. #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Austin #ArtInNature #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

“We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.” —Luciano De Crescenzo #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike # #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

“Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains.” —William Penn #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

“Compassion is daring to acknowledge our mutual destiny so that we might move forward... together.” ~Henri Nouwen #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

“Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.” ~Helen Keller #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

This week’s Trail Tracing—City Hike. We are fortunate to live less than a mile from Lake Michigan. So, this week, we took a city hike and visited the beautiful lake. Amazing clouds! #cityhike #LakeMichigan #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #TakeAHike #NatureBreak

“People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.” —Eckhart Tolle #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

“When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.” —Anne Lamott #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

“Don't forget to tell yourself positive things daily! You must love yourself internally to glow externally.” —Hannah Bronfman #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

Incoming! #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

What I want to be when I grow up. #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

This week’s Trail Tracing—Captain Daniel Wright Woods. A lovely visit to a favorite Lake County spot. #lakecounty #wrightwoods #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

Hold on, it’s almost the weekend! #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseupPhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

“No one goes his way alone; All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.” ~Edwin Markham #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

“I wonder what my life would be like if I were to focus my energy and thoughts only on things that really matter.” ~Robbie Rocheford #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

Dive in. #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

“Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?” ~Friedrich Nietzsche #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

This week’s Trail Tracing—River Park. Wild flowers galore, bees doing their thing, but dang (haha) it was hot! #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

You look like you could use a hug. #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

Rise up! #TrailTracing #flowers #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

Taman Ujung Water Palace, Bali, Indonesia #PalacesAndGardens #bali

Zoom in. #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

Let the light shine on you. #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

This week’s Trail Tracing—A lovely walk around our neighborhood. Blooms everywhere you look! #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

“The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.” —Coretta Scott King #community #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

“Do not bite at the bait of pleasure 'til you know there is no hook beneath it.” ~Thomas Jefferson #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

Wiggle party (haha!) Walnut Caterpillar (moth) #wiggle #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.” —Emily Dickinson #ready #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” ~William Arthur Ward #gratitude #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

This week’s Trail Tracing—Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary. We visited later in the day, dodged the rain, and pretty much had the place to ourselves. Nature in the city is always a winner. #montrosepoint #birdsanctuary #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #Nature #NatureBreak

“I need to learn who I am so that I can let go of behaviors built up around who I am not.” ~Eamon Furlong #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

“Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.” —Matthew Arnold #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

“Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.” —Homer #glow #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

“Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.” —Ralph Marston #rest #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

“Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.” —Henri Frederic Amiel #journey #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #Nature #TakeAHike #NatureBreak