Acorns
Taken December 8, 2016 in Dallas, Texas
These were lying on the sidewalk near my apartment in Dallas. I picked them up on my walk and made a winter candle decoration of them (with more added) later.
“When the oak is felled, the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.”
Seagull at the Lake
Taken November 2016 by Lake Michigan Shoreline in Fennville, Michigan
“I saw a seagull hanging out by a lake, but I said “Don’t worry Dude. I won’t say anything.””
I think this is a ring-billed gull. I see more of them in the late fall, and they are less afraid than the gulls I usually see in the summer. This one didn't fly away while I was taking pictures. He was also fearless about the cold waves crashing toward him from the lake.
Dune trail to the lake
Taken at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Michigan Coast on September 17 2016
“The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth.”