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\"Setting<\/a>Setting Moon over the West Desert<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn\u2019t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Mark Twain<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

Looking back over the last 20 years of my life I can see many times where I threw off the bowlines and sailed away from safe harbor. I went exploring, I dreamed and discovered. I’ve been back and forth across the country more times than I can count plus seen new countries and explored each place I visited with the curiosity of a child.<\/p>\n

Because I explored, dreamed and discovered I found my passion for bird photography. I started off photographing the scenery of those new vistas which graduated to taking images of flowers and insects before my bird photography addiction set in.<\/p>\n

Explore. Dream. Discover. Then repeat again.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Looking back over the last 20 years of my life I can see many times where I threw off the bowlines and sailed away from safe harbor. 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