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Trail Tracing — Trace H

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I am a nature lover, an OM System/Olympus camera and lens user, a weekly hike photo poster, and an inspirational quote quoter. All images posted are mine and (c).

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This week’s Trail Tracing—River Park. A rainy morning turned into a lovely midday outing.

#TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

02.11.2025 22:39 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you!

31.10.2025 20:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🎶 “The itsy-bitsy spider….”

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

31.10.2025 11:46 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“It's only moment by moment that we experience life.”
—Karen Casey

#TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

30.10.2025 12:31 — 👍 23    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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“🎶 It's not easy being green…”.

#FallLeaves #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

29.10.2025 11:54 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Suspended.

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

28.10.2025 12:33 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“To begin, begin.”
—William Wordsworth

#begin #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

27.10.2025 12:33 — 👍 25    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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This week’s Trail Tracing…Cap Sauers Holding. Ahhhhh!!!

#fpdcc #CapSauers #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

27.10.2025 02:51 — 👍 18    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
—Charles A. Beard

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

17.10.2025 13:52 — 👍 14    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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“Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.”
—Ralph Fiennes

#TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

16.10.2025 14:32 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks. It one of the places we visit multiple times throughout the year.

15.10.2025 18:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

For a few years, I've been using two Cotton “holsters” attached to a backpack that I carry when hiking. It's a great system for keeping cameras safe and readily available and for allowing arms to be free when climbing/scrambling.

15.10.2025 15:45 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
—Dalai Lama

#Compassion #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

15.10.2025 14:40 — 👍 17    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Hang on!

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

14.10.2025 12:23 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Here's looking at you, kid. 😍

#deer #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

13.10.2025 12:33 — 👍 18    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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This week’s Trail Tracing—Harms Woods (Glenview, Illinois). The fall colors are slowly coming!

#TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

12.10.2025 16:15 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Thanks. There were many bathing geese in the Des Plaines river, and I love the proud energy of this one.

10.10.2025 20:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A “rousing” goose.
FYI—the wing flapping action to remove water from their wings is called rousing.

#TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

10.10.2025 12:49 — 👍 20    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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“In wildness is the preservation of the world.”
—Henry David Thoreau

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

08.10.2025 13:03 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks!

07.10.2025 15:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.”
—Julie Andrews

#TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

07.10.2025 12:39 — 👍 52    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
A skinny dry golden brown plant branch leaning upwards left and curving at the end covered by a spider’s web.

A skinny dry golden brown plant branch leaning upwards left and curving at the end covered by a spider’s web.

“Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.”
—Mother Teresa

#reach #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

06.10.2025 12:41 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This week’s Trail Tracing—Ryerson Woods. Very warm for early October, but we are not complaining haha!

#RyersonWoods #TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

05.10.2025 15:59 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Lift off!

#TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #Olympus #OMSystem #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

03.10.2025 12:20 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Rise up!

#TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently # #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

02.10.2025 13:56 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears that this is true.”
—James Branch Cabell

#TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #CloseUpPhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak

01.10.2025 13:24 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“Every forward step we take, we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.”
—John Spalding

#TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #ArtInNature #Nature #TakeAHike #LandscapePhotography #NatureBreak

30.09.2025 12:34 — 👍 23    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This weeks’s Trail Tracing…West Ridge Nature Preserve.

#TrailTracing #SeeThingsDifferently #ArtInNature #Nature #CityHike #NatureBreak

29.09.2025 12:32 — 👍 14    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Road — Blue Sky Art Show
#BlueSkyArtShow #TheRoad

27.09.2025 14:34 — 👍 16    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“Life is tragic. The human condition is fatal. The earth is insatiable. But it’s still pretty in sunlight, isn’t it?”
—Daily Stoic

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

26.09.2025 14:58 — 👍 16    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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