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Echoes from the Wild: In the Quiet of the Reeds
Echoes From the Wild, Photo Essays Lona Downs 5/7/25 Echoes From the Wild, Photo Essays Lona Downs 5/7/25

Echoes from the Wild: In the Quiet of the Reeds

The elusive Shoebill... I wanted to meet him in the wild—not in captivity. In the stillness of a quiet swamp, we met eyes. No barrier. No flinch. Just presence. This is how I hoped to see him… and how I’ll always remember it.

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When life gets heavy, I retreat to the beach. 🌊

There’s something about being in nature—the rhythm of the tide, the flight of the sandpipers, the quiet of the shore—that centers me. It reminds me to breathe, to think, to rest. In
Splash down Alaska….

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Katmai National Preserve is never still. Just as one bear stretched out in the stream beside us, (see previous post) a mother and her two cubs crossed a distant ridge above.

A reminder to keep the eyes moving, because the wild rarely gives just one

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