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When giving to others please consider a gift that keeps giving.  Thank you!  Mary

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The Nature Conservancy –

Protecting nature. Preserving life.

www.nature.org

My donations this year are directed towards helping the Nature Conservancy protect rain forest in Costa Rica, Africa’s grasslands and Savannas and the lands of Las Californias. Helping the Earth and trying to offset my carbon debt.

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Heifer International –

Ending Hunger. Caring for the Earth

www.heifer.org

Here my choice is to buy goats as goats can feed a family, eat nearly anything and often have twins.

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Sierra Club –

Explore, enjoy and protect the planet.

www.sierraclub.org

A friend and photographer once told me that it is our responsibility as photographers to help save the earth. Indeed.

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St. Anthony’s Center – Williamsport PA

100% of donations go to help feed, clothe, provide medical assistance and care for the less fortunate. Without judgment they simply care greatly and give of themselves.

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Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better. Albert Einstein

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“Hold out the olive branch”

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Sunday when I was biking around the St Helena area I rode by this vineyard and as it was late in the day I saw the reflective color and light in the autumn leaves. Yesterday I returned, camera in hand, and shot the new grass and old vines.

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