Horse Drawn Carriage

Motorized vehicles have been prohibited since 1898 on Mackinac Island, Michigan, a popular tourist attraction. Exceptions are made for snowmobiles, service vehicles, and emergency vehicles.

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Sea Lions

Sea lions tend to be larger, but sleeker in appearance, than seals. They also can be distinguished from seals by their partial furred front flippers (seals' are entirely covered with fur) and the external flaps over their ear openings (seals have none.)

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Butterfly

"Once upon a time, I, Chuang Chou, dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was Chou. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man."

-- Chuang Chou(also transliterated as Zhuang Zi, Zhuang Zhou, Chuang Tzu, or Chuang Tse}, Chinese philosopher, about 4th century BCE.

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Parrot

"Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about."

--Saskya Pandita

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Snowy Owl

"He respects Owl, because you can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right."

-- A. A. Milne

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Faneuil Grasshopper

The grasshopper weather vane atop Faneuil Hall in Boston is the only part of the structure that has not been modified since 1742. (It was, however, repaired and replaced, following the 1755 earthquake.)

Illustration: Faneuil Grasshopper, by unknown photographer, public domain, per Wikipedia.org

Abraham Lincoln

"Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it."

-- Abraham Lincoln, Cooper Union Address, February 27, 1860

Photograph is by Mathew Brady, of Lincoln and George McClelland, at Antietam, October 3, 1862. It is now in the public domain.