Blue Butterfly - Balanced

So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Leaf in the Cradle

There will come a time, When you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

-Peter Nivio Zarlenga

This was taken October 2008.

Mockingbird Profile - Scatter Some Joy Today

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wishing you a day filled with Joyful Moments!!

Monarch Butterfly - Egg Laying - Ovipositing

Monarch Butterfly laying an egg - ovipositing - on the underside of a milkweed leaf.

Cropped closely - but I hope you can see the little egg it laid. It was quite thrilling to see this happening. Only when I got the image downloaded did I realize I captured the egg as well.

Taken Sunday 08-21-11 - Heritage Park - Blacksburg, VA

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

- Unknown

Catbird Calling

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said.

~Unknown

Carried By The Wind

I'm a Wild Seed Again, Let the Wind Carry Me

Joni Mitchell

Monarch Butterfly In Flight - A Simple Blessing

Life holds so many simple blessings, each day bringing its own individual wonder.

- John McLeod

Dragonfly - How We Look at Things

It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how things are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

~Carl Jung

Monarch Caterpillar - Look at those Legs!

At first I thought of caterpillar "feet" and then I saw this diagram of a caterpillar's anatomy - HERE - and I see that they are legs. The lighting isn't all that great in this pic - but I thought it was cool how he was holding on upside down.

Saturday - 08-20-11 - Izaak Walton Park - Christiansburg, VA

Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.

-Marian Wright Edelman

Ladybug - Kissed by the Morning Dew

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.

~Tecumseh

Image made - 08-20-11 - with the morning dew.

Izaak Walton Park - Christiansburg, VA

Friends - Thanks so much for stopping by! I appreciate you!!

Heron and the Long Neck Stretch

If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.

~Les Brown

Taken in June 2010 while vacationing at Pine Knoll Shores, NC

Buddy - Faithful Friend

I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive.

~Gilda Radner

My niece's dog - Buddy. Aptly named.

Hummingbird Moth And Summer Colors

What a beautiful, sunny morning. It makes you happy to be alive, doesn't it? We can't let the sun outshine us! We have to beam, too!

~Takayuki Ikkaku

Yes, it's another Hummingbird Moth. I have seen more this summer than ever before and I will miss them when they are gone. This week has felt a bit like Fall with cooler mornings and I've even heard the Geese flyover each morning and evening.

Water Lily

The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.

~John Muir

Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly - A Different Look

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

~Wayne Dyer

Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly looking right at me - from my walk 08-13-11

Deerfield Trail - Blacksburg, Virginia

Hummingbird Moth - Delightful Duo

Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy; they heed not our expectancy; But round some corner of the streets of life they of a sudden greet us with a smile.  
~ Gerald Massey

Monarch Caterpillar - Living Among the Leaves

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

~Seneca

A Mental Squint Required

When you are describing,

A shape, or sound, or tint;

Don't state the matter plainly,

But put it in a hint;

And learn to look at all things,

With a sort of mental squint.

~Lewis Carroll

Carolina Wren - Discovery

The essence of living is discovering. Indeed, it is the joy of discovery that makes life worth the effort. ~Vijay Krishna

Recognize Your Path

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.

~ Jerry Gillies

Damselfly - Lady Blue Eyes

Few people get weak eyes from looking on the bright side. ~Unknown

Wishing a Happy Day to you All!

My Sweet Mama

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face. 
~George Eliot

My sweet Mama. Not only is she beautiful on the outside - but most importantly - she is beautiful on the inside. 
(08-06-11 with my Iphone)

Blue Jay - Sweet Soul Shining Through

Those true eyes Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise The sweet soul shining through them. ~Owen Meredith

The Daisy and The 'Did

To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping. ~Chinese Proverb

Dragonfly - A Moment in Time

What the human eye observes causally and incuriously, the eye of the camera notes with relentless fidelity. -Berenice Abbott

Ladybug - Holding On

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. ~Edmund Hillary

Goose - Putting on the Brakes

Always remember to slow down in life; live, breathe, and learn; take a look around you whenever you have time and never forget everything and every person that has the least place within your heart. 
~Unknown