~ Having a little Fun with Color ~
Sunday
Saturday
Friday
Seeing The World With Wonder
May you see the world with wonder.
And may you imagine only good things.
On His Crown
Snowflakes gathered
a mix of
Rosy and White
Thursday
Wednesday
Tuesday
Never Stop Trying
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
~ Babe Ruth
After MANY Strike Outs - I got very very close to the "in flight" shot that I've been trying to capture.
Monday
Snow Birds and Snow Blossoms
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| Downy and Red-bellied Woodpecker Sharing Nicely |
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Mrs Red looking pretty as the snow falls
Snow on the Maple Blossoms
All of these were taken during one of our Spring Snows
Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.
~ Doug Larson
Sunday
Bee Fly on a Blossom
Spring is nature's way of saying, ‘Let's party'!
-Robin Williams
This is a bee fly drinking from a blossom (not sure what kind of blossom). When I first saw this little bee fly I thought it was a baby hummingbird moth. It is actually a bee mimic
More info on the bee fly - HERE
Rough-fruited Cinquefoil
~ Rough-fruited Cinquefoil ~
June Wildflower
The petals remind me of little hearts.
Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people.
Leave people better than you found them.
― Marvin J. Ashton
Saturday
Finding Joy
~ Marie Cornelio
And I would add to that - Joy is found in the Birds!
Friday
Standing Where I Am
~ Male Red-bellied Woodpecker Wing Flutter ~
Sometimes I need
only to stand
wherever I am
to be blessed.
~ Mary Oliver
Flying High
And I learned to wander. I learned what every dreaming child needs to know -- that no horizon is so far that you cannot get above it or beyond it.
~ Beryl Markham
Thursday
Time To Be
We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite.
Time to be.
~ Gladys Taber
Wednesday
Tuesday
A Dream Come True
Surrender to your dreams and let them launch your tomorrow.
~ Lisa Fantino
This little Wood Duck is A LIFER for me - seen 03-16-13.
I was VERY far away so I had to crop the image closely - not as sharp as I would have liked. Still - a dream come true!
Monday
Nourishment Of The Soul
Everybody is worthy of love, just as everybody is worthy of living.
Love is the nourishment of your soul.
~ Osho
Carolina Wren and his nourishment - dried meal worm.
I wasn't sure if they would like the "freeze dried" kind - but they do!!
Paint Bliss
Life in itself is an empty canvas; it becomes whatsoever you paint on it. You can paint misery, you can paint bliss. This freedom is your glory.
~ Osho
This image pretty much sums up BLISS to me
This is a Black Vulture in flight.
Sunday
Unfold Your Own Myth
Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
~ Rumi
The Original Image of this Red-spotted Purple Butterfly is - HERE
Linking with Macro Monday
Riches in Nature
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Saturday
Refreshing
May the blessing of God's soft rain be on you,
Falling gently on your head, refreshing your soul
With the sweetness of little flowers newly blooming.
May the strength of the winds of Heaven bless you,
Carrying the rain to wash your spirit clean
Sparkling after in the sunlight.
May the blessing of God's earth be on you,
And as you walk the roads,
May you always have a kind word
for those you meet.
Join The Dance
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
~ Alan Watts
Friday
Unfold and Expand
When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
~ Brenda Ueland
Thursday
All Will Be Well
Everything that has a beginning has an ending.
Make your peace with that and all will be well.
~Buddha
From emptiness, new life begins
seeds are scattered
blown onto fertile ground
to rise up again
the home of
A Monarch
~ Empty Milkweed Pods whose seeds will become new Milkweed -
which is the host plant of a the Monarch caterpillar/Butterfly ~
Wednesday
Bluebird of Happiness
Indeed, this bird seems incapable of uttering a harsh note, or of doing a spiteful, ill-tempered thing.
John Burroughs, The Bluebird, 1867
~ Heritage Park - Blacksburg, Virginia ~
Tuesday
Birds Play Keep Away
Tufted Titmouse plays Keep Away
with a White-breasted Nuthatch
We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything, than when we are at play.
~ Charles Schaefer
Inspired
Large or small, our actions forge our futures, hopefully inspiring others along the way.
~ Howard Schultz
Reena at Missing Moments inspired me by posting some awesome images made with DistressedFX. (iphone/ipad ap) That is what I used on the Vulture above.
Hope you have a wonderful and INSPIRED day!
Monday
View Along the Huckleberry Trail
View from Bridge along the Huckleberry Trail
More info on this Trail found - HERE
More info on this Trail found - HERE
When people first discover beauty, they tend to linger. Even if they don’t at first recognize it for what it is.
~ Sherwood Smith
Spring Blooms
Common Field Speedwell
A weed is but an unloved flower.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
This one was a hard one to ID - and I am not positive I have it right.
It grows close to the ground and is a TINY bloom.
Sunday
Viper's Bugloss: Blueweed
There is so much beauty in the world, but you must allow yourself to see it.
― Tom Giaquinto
My trusty Field Guide to Wildflowers tells me this flowers from June to October.
This image was taken in June. This is a Tall plant and grows from 1 to 2 1/2 feet tall.
Saturday
Immeasurable
The unknown is not measurable by the known. Time cannot measure the timeless, the eternal, that immensity which has no beginning and no end... when we try to measure something which is not measurable, we only get caught in words.
Friday
Nightshade
Before the beginning of years
There came to the making of man
Time, with a gift of tears;
Grief, with a glass that ran;
Pleasure, with pain for leaven;
Summer, with flowers that fell;
Remembrance, fallen from heaven,
And madness risen from hell;
Strength without hands to smite;
Love that endures for a breath;
Night, the shadow of light,
And Life, the shadow of death.
~Algernon Charles Swinburne
This is my first time reading anything by this author and I think I could probably read this poem for years and find something "revealing" in it each time I read it. Sometimes it's like that .... sometimes things just speak to me... is it ever that way with you?
The image is that of the Nightshade family of wildflowers. My Field Guide to Wildflowers tells me it's called by several names:
Thursday
Awakenings
Awake, thou wintry earth -
Fling off thy sadness!
Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth
Your ancient gladness!
~Thomas Blackburn
Southern Gaura Wildflower - Bee Blossom
The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.
~ B.B. King
I'm learning a lot pouring over my Field Guide to Wildflowers
I believe I've got this one figured out as Southern Gaura
also known as Southern Bee Blossom.
If I'm wrong - please let me know!
Wednesday
Poetry Within
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it
~ Gustave Flaubert
I like to hope that my images depict just a small part of the poetry of nature.
A slightly different version - HERE
A slightly different version - HERE
Tuesday
Bird Behavior
White-breasted Nuthatch letting the White-throated sparrow know that he is not very keen on sharing.
Monday
Red-bellied NOT Red-headed
― Thich Nhat Hanh
Even though he DOES have a Red head - this shot shows why he's called a Red-bellied Woodpecker.
More of my Woodpecker images - HERE
