Dwarf Crested Iris

In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight

~ Rabindranath Tagore

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Practice Kindness

You can either practice being right or practice being kind.

~ Anne Lamott

Naturescape

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. 

~ Vernon Howard

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Enter The Extraordinary

A Quiet Place

“Never underestimate wisdom in silence....."

 ― Anthony Liccione

Do Not Hesitate

If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, 

don’t hesitate. 

Give in to it.

~ Mary Oliver

Male Cardinal at the Hahn Horticulture Garden, 

Blacksburg, Virginia

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One Eternal Lesson

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Cherish It

Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children.   

 ~ Theodore Roosevelt

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Heart of Blooming Quince

What a lovely place this world would be if only people would feel affection for everyone else, and all the ugliness of the human heart were to vanish - our envy of those better off than ourselves and our scorn for those worse off. 

~ Sayo Masuda

  WE can change things.

WE can love more.

WE can show more kindness

When I saw it I immediately thought it was shaped like a heart.

Do you see it? 

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Always Choose Kindness

I truly believe that choosing kindness is a great start to making our world a better place.

What if everyone chose kindness?  Can you imagine?

What a wonderful world it would be!

A Spring Day

~ Spread some Kindness Today ~

Woodpecker Head Twist

As I was watching this Red-bellied Woodpecker, he twisted his head trying to get at something (an insect or grub perhaps) beneath the tree bark.  This is the first time I had ever seen one turn his head around like this.  

Difficult things take a long time, impossible things a little longer. 

~André A. Jackson

What We Must Do

Pinks and Blues

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air. 

~ Georges Bernanos   

Seen on a visit to the Hahn Horticulture Garden.  

A Place Called Home

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.

~ Gary Snyder

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Experience Every Good Thing

This is my life. It is my one time to be me. 
I want to experience every good thing.

~ Maya Angelou 

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Trust the Magic of Beginnings

And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.

― Meister Eckhart

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Happiness .....For This Hour

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Whatever Gives Joy

~ Tree Swallow in Flight ~ 

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

~ Edna St. Vincent Millay 

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Constant Friends

In joy or sadness flowers are our constant friends.

~  Kakuzō Okakura

Listen To The Whisper

There are times when we stop, we sit still. 
We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

~ James Carroll

During a visit to the Hahn Horticulture Garden at Virginia Tech I found this little purple flower.

I don't know what it is called.... but for a moment .... I heard its whisper.

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Messenger of Love

For to the bee a flower is a fountain of life, 

And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love

~ Kahlil Gibran 

Every Day Is An Opportunity

Courage For What Comes

Snowing On a Cardinal

Even in the familiar there can be surprise and wonder.

~ Tierney Gearon

Make Today Such A Day

See The Beauty In Every Moment

Small Joys

Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.

~  Pearl S. Buck

Another "almost" flight shot.  Wish it had been clearer - but I'm not giving up!

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Use It Well

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Music of the Heart

 Gratitude is the music of the heart, when its chords are swept by the breeze of kindness.  

 ~ Author Unknown 

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The Treasure of Kindness

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

~ George Sand