Mockingbird Pair

Kindness wields a sword of light against the darkness.

 ― Richelle E. Goodrich

With Love

What is done in love, is done well.

 ― Vincent van Gogh

I sure to LOVE these little guys!  Can't wait to see some this spring/summer! 

Colors of a Starling

I have always wanted my colors to sing. 

-  Paul Delvaux

Song Sparrow Sweetness

In order to see birds it is necessary to become part of the silence. 

- Robert Lynd

Sweet little birds that are abundant in my area - and they sing such a pretty song.

A link to the music he makes is - HERE 

Kind Words

Kind words produce their own image in men’s souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used. 

~ Blaise Pascal

Painted Lady Butterfly

Begin today. Declare out loud to the universe that you are willing to let go of struggle and eager to learn through joy.

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

Prints/Posters/Cards and much more Available - 
HERE 

Mandarin Duck Reflection

Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Available - HERE

Travel Light

This is today! What will tomorrow bring? Life arrives and departs on its own schedule, not ours; it's time to travel light, and be ready to go wherever it takes us.

 ― Meg Wolfe

A Wing Thing

I really have a "thing" for wings!

If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. 

- Charles Lindbergh     

Egret at Blackwater NWR

Taken during a visit to 

Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

 ― Wallace Stevens

Prints Available: HERE 

Every Single Time ......

Every single time you help somebody stand up you are helping humanity rise. 

 ― Steve Maraboli

Print Available - HERE 

Anxiously Awaiting

Hummingbird Moth  

I am awaiting 

perpetually and forever 

a renaissance of wonder.

 — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Available for purchase - HERE 

Beauty and Wonder

The world we live in is a fairyland of exquisite beauty, our very existence is a miracle in itself, and yet few of us enjoy as we might, and none as yet appreciate fully, the beauties and wonders which surround us. 

- John Lubbock

Feeder Fight

It wasn't a fight really - just a little disagreement.

Four White-crowned Sparrows at the feeder.

The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love. 

Thomas Carlyle

 

Snow Birds Galore

Song Sparrow

         White-throated Sparrow                              Male Northern Cardinal         Carolina Wren

Mourning Dove

Snow was falling, so much like stars 

filling the dark trees 

that one could easily imagine

 its reason for being 

was nothing more than prettiness.

 ― Mary Oliver

More of my Birds in the Snow - HERE 

Snow Covered Dove

Never overlook the good in a bad situation. 

- Zig Ziglar

Snowy Days

Female Red-bellied Woodpecker in the snow

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day. 

 - Edith Wharton

To me....the BEST thing about snow - is trying to photograph the birds in it!

Print Available - HERE 

The Preaching of Pine Trees

Few are altogether deaf 
to the preaching of pine trees. 

Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts; and if people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.

~ John Muir

Prints and More Available  - HERE  


 

Tree Hugging

A hug is worth a thousand words. 

 ~ Author Unknown

Available for Purchase - HERE 

During our visit to Claytor Lake State Park I saw these trees....and thought they looked like they were hugging each other....do you see it?

Out for a Walk

Hiking Trail - Claytor Lake State Park

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world. 

 ~ Paul Dudley White

 Nature truly is the best medicine!!

Indigo Bunting Blues

Jumping for joy is good exercise. 

 ~ Unknown

Male Indigo Bunting seen during a summer walk. 

Exhale Only Love

Exhale Only Love 

 ~Rumi


Print Available - HERE 

American Goldfinch Friends

Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. 

 ~ Unknown

Two guys and a girl..... that is - two male goldfinch and a female - hanging out on the finch sock.  They have their "summer colors" on - as this was taken in May.

I LOVE to catch the birds hanging out together :) 

More of my Goldfinch Images - HERE 
 

Red-Winged Blackbird

But youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

 - Oscar Wilde

Male Red-winged Blackbird.  Perhaps a youngster?

Quite a different look than the female - which you can see 

HERE

Otter Snuggles

During a visit to the 

Western North Carolina Nature Center  

One of the highlights was seeing the River Otters.

They always make me smile :) 

If you don't start out the day with a smile, it's not too late to start practicing for tomorrow. 

~  Unknown

Soothing

The very winds whispered in soothing accents, 

and maternal Nature bade me weep no more. 

~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

 

I found a tiny waterfall (flowing under ice) that I made a video of

 

Standing on the Lichen

White-crowned sparrow on lichen covered branch 

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. 

Nothing is that important. 

– Natalie Goldberg

and stress sometimes keeps you from doing what IS important!

More of my Bird Images - HERE