Golden-crowned Kinglet Takes Flight

Respond to every call that excites your spirit.

 — Rumi

White-breasted Nuthatch in the Forest

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

 ― John Burroughs


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Founders Park - Alexandria Virginia

“Parks and playgrounds are the soul of a city.” 

 ― Marty Rubin 

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 Founders Park is a peaceful riverside park in Old Town, Alexandria, Virginia. It is near the shops and restaurants of King Street, the Alexandria Marina and the Torpedo Factory

Capital Wheel Reflections

No two visions are alike. Those who reach the heights have all toiled up the steep mountains by a different route. To each has been revealed a different panorama. 

- Albert Pinkham Ryder

  This is the Capital Wheel.  As you can tell, it was a very calm morning on the water when I took this.   

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Inner Harbor Reflections - Baltimore Maryland

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The Capital Wheel at National Harbor

The Capital Wheel at National Harbor.


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Capital Wheel - HERE 

A Quote About Christmas

"Let me not wrap, stack, box, bag, tie, tag, bundle, seal, keep Christmas. 

 Christmas kept is liable to mold. 

 Let me give Christmas away, unwrapped, by exuberant armfuls. 

Let me share, dance, live Christmas unpretentiously, merrily, 

responsibly with overflowing hands, tireless steps and sparkling eyes. 

 Christmas given away will stay fresh—even until it comes again."

- Linda Felver


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Abstract Cardinal In The Snow

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The Blushing Farewell

I walked alone in the depths of Autumn woods; 

The ruthless winds had left the maple bare; 

The fern was withered, and the sweetbrier's breath 

No longer gave its fragrance to the air. 

~ Albert Laighton

Mushroom Art - Shaggy Ink Cap Mushroom

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” 

 ― Marcel Proust

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Autumn Squirrel

It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something. 

 ~ Charles Dickens

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Cedar Waxwing - Poetry Surrounds Us

"We are surrounded by poetry on all sides..." 

 ― Vincent van Gogh

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Peanut Thief

Whatever we are waiting for – peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance – it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

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Blue Jay - Peanut Lover

“We live far happier lives when we are generous in as many ways as possible.” 

― Cathy Burnham Martin

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White-crowned Sparrow in the Snow

"The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable." 

– Storm Jameson

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Be Grateful

Be grateful for the kindly friends 

that walk along your way; 

 Be grateful for the skies of blue 

that smile from day to day; 

 Be grateful for the health you own, 

the work you find to do, 

 For round about you there are men less fortunate than you. 

 Be grateful for the growing trees, 

the roses soon to bloom, 

 The tenderness of kindly hearts 

that shared your days of gloom; 

 Be grateful for the morning dew, 

the grass beneath your feet, 

The soft caresses of your babes and all their laughter sweet. 

Acquire the grateful habit, 

learn to see how blest you are, 

How much there is to gladden life, 

how little life to mar! 

And what if rain shall fall today 

and you with grief are sad; 

Be grateful that you can recall the joys that you have had.

- Edgar Guest



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Blue Jay In The Pines

 Fill a space in a beautiful way. 

- Georgia O'Keeffe

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White-crowned Sparrow on a Branch

“Kindness can transform 

someone's dark moment with a blaze of light. 

You'll never know how much your caring matters. Make a difference for another today.” 

― Amy Leigh Mercree

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Dancing Under The Moon

To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.
 ― Osho

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May Peace Be Your Gift

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Be Kind

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Cedar Waxwing In The Berries

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

~ Wayne Dyer

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Monarch Butterfly - Beautiful Moments

Beautiful moments spent with a Monarch Butterfly

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Sit Still And Watch Them

Frosty maple leaves on an autumn morning.

Even if something is left undone, everyone must take time to sit still and watch the leaves turn. 

- Elizabeth Lawrence

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The Heart of Autumn

"Come said the wind to the leaves one day, 

 Come o're the meadows and we will play. 

 Put on your dresses scarlet and gold, 

 For summer is gone and the days grow cold." - 

 A Children's Song of the 1880's

I think the leaves growing side by side (in the middle) look like a heart :) 

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Save Face Barn

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It used to be that we would see Mail Pouch Barns advertising chewing tobacco or "spit tobacco" - Now we see these barns cropping up that say "Save Face" - and on the other side it says "stop spit tobacco."

Claytor Lake State Park - Gazebo in Black and White

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. 

 — Marcus Aurelius

Morning at Claytor Lake State Park

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Frosty Leaves

“I think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief (it seems) they can let go and go deep into their roots for renewal and sleep.... Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long....

- May Sarton

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The Lady in the Dogwood

Deep rivers run quiet.

 ― Haruki Murakami

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A Newport Autumn

"Life starts all over again 

when it gets crisp in the fall."

 – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Along an Autumn Road in Newport, Virginia

Giles County, Virginia

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Quote Art - Letting Go

"By letting go it all gets done."

~ Lao Tzu

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Covered Bridge in Autumn

Autumn brings the landscape to life.

~ Kerri Farley

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White-throated Sparrow - Watercolor Art

Colors speak all languages. 

- Joseph Addison

This art created from my original photograph

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Male Cardinal - Handsome Fella

“I want to be as idle as I can, 

so that my soul may have time to grow.” 

 ― Elizabeth von Arnim

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Robin in the Dogwood

The days may not be so bright and balmy—yet the quiet and melancholy that linger around them is fraught with glory. Over everything connected with autumn there lingers some golden spell—some unseen influence that penetrates the soul with its mysterious power. 

~ Northern Advocate

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Frosted Autumn Leaves

 “The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.” 

— Henry Beston 

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Patterns at the Pond

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things. 

 ― William Wordsworth

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Autumn Leaves in the Water

“A fallen leaf is nothing more 

than a summer’s wave goodbye." 

- Author Unknown    

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Cedar Waxwing in Autumn Leaves

Every object, every being, is a jar full of delight.

 ~ Rumi

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Cardinal in the Berries

No spring nor summer’s beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one Autumnal face.... 

~ John Donne

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Bridges and Trees Along The New River

Autumn Along the New River in Pembroke.

There are actually TWO bridges in this shot.

The 2nd "older" bridge

is on the other side of this newer bridge.

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Autumn Lady

Autumn is the eternal corrective. It is ripeness and color and a time of maturity; but it is also breadth, and depth, and distance. What man can stand with autumn on a hilltop and fail to see the span of his world and the meaning of the rolling hills that reach to the far horizon. 

- Hal Borland

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The New River Bridge at Pembroke

The New River Bridge at Pembroke is unusual in its combination of various truss types and engineering details, many of which are unique in the area and survive only rarely statewide. Built in 1915-1916 by the Virginia Bridge and Iron Company of Roanoke, Virginia, it combines seven spans, six of which are carried by metal trusses of four different varieties. The bridge demonstrates the persistence of at least three early technological solutions generally abandoned by the turn of the century: nonriveted field constructions, the use of all pin connections (on the three main spans), and the incorporation of hand-forged welds and wrought iron for various structural members. Within the state, it contains the greatest number and variety of truss types for a given automotive crossing. Additionally, Virginia's longest Pennsylvania Petit through truss is found here, being the last of three bridges of this type to survive. Two other rare statewide features are metal column piers and a Pratt deck truss, the last of two to survive. The New River Bridge is nestled against Castle Rock, one of the most scenic natural formations in the region. The juxtaposition of technological and natural landmarks makes for a unique site. 

 Source: Library of Congress

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An Autumn Hummingbird

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

- Aristotle

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Carolina Wren Sings an Autumn Song

Sing a song of seasons! 

Something bright in all, 

Flowers in the summer 

Fires in the fall!

- Robert Louis Stevenson, Autumn Fires

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Autumn at Castle Rock - Pembroke Virginia

Every mountain top is within reach 

 if you just keep climbing. 

- Barry Finlay

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Autumn Arrives At the Duck Pond

“Fall ......The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.” 

 ― Lauren DeStefano

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Every Leaf A Flower

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

- Albert Camus

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Flight Between The Flowers

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.

 ― E.B. White

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Sparrow with Autumn Bokeh

 “The love, kindnesses, and value we have given authentically to others will be our remaining treasures at the end of life.” 

– Steve Brunkhorst 

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