Soft Pink

Artistic Photography of Pink Tulips at the Hahn Horticulture Garden

I love spring anywhere, 

but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.

- Ruth Stout

Available - HERE 

Wings of Wonder

It is a happiness to wonder; 

-- it is a happiness to dream.

 ― Edgar Allan Poe

This image Available - HERE 

Pink Tulip Art - Soft Pink 1

 “The blooming spring is the smile 

of the ever-joyful nature.” 

― Debasish Mridha

Print Available - HERE 

Singing His Song!

If everyone started off the day singing, just think how happy they'd be.

 ― Lauren Myracle

Print Available - HERE 

Tell Me How Many Beads There Are...

...Tell me how many beads there are 

In a silver chain 

 Of evening rain, 

Unraveled from the tumbling main....

- Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Have you ever read this entire poem....it is lovely.

You can find it - HERE 

The image above is available - HERE 

Trying New Things

I am always doing things I can’t do — 

that’s how I get to do them. 

- Pablo Picasso

Developing some new (to me) art styles which I've been working at for months!

Hope you like the Squirrel :)

Available - HERE 

Trillium Wildflower Art

The greatest failure is the failure to try. 

- William Ward

This Trillium Wildflower Art is Available 

- HERE 

Soul Blossoms

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature. 

~ Gerard de Nerval

Available - HERE 

Ladybug Ladybug Ladybug

Little red bug, oh so cute, 

Here's a black spot 

for your suit... 

 ~ Susan M. Paprocki


Available - HERE 


 

Spring Mockingbird Art

 

One goes to Nature only for hints and half-truths. Her facts are crude until you have absorbed them or translated them. . . . It is not so much what we see as what the thing seen suggests. 

 - John Burroughs

Print Available  HERE 

Wildflower Wonderland

Purple Deadnettle

Weeds are flowers too, 
once you get to know them. 

 ~A.A. Milne

Prints Available - HERE 

The Little Things

You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you. 

 ― Andy Warhol

Prints and More are Available - HERE 

Spring Rendezvous

. . . to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life.

- John Burroughs 

This Digital Painting is available - HERE 

Tulips Everywhere - Wall Art

The sweetest sounds to mortals given 

Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven. 

~William Goldsmith Brown

This Art created from my original photograph

to Honor all Mothers.

Print Available - HERE 

New Beginnings

Wisdom begins in wonder. 

― Socrates

Maple Seed Pods 

Normally develop in Mid to Late April in my area.

Print available - HERE 

The Sentinel

Print Available - HERE 

Bird Art - Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

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

- John McLeod

Print Available - HERE 

On The Surface

There is a way that nature speaks,               

                                      that land speaks. 

 Most of the time we are simply                             

                            not patient enough, quiet enough

 to pay attention to the story.           

 ~ Linda Hogan

Available as a Print - HERE 

Precious Spring Beginnings

"Spring makes its own statement, so loud and clear that the gardener seems to be only one of the instruments, not the composer." 

 ~ Geoffrey B. Charlesworth

Print Available - HERE 

Up The Creek!

You do not need to know 

 precisely what is happening, 

or exactly where it is all going.

What you need is to 

 recognize the possibilities and challenges 

offered by the present moment, 

 and to embrace them with 

 courage, faith and hope. 

 — Thomas Merton

Oh What a Sky!

How clear, how lovely bright,

How beautiful to sight

Those beams of morning play;

How heaven laughs out with glee

Where, like a bird set free,

Up from the eastern sea

Soars the delightful day.

― A.E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad

Heritage Park - Blacksburg Virginia

Available as a Print - HERE 

Just Winging It!

 Male bluebird on a 'tip toe' takeoff!

Red-bellied Woodpecker spreads his wings.

Opportunity is a bird that never perches. 

~ Claude McDonald

What a Wonderful World

White-breasted Nuthatch 

I see trees of green, red roses, too, 

I see them bloom, for me and you 

And I think to myself

 What a wonderful world.

 Songwriters:  GEORGE DAVID WEISS, GEORGE DOUGLAS, BOB THIELE  

Print Available - HERE 

Meet In The Middle

When I took this shot 
I immediately thought of this Diamond Rio song:

I start walkin your way 

you start walkin mine 

we meet in the middle 

'neath that old Georgia pine 

We gain a lot of ground 

cuz we both give a little 

aint no road to long 

when we meet in the middle

(This is just the chorus)

Pileated Woodpecker

It's not necessary to go far and wide. I mean, you can really find exciting and inspiring things within your hometown. 

- Daryl Hannah

 I am not sure what Daryl Hannah was referring to 

in her quote - but I sure can find

a LOT of exciting things in my hometown...

I just have to step outside the door.

In the Snowstorm - Male Cardinal

Welcome the present moment 

as if you had invited it. 

Why? Because it is all we ever have. 

 ~ Pema Chodron

Print Available - HERE 

The Sounds of Spring

What signals the arrival of Spring?  

Is it a date on the calendar?  The temperature outside?  

The flowers that we see popping up?

It may be all of these - but it is also the Sounds We Hear.

I know that Spring has arrived when I hear the

arrival of the Red-winged Blackbirds 

This guy was FAR away but
I got a decent shot with my 500mm lens.  
Hurray for long lenses! 

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. 

~ Hal Borland

I am linking to an AWESOME video of a 
Red-winged Blackbird
You will hear what I mean - a very distinctive call
click -  HERE 

Just Another Blue

In order to see birds 

it is necessary to become 

a part of the silence.

 ― Robert Lynd

You can see the Watercolor version - HERE 

Spring Blues

Blue skies 
Smiling at me 

 Nothing but blue skies 

Do I see 

 Bluebirds 

Singing a song 

 Nothing but bluebirds 

All day long  

Irving Berlin, Blue Skies

Print Available - HERE 

Captivating Cardinal

It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, 

but not a frozen moment. 

- Andrew Wyeth

Available - HERE 

Walking On Water

Tricolored Heron ready for take off 

Print Available - HERE 

Wild Purple

Do you think amethysts can be the souls of good violets?

 ― L.M. Montgomery

Available as a Print, Pillow, or Card - HERE 

Tufted Titmouse Digital Painting

Sometimes the greatest thing to come out of all your hard work isn't what you get for it, but what you become for it. 

Steve Maraboli

Available - HERE