"Let’s take our hearts for a walk in the woods and listen to the magic whispers of old trees."
~ Author Unknown
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Friday
Sunlight Through The Trees - Claytor Lake State Park
"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning."
~ J. B. Priestly
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Thursday
Claytor Lake Gazebo on a Frosty Morning
Where we love is home,
Home that our feet may leave,
but not our hearts.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
This image is available - HERE
Wednesday
Frosted Leaves
“It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.”
― Sarah Addison Allen
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Friday
Male Northern Cardinal As The Snow Falls
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
~ James Thurber
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Monday
Sunday
Watching The River
In my travels I found no answers, only wonders.
- Marty Rubin
The New River as seen through the trees at
Whitt-Riverbend Park in Ripplemead/Pearisburg, Virginia.
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Little Red Bird Blessings
"Concentrate on counting your blessings and you'll have little time to count anything else."
- Woodrow Kroll
This Art created from my original photograph
and is available - HERE
Tuesday
Wild Birds of Winter - White-throated Sparrow
"Never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved."
~ Barbara Johnson
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Friday
American Robin in the Snow
“Look at everything as though
you were seeing it either for the first
or last time.
Then your time on earth
will be filled with glory.”
- Betty Smith
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Male Cardinal - Ink Drawing
Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. Wednesday
Abstract Art - Butterfly Awakening
Painting is our way of communicating our thoughts; it may not always be understood by others, but we know what we mean.
- Marion Boddy-Evans
Abstract Watercolor and Ink
Butterfly Awakening depicts
a butterfly that has just awakened
from its winter slumber.
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Sunday
Male Bluebird Art
Birds are the most vivid expression of life
- epitaph Roger Tory Peterson chose for his tombstone
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Friday
Male Northern Cardinal - Cardinal Art
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
– Aristotle
This ART created from my original photograph.
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Thursday
Winter Squirrel Art - Squirrel Sweetness
"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."
-Robert Brault
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Monday
Wild Birds of Winter - Blue Jay in The Snow
"Winter came down to our home one night
Quietly pirouetting in on
silvery-toed slippers of snow,
And we, we were children once again."
Quietly pirouetting in on
silvery-toed slippers of snow,
And we, we were children once again."
~ Bill Morgan, Jr.
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Wednesday
Ocean Isle Beach - Sunrise at the Pier
"The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour."
- Henry David Thoreau
Prints, Mugs, Journals and More
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Tuesday
Bare Branches - Original Art
“A tree is our most intimate contact with nature.”
― George Nakashima
My original ink drawing - using one of my
photographs as a reference.
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Eastern Bluebird Male
"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
This Bluebird Print Available - HERE
Wednesday
Staunton Virginia Historic District - Black and White Art
My artistic rendering of Staunton, Virginia Historic District.
Created from my original photograph.
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Thursday
Autumn at the Izaak Walton Park in Christiansburg Virginia
Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.
- Stanley Horowitz
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Monday
Sunday
Steps To The Beach - Ocean Isle Beach North Carolina
“I followed my heart, and it led me to the beach.”
~ Unknown
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This image captured at Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina
about a week after Hurricane Florence - September 2018.
Winter Landscape - Hungry Mother State Park
"One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;
And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces rough in the distant glitter
Of the January sun; and not to think
Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
In the sound of a few leaves."
- Wallace Stevens, The Snow Man, 1923
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Thursday
Robin in the Berries
Nature gets into our souls and opens doors to hidden parts of ourselves.
- Pamela Heyda
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Friday
Bubble Gum Delight - Circles of Possibilities
"Unleash your creative energy and let it flow.
Relish the possibilities."
Nita Leland
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Thursday
Pipestem State Park - Autumn Overlook
"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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Tufted Titmouse Sings
"If everyone started off
the day singing,
just think how happy they'd be".
― Lauren Myracle
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Wednesday
Wild Birds of Autumn - Female Northern Cardinal
“When you feel discontented, think over your blessings, and be grateful.”
―
Monday
Hungry Mother State Park - Lake Reflections
“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
- Henry James
The Lake and Boat Landing at Hungry Mother State Park
Marion, Virginia
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Red Bird in the Pines
". . . All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness
is a simple, frugal heart."
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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Thursday
Great Blue Heron Close Up
“Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.”
― Sean O'Casey
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Wednesday
Sunset Beach Town Park
“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”
― John Lubbock
During our visit to North Carolina we found the lovely
Sunset Beach Town Park
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Monday
Sunrise Over The Ocean - Ocean Isle Beach North Carolina
“Time is a gift.
Something to be treasured
and never taken for granted.”
― Lauren Hammond
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Wednesday
Backyard Birding - Cedar Waxwing
"Change is a measure of time and, in the autumn,
time seems speeded up. What was is not and never
again will be; what is is change."
- Edwin Teale
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Sunday
The Lake at Hungry Mother State Park - Marion Virginia
“Rise free from care before the dawn and seek new adventures.
Let noon find you at other lakes,
And night find you everywhere at home...
Grow wild according to thy nature.”
― Henry David Thoreau
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Thursday
Cape Lookout Lighthouse - Cape Lookout North Carolina
“If you feel happy, smile with all your heart.
If you're down, smile with all your might.”
― Paul Ian Guillermo
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Wednesday
Splatter Art - Florence
“Keep creating new chapters in your personal book and never stop re-inventing and perfecting yourself. Try new things...... Never stop refining and re-defining yourself. Transformations are an integral part of life."
― Suzy Kassem
Print Available - HERE
This image was created from
my original ink drawing
and digitally edited.
Rainbow at Hungry Mother State Park in Marion Virginia
“Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow.”
~ Douglas Pagels
From our visit to Hungry Mother State Park over
Labor Day Weekend 2018
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Thursday
Monarch Butterfly Egg Laying
“Enchantment lies in everyday moments
if you are observant.”
― Amy Leigh Mercree
Pileated Woodpecker
"What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare? —
No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep or cows.
No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.
No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night.
No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance.
No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began.
A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.”
― William Henry Davies
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Saturday
Country Views - Cows in the Pasture
Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.
~ Richard Feynman
Explore the backroads, and the byways,
the farmland and countryside.
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Wednesday
Droplets On The Stem
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"Around us, life bursts with miracles--a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops. If you live in awareness, it is easy to see miracles everywhere. Each human being is a multiplicity of miracles. Eyes that see thousands of colors, shapes, and forms; ears that hear a bee flying or a thunderclap; a brain that ponders a speck of dust as easily as the entire cosmos; a heart that beats in rhythm with the heartbeat of all beings. When we are tired and feel discouraged by life's daily struggles, we may not notice these miracles, but they are always there."
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Sunday
Jekyll Island - Early Morning at Driftwood Beach
“There's something about a place you've been with someone you love. It takes on a meaning in your mind. It becomes more than a place. It becomes a distillation of what you felt for each other. The moments you spend in a place with someone... they become part of its bricks and mortar. Part of its soul.”
― Cassandra Clare
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Monday
Blue Ridge Mountain Views - Summer on the Parkway
Blue Ridge Mountain Views - this is an image I captured at the Rocky Knob Overlook.
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