Thistle Visitor - Black Swallowtail Butterfly

 “Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered, as a matter of course, just one kind word to another person.” 

— Mr. Rogers

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New Every Morning - Blue Ridge Parkway Sunrise

 

"The Lord's unfailing love and mercy still continue 

Fresh as the morning, as sure as the sunrise." 

Lamentations 3:22-23 (GNT)

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Sharing the Coneflower - Butterfly and Bee

 "Be silly. Be honest. Be kind." 

 - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Flying to Purple

 “If I fret over tomorrow, 

I'll have little joy today.” 

― Lloyd Alexander

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At the Pond - Eastern Kingbird

 “Be the celebrators, celebrate! .....the flowers have bloomed, the birds are singing, the sun is there in the sky—celebrate it! You are breathing and you are alive and you have consciousness, celebrate it!” 

 ― Osho

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Fairytale Morning

 “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. 

Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.” 

― Roald Dahl

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Hiding in the Tall Grass - Male Cardinal

 Light tomorrow with today. 

 ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Blue-winged Teal Couple

 "No road is long with good company." 

~ Turkish Proverb

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The duck showing his blue wing - HERE 

Praying Mantis in the Flowers

 “How beautiful a day can be, 

when kindness touches it!” 

—George Elliston

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Magic in the Garden - Monarch Butterfly

 Every moment possesses its own kind of magic. 

 ― Autumn Doughton

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Jewelweed Embrace

 Instead of bracing yourself for the perils of the unknown, embrace the joy that is here, in your present moment. 

- Michelle Cruz-Rosado

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Summer Sunshine - Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly

 Exude happiness 

and you will feel it back a thousand times. 

 - Joan Lunden

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Similar But Different - Iris in the Garden

 “Happiness held is the seed; 

 Happiness shared is the flower.”

 – John Harrigan

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Sweet Sips of Summer - Hummingbird

 Choose being kind over being right, 

and you'll be right every time. 

—Richard Carlson

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Blue on Black - Swallowtail Butterfly

 We change the world a little each day 

 with our kindness. 

~ Tom Giaquinto

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Resting on a Water Lily - Dragonfly

“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.”

 - Seneca

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Marigold Merriment - Common Buckeye Butterfly

 “Do anything, but let it produce joy.” 

- Walt Whitman

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Summer Hay

 “Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.” 

 - Horace

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Red White and Blue in the Garden

                                        God Bless America - by Irving Berlin 

While the storm clouds gather far across the sea, 

 Let us swear allegiance to a land that's free. 

 Let us all be grateful for a land so fair, 

 As we raise our voices in a solemn prayer. 

 God bless America, land that I love 

 Stand beside her and guide her 

 Through the night with the light from above 

 

From the mountains to the prairies 

 To the oceans white with foam 

 God bless America, my home sweet home 

 God bless America, my home sweet home.

Resting Sunshine

 “Outside the open window 

 The morning air is all awash with angels.” 

 ― Richard Wilbur

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Summer Salutations - Pink Coneflower

 “I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days.” 

— Henry David Thoreau

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Great Blue Heron Beak Close-up

 “See the light in others, 

and treat them as if that is all you see.” 

– Dr. Wayne Dyer

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Claytor Lake Morning

 "Every day a million miracles begin at sunrise!"

  ~ Eric Jerome Dickey

Sunrise at Claytor Lake during our June 2024 vacation with family.

 It was a wonderful week! 

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