The New River Trail - Draper Virginia

 "I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house." 

— Nathaniel Hawthorne 

October 28, 2023  along The New River Trail 

in the New River Trail State Park 

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Looking Up To The Tree Tops

"Only from the heart can you touch the sky."

~ Rumi

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Colorful Autumn at Claytor Lake State Park

"And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves..."  

~ Virginia Woolf

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An Autumn Forest - A Mosaic of Color

"Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, 

summer an oil painting 

and autumn a mosaic of them all." 

- Stanley Horowitz

Autumn Trees in Prices Park

Blacksburg, Virginia

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Autumn Trees in the Fog

"We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams." 

- Jeremy Irons

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Autumn Trees In the Fog - Panorama

 “I sit beside the fire and think 

 Of all that I have seen 

Of meadow flowers and butterflies 

In summers that have been 

Of yellow leaves and gossamer 

In autumns that there were  

With morning mist and silver sun 

And wind upon my hair.” 

— J.R.R. Tolkien

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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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Embraced By Autumn

What would life be if we had 

no courage to attempt anything? 

-Vincent van Gogh

My artistic rendering of trees along Deerfield Trail

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Autumn in Radford Virginia

Days are stringed instruments and every one strikes a different note. 

~ Kenneth Alfred Evelyn Alexander

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Looking Down The Road

People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.

- Ayn Rand

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Autumn Light

When there is silence, Give your voice. 

 When there is darkness, Shine your light. 

 When there is desperation, Offer hope. 

-Tim Fargo

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Pandapas Pond - Framed By Fall

“For as long as she could remember, she had thought that autumn air went well with books, that the two both somehow belonged with blankets, comfortable armchairs, 

and big cups of coffee or tea.” 

 ― Katarina Bivald

Autumn Air also goes well with a wonderful walk in the forest.

This image captured several years ago during

a walk around Pandapas Pond in Autumn

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Autumn Trees

“If a year was tucked inside of a clock, 

 then autumn would be the magic hour." 

 - Victoria Erickson

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Autumn in Virginia

You can't use up creativity. 

The more you use, the more you have. 

- Maya Angelou

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On A Journey

We are all on a journey. 

 ― Steve Maraboli


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Go To Nature

Claytor Lake State Park - Dublin, Virginia

  

To get inspiration, go to the nature; for silence, go to the nature; to question the meaning of life, go to the nature; to feel the existence, go to the nature; to protect your mind, to reach the truth, to think about the universe go to the nature!

 ― Mehmet Murat ildan

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Through The Forest

There's gold, and it's haunting and haunting; 

It's luring me on as of old; 

Yet it isn't the gold that I'm wanting so much as just finding the gold. 

It's the forests where silence has lease; 

It's the beauty that thrills me with wonder,

 It's the stillness that fills me with peace.

~ Robert W. Service

Driving thru a Forest in Amherst County, Virginia

Watch and Listen

The most uplifting music in the world is that of Mother Natures orchestra. Sit atop a hill or mountain, with a fabulous view and listen..... Hear the winds song, the birds chorus, and the far off sound of childrens laughter and song and the sounds of life that you can soundtrack to your own playlists.

~ Michelle Geaney

 

With Open Eyes and An Open Heart

Awareness is a choice, and sometimes it takes effort. But it’s never disappointing if we truly put some effort into it. The rewards for our effort already surround us all the time, but they’re awards that we miss constantly until we make the decision to open our eyes and our hearts to the beauty that’s always everywhere.

~  Tom Walsh

  Claytor Lake State Park - Dublin Virginia - with my iPhone

Robin with Wet Berries

For after all the best thing one can do when

it is raining, is to let it rain.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow