Best Seat In the Park - Fairy Stone State Park

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

 - Elizabeth Lawrence 

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 In my opinion, the best seat in the park - 

at Fairy Stone State Park in Stuart Virginia. 

This was captured during a visit October 22, 2021

Sunset Along Prices Fork Road in Blacksburg Virginia

“The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”

― Paulo Coelho

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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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Sit and Watch The Leaves Turn

Everyone must take time 

to sit and watch the leaves turn. 

- Elizabeth Lawrence

Autumn at Pandapas Pond in Blacksburg, Virginia

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Enjoy Every Second

I'm going to enjoy every second, and I'm going to know I'm enjoying it while I'm enjoying it. Most people don't live; they just race. They are trying to reach some goal far away on the horizon, and in the heat of the going they get so breathless and panting that they lose sight of the beautiful, tranquil country they are passing through; and then the first thing they know, they are old and worn out, and it doesn't make any difference whether they've reached the goal or not.

- Jean Webster

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Patches of Color

Everything that you can see in the world around you presents itself to your eyes only as an arrangement of patches of different colors. 

 ~ John Ruskin

 Virginia Tech Duck Pond - Blacksburg, Virginia

 

Lake Tomahawk - Black Mountain North Carolina

Not every lake dreams to be an ocean. Blessed are the ones who are happy with whom they are.

~  Mehmet Murat ildan

During our visit to Black Mountain, NC we stopped by  Lake Tomahawk.  This is an iPhone shot taken during our walk around the lake. 

A Quiet Place

“Never underestimate wisdom in silence....."

 ― Anthony Liccione

The Joy of Just Being

In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about 
the joy of just Being.

~ Eckhart Tolle

Bellepoint Park- Hinton, WV

Available at Fine Art America - HERE 

A Crescent Moon Morning

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Meditate. Live purely. Quiet the mind. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.

 ~ Buddha

  Claytor Lake State Park - Dublin, Virginia

Pay Attention - Stay Eager

Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.

 ~ Susan Sontag

Turning Over a New Leaf

The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.

 ― Arnold Bennett

A Glorious Autumnal Day

 Sun and Clouds

Clouds and Sun

 No Moment Wasted

 Deliciously Spent

Drinking In the Beauty

  Deerfield Trail - Blacksburg Virginia

Iphone image - edited with Snapseed and Instragram Filter 

To Mingle with the Universe

   There is pleasure in the pathless woods, 

There is a rapture on the lonely shore, 

There is society, where none intrudes,

By the deep sea, and music in its roar: 

I love not man the less, but Nature more, 

From these our interviews, in which I steal 

From all I may be, or have been before, 

To mingle with the Universe, and feel 

What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal. 

~ LORD BYRON

Mingling with the Universe ..... that sums up how I feel when I am out walking in nature!

Spring Green

~ Spring arrived and all was right with the world ~

More of my Spring Images - HERE 

A Place to Watch the Sun Set

One of the most satisfying experiences I know is fully to appreciate an individual 
in the same way I appreciate a sunset. 
When I look at a sunset...I don't find myself saying, 'Soften the orange a litle more on the right hand corner, and put a bit more purple along the base, and use a little more pink in the cloud color...
 I don't try to control a sunset. 
I watch it with awe as it unfolds.

Carl R. Rogers

My wish for today and everyday -

Allow me to appreciate each individual for who they are - and watch with awe as they "unfold".

The Glory of the Journey

The Overlook at Pipestem State Park 
Pipestem, West Virginia

The Road Ahead

About the Images: Photographing "every day" life - with the Instagram App for the iPhone. (these are both iPhone pics.) Some come out pretty cool.   "The Road Ahead" was taken thru a dirty windshield at about 55mph - but I still like it :)

We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.

~John Franklin

Recognize Your Path

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.

~ Jerry Gillies

Happiness Is To Be Found Along the Way

Happiness is to be found along the way, not at the end of the road, for then the journey is over and it is too late. Today, this hour, this minute is the day, the hour, the minute for each of us to sense the fact that life is good, with all of its trials and troubles, and perhaps more interesting because of them.

- Robert R. Updegraff

Benches are one of my favorite subjects. To some, an empty bench looks lonely - but to me - an empty bench looks inviting - just the spot for a short rest along my journey, and the perfect place to stop and breathe deeply of nature.

Artsy Print - HERE 

Rest in Winter

 

Sometimes the most urgent thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest. 

~ Ashleigh Brilliant

A Place To Rest

Everything needs a break.

- Toba Beta