Lake Reflections at Hungry Mother State Park

"The sky is the daily bread of the eyes." 

 ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reflections at Hungry Mother State Park

Marion, Virginia

Print Available - HERE 

Wildflower Jumble

Each moment of the year has its own beauty... 

a picture which was never before and shall never be seen again. 

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Available - HERE

Hopes and Invitations

This day is all that is good and fair. 

It is too dear,

 with its hopes and invitations, 

to waste a moment on yesterdays. 

 ― Ralph Waldo Emerson


Print Available - HERE 

Hummingbird On The Approach

The only person you are destined to become 
is the person you decide to be. 

 ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Available - HERE 

Caught Peeking!

This new day is too dear, 

with its hopes and invitations, 

to waste a moment on the yesterdays. 

 ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tree Swallow peeks out of his nest box. 

More of my Bird Images - HERE 

Make Your Dreams Come True

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

 ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

See the ARTSY Version - HERE 

Bluebird and Berry

 Love what is simple and beautiful. 

These are the essentials.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Limitless Potential

there is no planet, sun, or star could hold you if you but knew what you are.

~  Ralph Waldo Emerson

Artistic Version available - HERE 

Nature's Artwork in a Spider's Web

Everything in creation has its appointed 
painter or poet and remains in bondage 
like the princess in the fairy tale 
'til its appropriate liberator 
comes to set it free.  

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

(iPhone pic with Olloclip lens)

The Depth of Life

Preening Mama Mallard

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

More Ducks - HERE 

Dove In the Berries

For flowers that bloom about our feet;

For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet;

For song of bird, and hum of bee;

For all things fair we hear or see,

Father in heaven, we thank Thee!

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mockingbird Profile - Scatter Some Joy Today

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wishing you a day filled with Joyful Moments!!

Dipped in Diamonds

To the dull mind all nature is leaden. 
To the illumined mind 
the whole world burns and sparkles with light. 
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ladybug in the Leaves

  Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting. 
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A Visit from a Red-bellied Woodpecker

Write it on your heart that every day 
is the best day in the year.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

This Male Red-bellied Woodpecker is a frequent visitor.  
What a wonderful treat to look out the window and see this handsome fella!

More Woodpeckers - HERE 

Eastern Phoebe

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. 
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

More of my Bird Images - HERE 

The Miraculous in the Common

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Summer Blues

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. 

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Simplicity in the Grasses

 Photography is my creative outlet... and I try to find a quote or poem that goes

along with what I'm feeling about the shot.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~
even the grasses
they make the most
of what they have
we can learn a lot
from nature 
~