Pause, Reflect and Renew

 “Winter is a time to pause, reflect, and renew.” 

– Unknown

Red Bird in the Sun

 “For each new morning let there be flow of love. 

Let there be light of happiness in every direction.” 

– Amit Ray

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 This male cardinal was enjoying the sun on his face. 

Image captured on Easter Sunday, 04-17-22  

Blacksburg, Virginia along the Huckleberry Trail.

Portrait of a Red Bird

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. And kindness in giving creates love. 

– Lao Tzu 

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Male Cardinal - Spring Portrait

"Spring makes the world a happy place 

You see a smile on every face. 

Flowers come out and birds arrive, 

Oh, isn’t it grand to be alive?" 

- Author Unknown

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The Hopeful Cardinal

"Love awoke one winter's night

And wander'd through the snowbound land,

And calling to beasts and birds

Bid them his message understand.

And from the forest all wild things

That crept or flew obeyed love's call,

And learned from him the golden words

Of brotherhood for one and all."

- Author Unknown

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Male Cardinal in Spring Leaves

"Always be on the lookout 

for the presence of wonder." 

 ~ E.B White

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Male Cardinal - Make Haste To Be Kind

“Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.” 

― Henri Frederic Amiel

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Dressed in Red - Male Cardinal in the Snow

“But, instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,

life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.” 

― Marcel Proust

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Male Cardinal Takes Shelter From The Rain

“It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.” 

― Leo Buscaglia

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Male Cardinal

"The essence of life is not in the great victories and grand failures, but in the simple joys." 

~ Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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Male Cardinal Spreads His Wings

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"Always be on the lookout 

for the presence of wonder." 

― E.B. White

Male Cardinal In Flight

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"Enthusiasm moves the world." 

 - Arthur James Balfour

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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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

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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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Male Cardinal - In The Pink

There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must 

be very quiet to hear it. 

- Minnie Aumonier

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Male Cardinal and His Berry

"I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright." 

~ Henry David Thoreau

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Give Me Shelter - Male Cardinal Under the Maple Leaf

"Perhaps love is like a resting place, a shelter from the storm. It exists to give you comfort, it is there to keep you warm, and in those times of trouble when you are most alone, the memory of love will bring you home.” 

 ― John Denver

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Male Cardinal - Spring Beauty

 Not to waste the spring I threw down everything, 
And ran into the open world 
To sing what I could sing... 
To dance what I could dance! 
And join with everyone! 
I wandered with a reckless heart beneath the newborn sun. 
— Roman Payne 

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Male Cardinal in the Blossoms

"Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night."

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

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