In The Forest Series - Tree Bark Patterns

"The forests are the flags of nature. They appeal to all and awaken inspiring universal feelings. Enter the forest and the boundaries of nations are forgotten. It may be that some time an immortal pine will be the flag of a united peaceful world." 

- Enos A. Mills

Looking closely at the patterns in the Tree Bark.

Print Available - HERE 

Sunset in the Country

“Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.” 

 ― Elbert Hubbard

Print Available - HERE 

Trying New Things

I am always doing things I can’t do — 

that’s how I get to do them. 

- Pablo Picasso

Developing some new (to me) art styles which I've been working at for months!

Hope you like the Squirrel :)

Available - HERE 

On The Surface

There is a way that nature speaks,               

                                      that land speaks. 

 Most of the time we are simply                             

                            not patient enough, quiet enough

 to pay attention to the story.           

 ~ Linda Hogan

Available as a Print - HERE 

Virginia Farmland

One of the things you learn when you live on a farm is that change comes at you whether you´re ready for it or not. Every season is punctuated with its own smells and tastes and you find yourself looking forward, waiting for the next thing to come along so you can take a bite of it.

 — Yvonne Prinz

A Virginia Pumpkin Farm

Available - HERE 

Naturescape

“Those who find beauty in all of nature 

will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.” 

- L. Wolfe Gilbert

Print Available - HERE 

Delicate Awareness

Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness... 
meaning at-oneness, the state of being at one with the object. 

- D. H. Lawrence

Available - HERE 

This Is Our Job

Print Available - HERE 

"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy."

 ― Thomas Merton

This quote gives me goose bumps..... could you imagine the world if we all LOVED each other?

What a wonderful world it would be!

Egret at Blackwater NWR

Taken during a visit to 

Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

 ― Wallace Stevens

Prints Available: HERE 

Reaching for the Sky

One thing: you have to walk, and create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path. ...... the birds fly, but they don't leave any footprints. You cannot follow them; there are no footprints left behind. 

 — Osho

Prints and More Available - HERE 

The Best Time Is Now

The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now.

― Rick Warren

Available - HERE 

The Art of Contentment

Being content with what you have already is an art form that leads to a peace that can’t be replaced by anything else.

 ~ Elizabeth Gilbert 

~ Rain droplet from our Rhododendron bush ~ 

A Version of this image available - HERE

and it makes a Beautiful Pillow as well

Unfold Your Own Myth

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others.  Unfold your own myth.

~ Rumi

The Original Image of this Red-spotted Purple Butterfly is - HERE

Linking with Macro Monday

Worth Remembering

Make today worth remembering.

~ Zig Ziglar

Beauty and Grace

The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there. 

 ~ Annie Dillard

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)