White-crowned Sparrow in the Snow

"The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable." 

– Storm Jameson

Print Available - HERE 

Snow Birds

Male Cardinal has a snow beak.

Flurries Fall on a Male Red-bellied Woodpecker 

It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it. 

- John Burroughs



More Winter Birds - HERE 

Snow on a Robin

Snow was falling, 

so much like stars 

filling the dark trees 

that one could easily imagine 

its reason for being 

was nothing more than prettiness.

 ― Mary Oliver

snow art

Snow Birds Galore

Song Sparrow

         White-throated Sparrow                              Male Northern Cardinal         Carolina Wren

Mourning Dove

Snow was falling, so much like stars 

filling the dark trees 

that one could easily imagine

 its reason for being 

was nothing more than prettiness.

 ― Mary Oliver

More of my Birds in the Snow - HERE 

Sharing With Others

Mr and Mrs House Finch in the snow ....you can barely see her but she is there :) 

What is most important is to find peace and to share it with others. To have peace, you can begin by walking peacefully. Everything depends on your steps. 

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

More of my House Finch Images - HERE 

Hanging Out With Friends

Carolina Wren and Female Red-bellied Woodpecker 

share the feeder

A friend accepts us as we are 

yet helps us to be what we should. 

 ~ Unknown

Print Available - HERE 

In The Tree With A Treat

Tufted Titmouse in the backyard tree with a nut in his beak

.....only in the winter, in the country, 
can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself. 

~ Ruth Stout

Snowing On a Cardinal

Even in the familiar there can be surprise and wonder.

~ Tierney Gearon

Snow Birds and Snow Blossoms

Downy and Red-bellied Woodpecker Sharing Nicely

Mrs Red looking pretty as the snow falls 

 

Snow on the Maple Blossoms

All of these were taken during one of our Spring Snows  

Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.

 ~ Doug Larson 

Fluffed

Life itself is the most wonderful fairytale of all. 

Hans Christian Andersen

Female Cardinal fluffed up for warmth 

An Artsy Version Available - HERE 

Let Us Begin

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

~ Mother Teresa

Thoughts of past regrets

Poison the time that is now

Remember

Today is a New Day

Snowing On A Blue Jay

We only have this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand...and melting like a snowflake.  Let us use it before it is too late. 
~ Marie Beynon Ray 

From head to tail - the entire Blue Jay - HERE 

and
More Winter Birds - HERE 

Sparrow In the Snow

Gentleness towards self and others makes life a little lighter.

~ Deborah Day

~

Sparrow in the snow

I know your feet are very cold

Little boots required

~

Snowflakes on a Tufted Titmouse

Simply being kind brings happiness every time ...

 ~ Ian Tucker

Mockingbird Has a Snow Beak

Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.

~ Walt Whitman

Print Available - HERE 

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Finding Happiness

Just Outside The Door

Birds Play In The Snow

~ 

A Winter of Imagination

Blue Jay on a snowy branch 

The color of springtime is in the flowers; the color of winter is in the imagination. 

 ~Terri Guillemets

Print Available - HERE 

Enchanted

Let yourself be enchanted in small ways.

~ Guy Kawasaki

White-throated sparrow - sheltered from a snowstorm 

Blue Jay in the Snow

Winter came down to our home one night 

Quietly pirouetting in on silvery-toed slippers of snow, 

And we, we were children once again. 

~Bill Morgan, Jr.

Another "Artsy" Version - HERE 

Snow Bird

  

A Dark-eyed Junco. 
I only see these guys in late fall/winter and see them much more when there is snow falling. Here is a link for more info and to hear their typical voice: 
Dark-eyed Junco from All About Birds

My favorite weather is bird-chirping weather. 
~ Terri Guillemets