Tufted Titmouse

"Joy is the best makeup." 

~ Anne Lamott

Bluebird Beauty

"The bluebird carries the sky on his back."

- Henry David Thoreau

More of my Bluebirds - HERE

Belted Kingfisher at Claytor Lake State Park

"Chase your dreams until you catch them...

and then dream, catch, and dream again!" 

~ Dee Marie

Print Available - HERE 

I have tried for more than 10 years to get a decent shot of a Belted Kingfisher. This one isn't great - but it is the best I've ever gotten and I must say I am thrilled to have captured it. This was taken during our visit to Claytor Lake State Park for our 2019 Christmas Celebration.

Great Blue Heron at Claytor Lake State Park

Print Available - HERE 

"Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself 

so that you can hear it in others." 

- Marian Wright Edelman

Dark-eyed Junco - Winter Birds

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things. 

 ― William Wordsworth

Print Available - HERE 

Carolina Chickadee in Spring Green

"The spring is fresh and fearless 

And every leaf is new, 

The world is brimmed with moonlight, 

The lilac brimmed with dew. 

 Here in the moving shadows 

I catch my breath and sing -- 

My heart is fresh and fearless 

And over-brimmed with spring."

 - Sara Teasdale

This Print Available - HERE

Downy Woodpecker In The Forest

Every object, every being, is a jar full of delight.

 ~ Rumi

Print Available - HERE 

Live In The Sunshine

   Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, 

drink the wild air.

― Ralph Waldo Emerson


Print Available - HERE 

Amazing Feathers

 It's amazing what you can see when you just sit quietly and look.

― Jacqueline Kelly

The feathers of the Grackle simply amaze me!

Feathers of the Kinglet

Take a walk outside - it will serve you far more than pacing around in your mind.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

In a previous post I showed you the  

face of the Golden-crowned Kinglet

Mockingbird Watches Me

 Keeping his eye on me!

I wonder why it is we are not all kinder than we are! How much the world needs it. How easily it is done. How instantaneously it acts. How infallibly it is remembered. How superabundantly it pays itself back --for there is no debtor in the world so honourable, so superbly honourable as Love.

~Henry Drummond

 

Woven Around the Heart of Wonder

May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder. 

~ John O'Donohue

A Bit of Nutty Fun

White-breasted Nuthatch - Bisset Park - Radford, Virginia 

Is a smile a question? 

Or is it the answer? 

~ Lee Smith

Begin and Be Bold

Carolina Chickadee in the berries

Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.

~ Horace

More of my Chickadee Images - HERE 

Yellow-rumped Warbler Series

What a SWEET Face! 

Surrounded by Berries 

You can see why it's called a Yellow-rumped Warbler

A Lucky Flight Shot!

Live your life as a curious student and you will discover how fascinating it is.

 ― Elena Ornig

Cedar Waxwings

 I think their feathers are Amazing!

Alone you can go faster, but together we can go further.

~ African Proverb

Cedar Waxwings in my backyard 

Print Available - HERE 

Don't Be Afraid

Oh, How I Want to LIVE this quote!

~ Red-bellied Woodpecker
 (same one from my last post)  
dives down to pick up another acorn ~ 

Prints Available - HERE 

At Home In the Forest

Red-bellied Woodpecker in the Forest along Deerfield Trail

Blacksburg, Virginia       

You ask why I make my home in the mountain forest, 

and I smile, and am silent, 

and even my soul remains quiet: 

it lives in the other world which no one owns. 

The peach trees blossom, The water flows. 

 ~ Li Po

You Can Go Far

It doesn’t matter where you are, you are nowhere compared to where you can go.

-Bob Proctor

Male Cardinal

The simplicity of winter has a deep moral. The return of Nature, after such a career of splendor and prodigality, to habits so simple and austere, is not lost either upon the head or the heart. It is the philosopher coming back from the banquet and the wine to a cup of water and a crust of bread. 

~John Burroughs, "The Snow-Walkers,"

This print is available - HERE