Flight of the Long-tailed Skipper

 “In this world in which we live 

simplicity and kindness 

are the only magic wands that work wonders” 

― L. Frank Baum

The long-tailed skipper in flight - Summer of 2024

Artsy Version - HERE 

Enjoy Every Minute

 "I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live." 

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Cabbage White Butterfly in flight over the asters seen on

my walk through the Hahn Horticulture Garden on 

October 7, 2024. 

Print Available - HERE 

Flight to the Flowers - Monarch Butterfly

 “Just a little drop of kindness 

can water a whole garden.” 

― Heather Wolf

Print Available - HERE 

Pipevine Swallowtail Butterfly in Flight

 "Wouldn't it be an exhilarating tonic for the soul to take a moment to appreciate the simple, good things in life which are so bountiful...?"  

 ~ Author unknown

Print Available - HERE 

Just Passing Through - Silver Spotted Skipper

“Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.”

 ― Frances Hodgson Burnett

Print Available - HERE 

Follow Your Dreams - Butterfly in Flight

 "Today is the day to follow your dreams." 

― Teresa Collins 

 Print Available - HERE

A Free Spirit

I like to be a free spirit. 

 Some don't like that, 

 but that's the way I am.

 ― Diana Princess of Wales

Print Available - HERE 

Flight Between The Flowers

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.

 ― E.B. White

Available - HERE 

Great Spangled Fritillary Flyaway

“Every moment 

possesses its own kind of magic.” 

― Autumn Doughton

Print Available - HERE 

Defining Words - Journey

Journey

AVAILABLE - HERE 

On a Journey

The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs. 

 — Wally Lamb

This image Available - HERE 

Taste The Beauty Of The Wild

Go out, go out I beg of you 

 And taste the beauty of the wild. 

 Behold the miracle of the earth 

 With all the wonder of a child.

-  Edna Jaques

Print Available - HERE 

To Fly Toward A Secret Sky

This is love: 

to fly toward a secret sky, 

to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. 

First to let go of life. 

Finally, to take a step without feet.

 ― Rumi

5 Thoughts On Happiness

1.  For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. 

 ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

2.  People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

― Abraham Lincoln

3. Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

 - Daphne du Maurier

4.  The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.” 

 -  J.M. Barrie

5.  . . . All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.

 — Nikos Kazantzakis

Really - it's all about our attitudes, isn't it?  We need to make the choice to be happy - and then BE! 

Create Your Own Music

Find what makes your heart sing and create your own music. 

~ Mac Anderson

 

"Sing to the Lord a new song; 

 sing to the Lord, all the earth." 

 Psalm 96:1

Always Dancing

There was something in her movements that made you think she never walked but always danced.

 ― L.M. Montgomery

Common Buckeye Butterfly leaves the wildflower .... on to the next.

 

Joy and Kindness

Spread Joy

Scatter Kindness

Brighten the World with your Smile

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Let Go and Float

 Today I know that I cannot control the ocean tides.  I can only go with the flow.... When I struggle and try to organize the Atlantic to my specifications, I sink.  If I flail and thrash and growl and grumble, I go under.  But, if I let go and float, I am borne aloft.

- Marie Stilkind

See more of my Butterflies in Flight - HERE 

   

Finding The Way

Sit still my heart, do not raise your dust. 
 Let the world find its way to you.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

Butterfly Moments

There is so little time. We need to make every moment count.

 ― Shannon Delany

Available - HERE