Monarch Butterfly - Enduring Wings

There were different kinds of strength. I knew that now. It didn't always come from a knife or a willingness to fight. Sometimes it came from endurance, where the well ran deep and quiet. Sometimes it came from compassion and forgiveness.

 ~ Ann Aguirre

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Cherish It

Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children.   

 ~ Theodore Roosevelt

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Touch us Gently

TOUCH us gently, Time!

 Let us glide adown thy stream 

 Gently,—as we sometimes glide 

Through a quiet dream. 

Humble voyagers are We, 

Husband, wife, and children three—

 (One is lost,—an angel, fled 

 To the azure overhead.)

Touch us gently, Time!

 We ’ve not proud nor soaring wings: 

 Our ambition, our content, 

 Lies in simple things. 

Humble voyagers are We, 

 O’er Life’s dim, unsounded sea, 

Seeking only some calm clime;— 

Touch us gently, gentle Time!

 ~ Barry Cornwall

About the image:  A winter wildflower 

About the poem:  Barry Cornwall is the pseudonym for Bryan Procter an English poet.

This is my first exposure to his poems and this one has captured my heart.  

Embracing The Simple Things

 Sometimes, the simple things are more fun and meaningful than all the banquets in the world ...

  ~ E.A. Bucchianeri

Small Steps

The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning. 

~ Oprah Winfrey

Follow Your Heart

Your heart is free, have the courage to follow it.

~ Braveheart


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Heart Of Gold

Sometimes the heart sees 
what is invisible to the eye.  

~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

 And again - I'm seeing HEARTS everywhere .... do you see the little heart in the "heart" of the wildflower?  I am ALWAYS amazed by the Beauty produced by Nature.

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Be What You Are

Be what you are.  This is the first step toward becoming better than you are. 

~Julius Charles Hare

Let Your Life Lightly Dance .....

The field was covered in diamond dew droplets and

not a single leaf nor blade of grass was left out of the 

glistening loveliness.

And for a Moment .... I was part of that Magic.

Inhabit Your Moments

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You Can Do It!

Summer Softness

Life is soft and smooth when lived gently.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

  Gateway Trail - Blacksburg, Virginia


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Bare Trees - Reflections

This is actually the "upside down shot"

Trees reflected in the pond.

Seeing, in the finest and broadest sense, means using your senses, your intellect, and your emotions. It means encountering your subject matter with your whole being. It means looking beyond the labels of things and discovering the remarkable world around you.

~ Freeman Patterson

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Play with life, laugh with life,

dance lightly with life, and

smile at the riddles of life,

knowing that life's only true lessons

are writ small in the margin.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Brown Creeper Excitement

 It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

~David Attenborough

Pay Attention To The Story

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

Tree Lined Path in Autumn

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege.

Use it. Dwell in possibility.

~Oprah Winfrey

Carolina Wren in the Autumn Forest

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

~ Orison Swett Marden

I always hear these little wrens before I see them. They have such a beautiful voice.

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Bunny Rabbit - Listen

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, then you will have betrayed yourself.

- Dr. Rollo May

Tree Swallows - "Feed Me!"

The living moment is everything. 
~ D.H. Lawrence