Lady in Yellow - Female Goldfinch

 “Life truly is precious. 

Gather every moment of it into your arms 

& embrace it.” 

― Paula Abdul

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Goldfinch Peek A Boo in the Verbena

"Some people are so much sunshine 

to the square inch.” 

― Walt Whitman

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Female Goldfinch in Autumn

“The truest greatness lies in being kind, 

the truest wisdom in a happy mind.” 

― Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Female Goldfinch in the Flowers

"The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses." 

 ~ Hanna Rion

Female American Goldfinch in the flowers

at the Hahn Horticulture Garden,

Blacksburg, Virginia 

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American Goldfinch - Thistle Bender

Dance. Smile. Giggle. Marvel. TRUST. HOPE. LOVE. WISH. BELIEVE. Most of all, enjoy every moment of the journey, and appreciate where you are at this moment instead of always focusing on how far you have to go.

 — Mandy Hale

Although not as brightly colored as her male counterpart, 

this Female American Goldfinch was looking quite

fetching in the thistle.

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Such Pretty Ways

Female Goldfinch

The goldfinch has many pretty ways. 
He is one of our most amiable birds. 

- John Burroughs

"She is" in this case :) 

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Profile in the Pines

Female Goldfinch

The responsibilities of life seem to rest lightly on the Goldfinch's sunny shoulders. 

Roger T. Peterson

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American Goldfinch Flies Between The Thistle

Female American Goldfinch takes flight

A closer crop of the same pic - those wings just make my heart flutter every time :)

Each moment of the year has its own beauty... a picture which was never seen before and which shall never be seen again.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Kindness and Gentleness

We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. 

~ Charlie Chaplin

Female Goldfinch snacks on a wildflower

Thankful

Goldfinch Couple - Heritage Park - Blacksburg VA

Every day is a day to be thankful. Life's abundance has no limit, and gratitude is what keeps that abundance flowing. In every circumstance there is something for which to be thankful. Even when there seems to be nothing else, there is hope. 

~ Ralph Marston

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Autumn Goldfinch

To be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars;
to be satisfied with your possessions, but not contented with yourself
until you have made the best of them;
to despise nothing in the world except falsehood and meanness,
and to fear nothing except cowardice;
to be governed by your admirations rather than by your disgusts;
to covet nothing that is your neighbor's except
his kindness of heart and gentleness of manners;
to think seldom of your enemies, often of your friends,
and every day of Christ;
and to spend as much time as you can, with body and with spirit,
in God's out-of-doors --
these are the little guideposts on the footpath to peace.
~Henry Van Dyke