Flight of Mystery

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.  

~ Albert Einstein

Hummingbird moth ready to dive in for a drink.


Artistic Print Available - HERE 

 

Flying High

And I learned to wander. I learned what every dreaming child needs to know -- that no horizon is so far that you cannot get above it or beyond it. 

~ Beryl Markham

Paint Bliss

Life in itself is an empty canvas; it becomes whatsoever you paint on it. You can paint misery, you can paint bliss. This freedom is your glory.

~ Osho

This image pretty much sums up BLISS to me

This is a Black Vulture in flight.  

I Just Can't Resist

Once my heart was captured,

 reason was shown the door, 

deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy.

 I accepted everything, I believed everything, 

without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. 

How can one blush for what one adores? 

~ George Sand 

I just can't resist trying to capture "flight" shots.  Whether it be 

butterflies or birds or bees.  

Nature has captured my heart!

Ducks in Flight Over The New River

I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.

~ John O'Donohue

  Taken at Bisset Park, Radford Virginia during a walk 
along the Riverway Trail on the New River

Great Blue Heron In Flight

Be like the bird in flight . . . pausing a while on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, yet sings knowing yet, that she has wings.

— Victor Hugo

Great Blue Heron in flight - 
Izaak Walton Park, Christiansburg, Virginia

Wings of Friendship

Ah, how good it feels! 

The hand of an old friend.

― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Print Available - HERE 

Happiness Flutters .....

Black Vulture - Caught in Mid Flap

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

-James Thurber

Many times I hear these creatures before I see them. Their wings make a type of "woosh, woosh" sound as they fly overhead. Quite a thrill to hear!

Dragonfly - A Moment in Time

What the human eye observes causally 
and incuriously, 
the eye of the camera notes with relentless fidelity.
-Berenice Abbott

Goldfinch Flyaway

The goal is not to change your subjects, but for the subject to change the photographer. 
 ~ Unknown

This little flyaway goldfinch was seen on the same day as the one I posted before. Some have asked how often I see these little ones .... I see them quite often. Sweet little yellows hanging out in the fields and chowing down on the seeds. Click HERE to hear the variety of songs they sing. (I had to click it twice so you may need to do that.)

Gull Landing

We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time. 
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Shine On!

Like the sky opens after a rainy day we must open to ourselves.... Learn to love yourself for who you are and open so the world can see you shine. 
~ James Poland

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Great Blue Flyover

A Great Blue Heron flew over as I was walking on a very foggy morning at Heritage Park in
 Blacksburg Virginia. What an awesome wingspan!

Spread your wings and let the fairy in you fly!  
~ Author Unknown

Sandpiper Flight

  Exude happiness and you will feel it back a thousand times.
 - Joan Lunden

Grateful for the Abundance

Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend ... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present-love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature, and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure-the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience heaven on earth. 
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

Away from the Crowd

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily. 
~ Arthur Brisbane

Fascinated with Flight

We are each of us in this world an angel with only one wing. In order to fly we must embrace each other. 
~ Unknown

I am fascinated with butterflies and birds in flight. Actually all flying creatures fascinate me. They seem so graceful and carefree.

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Landing Gear Down

 
As perfume to the flower, so is kindness to speech. 
- Katherine Francke


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White-breasted Nuthatch In Flight

  
Every place is given its character by certain patterns of events that keep on happening there…The more living patterns there are in a place—a room, a building or a town—the more it comes to life as an entirety, the more it glows, the more it has that self-maintaining fire which is the quality without a name.

~ Christopher Alexander

One of my all time favorite places for 
photographing birds is Bisset Park in 
Radford, Virginia. 
There is a paved trail that leads you beside the 
New River and allows for amazing photo opportunities. 
The blue you see in the background 
of this photo is the sky reflected off of the river.  

As you can see, it was definitely a blue sky day.