Travel Light

This is today! What will tomorrow bring? Life arrives and departs on its own schedule, not ours; it's time to travel light, and be ready to go wherever it takes us.

 ― Meg Wolfe

Out for a Walk

Hiking Trail - Claytor Lake State Park

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world. 

 ~ Paul Dudley White

 Nature truly is the best medicine!!

Observing As I Go

So be sure when you step, 
Step with care and great tact. 
And remember that life's 
A Great Balancing Act. 
And will you succeed? 
Yes! You will, indeed! 
(98 and ¾ percent guaranteed) 
Kid, you'll move mountains. 

 ― Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You'll Go!

When Every Leaf Is A Flower

Autumn is a second spring 
when every leaf is a flower. 

~  Albert Camus

 Heritage Park

Blacksburg, Virginia

Life Is Good

Life is good, 
even though we forget it sometimes. 

 — Abraham M. Alghanem

Heart shaped leaf found on my morning walk. 

I took this with my iPhone

I just LOVE finding Hearts in Nature!

Snapping Turtle

Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. 

Love everything, you will be happiest.

 ~ Sri Chinmoy

Snapping Turtle from our visit to the Western NC Nature Center

Do It On Purpose

As the morning grew

We were  

Dancing in the Dew

Just me and You  

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

 ― Dolly Parton

Beautiful Moments

The most beautiful moments always seemed to accelerate and slip beyond one’s grasp just when you want to hold onto them for as long as possible.

~ E.A. Bucchianeri

During one of my walks this little butterfly landed on my right hand.  With my left hand, I took my iPhone out of my pocket, and tried to snap a few pics of him.  I assume he was drinking the salt from my skin.  It was a most amazing moment .....one I will treasure!

 

Dew-kissed Rosebud

I'd rather have roses on my table 
than diamonds on my neck.

- Emma Goldman

Print Available - HERE 

  

Purple Petals

And 't is my faith, that every flower 

Enjoys the air it breathes.

- William Wordsworth 

Tiny wildflower - blue-eyed grass - seen on a walk.

Print Available - HERE 



 

Wings in the Pink

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

~ Oscar Wilde


More of my Hummingbird Moths -  HERE 

You Must Travel It By Yourself

Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. 

You must travel it by yourself. 

It is not far. It is within reach. 

Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, 

and did not know. 

Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land. 

~ Walt Whitman

iPhone shot through the car window - edited with snapseed 

 

Dwarf Crested Iris

In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight

~ Rabindranath Tagore

Available - HERE 

 

Get Excited Over Little Things

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... 
I play with leaves. 
I skip down the street 
and run against the wind.

~  Leo F. Buscaglia 

Limitless Potential

there is no planet, sun, or star could hold you if you but knew what you are.

~  Ralph Waldo Emerson

Artistic Version available - HERE 

Find Your Focus

Find your focus 
by seeking all that is good in your life.

~ Lorii Myers 

Celebrate Creativity

Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.

~ Albert Einstein

Finding Beauty

If one really loves nature, one can find beauty everywhere. 

 ~ Vincent van Gogh

Holding the Future

Great Grandfather (My Dad) and Great Grandson (My Grandson Conner)

Great Grandmother (My Mom) and Great Grandson Conner

And in today already walks tomorrow. 

 ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

We celebrated Christmas 2012 with the entire family on Friday 12-28-12 and I think all would agree that Mom, Dad, and Conner were the best presents that we received!

Merry Christmas

Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas. 

~ Dale Evans