Carry Joy In Your Heart

 “If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.”

 —Carlos Santana

In Every Walk With Nature

 "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." 

 - John Muir

Male goldfinch harvesting seeds from the flowers.

Our walk today was along the Huckleberry trail but in the opposite direction of our normal Hethwood walk.  We started after church so it was quite hot.  

Our milage today -  1.6 miles.

Goldfinch Sings

 "The only thing better than singing 

is more singing!" 

- Ella Fitzgerald

Print Available - HERE 

Sunshine in the Wildflowers - American Goldfinch

 “In summer, the song sings itself.” 

—William Carlos Williams

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End of Summer - Male Goldfinch

 

“Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.”

-William Shakespeare 

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Pretty on Pink - Male Goldfinch

 Male Goldfinch 

"The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway." 

—Michael Pollan

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Goldfinch on a Branch

 “Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.” 

— William Makepeace Thackeray 

 

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Goldfinch and Verse

    

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Male Goldfinch in the Verbena

"The goldfinch has many pretty ways. 

 He is one of our most amiable birds." 

 - John Burroughs

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Male Goldfinch Portrait

"Teach us delight in the simple things, And mirth that has no bitter springs; Forgiveness free of evil done, And love to all men beneath the sun."

- Rudyard Kipling

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Male Goldfinch in the Wildflowers of Summer

“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. 

Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.”

 ― Rabindranath Tagore

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Summer Goldfinch in the Wildflowers

“Outside the open window 

The morning air is all awash with angels.” 

 ― Richard Wilbur

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Male Goldfinch in the Thistle

"Talk happiness. The world is sad enough" 

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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American Goldfinch And His Beard of Thistle

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 ....

 ― Mandy Hale

I hope this little Goldfinch put a smile on your face :) 

American Goldfinch - Thistle Lover

He often in the trees did sing, 

With lively notes light as wings, 

And to all the other birds he brings 

Happiness and delight.

- Telemachus

The rest of the poem is found - HERE 

Bird Art - Goldfinch in the Chicory Wildflowers

“It’s a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.” 

 - Germany Kent

This Art created from my original photograph

of a male goldfinch in the field of chicory wildflowers.

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A Little Stardust Caught

American Goldfinch feeds on the seeds of this wildflower - a type of thistle perhaps?

The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched.

 — Henry David Thoreau   

Available - HERE 

Golden Blessing

Concentrate on counting your blessings and you'll have little time to count anything else.    

Woodrow Kroll

More of my Goldfinches - HERE 

Goldfinch Feeding

Love wins, love always wins.

~ Mitch Albom

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Daddy Goldfinch feeding baby.  How wonderful it was to experience this sight first hand.  Observing nature is one of the greatest treasures found on this amazing planet.  

Seen on a walk on Heritage Park Trail - Blacksburg,

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!