Male Cardinal Sitting Pretty

“If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.” 

 ― Thich Nhat Hanh

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Wild Birds - Male Eastern Towhee

The present moment 

is filled with joy and happiness. 

If you are attentive, you will see it.

 ― Thich Nhat Hanh


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Zen Garden

You don't think your way back to joy; 

 you open to it. 

 ― Donna Quesada

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Yellow-rumped Warbler

We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize. 

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

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Sharing With Others

Mr and Mrs House Finch in the snow ....you can barely see her but she is there :) 

What is most important is to find peace and to share it with others. To have peace, you can begin by walking peacefully. Everything depends on your steps. 

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

More of my House Finch Images - HERE 

When I Looked Up I Saw ....

Let go of your mind and then be mindful. 
Close your ears and listen!

 — Rumi

Engaged In A Miracle

Everyday we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child - our own two eyes. All is a miracle.

 ― Thích Nhất Hạnh

A Serene Encounter With Reality

In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.

 ― Thích Nhất Hạnh

Male Cardinal - keeps his eye on me as I keep my eye on him 

In the Green

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

~ Lao Tzu

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Bird Dance

I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.

 ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

These birds weren't actually dancing.  The White-crowned Sparrow and Tufted Titmouse landed on the fence post at the same time and this image was the result.  

The Titmouse won.

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Just Be

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Floating and Carefree

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. 
~James Thurber

I caught the leaves just as they fell onto the pond. It was a bit windy, as you can see from the ripples in the water. The sky was a bright blue which is reflected in the shot with the yellow leaf. The three pointed leaf was near pines, so the green of the pine is reflected.

autumn leaf art