Sunrise and Rainbow

I chased the sunrise...

And got a Bonus Rainbow!

Breathe.  Let go.  And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

~ Oprah Winfrey

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

Blue Skies

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Red-bellied Woodpecker

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

~ Confucius

A Red-bellied Woodpecker - getting ready to take off.

More of My Woodpecker ART is found - HERE 

Decorated by Nature

I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets. It has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful. Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and benumbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.

~Hamlin Garland

Available - HERE 

Holiday Bokeh II

“Christmas magic is silent. 

You don't hear it---you feel it, 

you know it, you believe it.” 

 ― Kevin Alan Milne