Silver Spotted Skipper Peek-a-Boo

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
 ~ Roald Dahl 

Mesmerized By A Nuthatch

White-breasted Nuthatch

I was always a lover of soft-winged things. 

~ Victor Hugo

The Small Stuff

Some of nature's most exquisite handiwork is on a miniature scale, as anyone knows who has applied a magnifying glass to a snowflake.
 ~Rachel Carson

Flight

Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
~ Langston Hughes

 Beaufort, North Carolina 

Free to Fly

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

~Winston Churchill

 

My Little Green Friend

During one of our North Carolina vacations, I made the acquaintance of this little guy. He is known as a Carolina Anole or a Green Anole. At first I thought maybe he was scared and that is why he has the enlarged red throat. During my research I found that the enlarged red dewlap is also a courting gesture. 
 Maybe he was flirting with me :) 
 It was a real treat to see this little guy!!

Happy 4th of July

Happy 4th of July!

"The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic - have always blown on free men."
~Franklin D. Roosevelt