Indigo Bunting Blues

Jumping for joy is good exercise. 

 ~ Unknown

Male Indigo Bunting seen during a summer walk. 

Exhale Only Love

Exhale Only Love 

 ~Rumi


Print Available - HERE 

American Goldfinch Friends

Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. 

 ~ Unknown

Two guys and a girl..... that is - two male goldfinch and a female - hanging out on the finch sock.  They have their "summer colors" on - as this was taken in May.

I LOVE to catch the birds hanging out together :) 

More of my Goldfinch Images - HERE 
 

Red-Winged Blackbird

But youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

 - Oscar Wilde

Male Red-winged Blackbird.  Perhaps a youngster?

Quite a different look than the female - which you can see 

HERE

Otter Snuggles

During a visit to the 

Western North Carolina Nature Center  

One of the highlights was seeing the River Otters.

They always make me smile :) 

If you don't start out the day with a smile, it's not too late to start practicing for tomorrow. 

~  Unknown

Soothing

The very winds whispered in soothing accents, 

and maternal Nature bade me weep no more. 

~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

 

I found a tiny waterfall (flowing under ice) that I made a video of

 

Standing on the Lichen

White-crowned sparrow on lichen covered branch 

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. 

Nothing is that important. 

– Natalie Goldberg

and stress sometimes keeps you from doing what IS important!

More of my Bird Images - HERE