Damselfly Close-up - Macro Monday

If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere.

~Vincent Van Gogh

About the image: Taken 08-13-11- Gateway Trail - Blacksburg, Virginia with a Nikon D7000 - Nikkor 105mm lens, Aperture Priority, F7.1 - 800 ISO

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Damselfly - Lady Blue Eyes

Few people get weak eyes from looking on the bright side. ~Unknown

Wishing a Happy Day to you All!

Little Things

Never neglect the little things. Never skimp on that extra effort, that additional few minutes, that soft word of praise or thanks, that delivery of the very best that you can do. It does not matter what others think, it is of prime importance, however, what you think about you. You can never do your best, which should always be your trademark, if you are cutting corners and shirking responsibilities. You are special. Act it. Never neglect the little things.

Og Mandino

A Damselfly from my walk 07-02-11

Live Up to the Light You Have

It seemed the Sun was shining directly on this Ebony Jewelwing Damselfly. (Taken last June)
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. ~Abraham Lincoln

My brother is in the process of selling his home in WV. I made a blog page about it to get the word out. Here is the link: At Home in the Country

Nature's Connection

It has been brutally cold here this week so I thought a warm weather shot was needed!

“In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.”

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe