Hover Fly Macro

Let your mind start a journey thru a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be…Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar, and you’ll live as you’ve never lived before.

~ Erich Fromm

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Blue Jay - Taking A Big Bite

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Butterfly Chrysalis - Macro Monday

Kiss your life. Accept it, just as it is. Today. Now. So that those moments of happiness you're waiting for don't pass you by.

~Unknown

What a thrilling find! Seen on my walk 09-24-11 - Gateway Trail - Blacksburg, VA

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Droplet Duo

Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't.

~ Melody Beattie

Lessons from the Journey

The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.

~Don Williams, Jr.

Monarch Butterfly - Egg Laying - Ovipositing

Monarch Butterfly laying an egg - ovipositing - on the underside of a milkweed leaf.

Cropped closely - but I hope you can see the little egg it laid. It was quite thrilling to see this happening. Only when I got the image downloaded did I realize I captured the egg as well.

Taken Sunday 08-21-11 - Heritage Park - Blacksburg, VA

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

- Unknown

Monarch Butterfly In Flight - A Simple Blessing

Life holds so many simple blessings, each day bringing its own individual wonder.

- John McLeod

Ladybug - Kissed by the Morning Dew

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.

~Tecumseh

Ladybug shot yesterday morning - 08-20-11 - with the morning dew.

Izaak Walton Park - Christiansburg, VA

Friends - Thanks so much for stopping by! I appreciate you!!

Monarch Caterpillar - Living Among the Leaves

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

~Seneca

Carolina Wren - Discovery

The essence of living is discovering. Indeed, it is the joy of discovery that makes life worth the effort. ~Vijay Krishna

My Sweet Mama

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face. ~George Eliot

My sweet Mama. Not only is she beautiful on the outside - but most importantly - she is beautiful on the inside. (image shot yesterday 08-06-11 with my Iphone)

Red-winged Blackbird - On His Way

The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination. ~Don Williams, Jr.

Mockingbird Tightrope Walker - Friday Feathers

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life. ~William Arthur Ward

Each Day is a Gift

Male Blubird taken at Blackwater NWF in Cambridge MD - December 2010
Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God. ~Mary Manin Morrissey

The Abundance of Life

Stop every now and then. Just stop and enjoy. Take a deep breath. Relax and take in the abundance of life. ~Unknown

From my archives from April of last year ~ I believe this is some type of Poplar Tree leaf - possibly a Yellow Poplar. Happy Sunday to you all!