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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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 In Flight - A Simple Blessing

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

- John McLeod

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.

Goldfinch in the Field

Life is mostly froth and bubble,

Two things stand like stone,

Kindness in another's trouble,

Courage in your own.

~Adam Lindsay Gordon

Goldfinch seen on my walk 07-03-11 - Gateway Trail - Blacksburg, VA

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