Macro Monday - The Embrace

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Albert Einstein

About the image: Taken early morning on 07-17-11. I thought it looked like the

bee was being embraced by the wildflower.

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Bee covered in Pollen

~Such AMAZING Creatures~

~A Closer Look~

I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?

~James Thomson

Green Bee Loaded with Pollen

Amazement awaits us at every corner.

~James Broughton

Green Bee (I think) loaded down with pollen.

From My Early Morning Walk

I used to love night best but the older I get the more treasures and hope and joy I find in mornings. ~Terri Guillemets

Make it a Day for Planting Kindness

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. ~ Saint Basil

Treasure in the Trees

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return. ~Mary Jean Iron