Backlit Butterfly - Macro Monday

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

~Henry David Thoreau

About the Image: Taken on the morning of 06-05-11 - Gateway Trail - Blacksburg Virginia

I don't know the ID on this little guy.

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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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Hummingbird Moth - Marvelous Nature

One of my favorite quotes to go with one of my favorite creatures. Taken in August 2011

Summer Softness

Life is soft and smooth when lived gently.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

About the image: Taken 09-24-11 - Gateway Trail - Blacksburg, Virginia

Posting a bit of summer on a cold winter's day

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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Butterfly Wings - Wings on Wednesday

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

~Joseph Chilton Pearce

About the image: "Shades of November" texture by Kim Klaussen added to this image. Kim offers many of her textures for free. A Link to her site is - HERE

I miss seeing the butterflies. This is either a Black Tiger Swallowtail or a Pipevine Swallowtail. Those two ALWAYS confuse me!

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Macro Monday - At the Top

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

~ Henry Miller

About the Image: Taken 05-11-11 - I had quite a fascination with ants over the summer. They move so fast it's hard to get them in focus.

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Locust Borer Beetle - Macro Monday

As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others.

~ Robert H Schuller

This is a Lifer Bug for me - the first one I've even seen. I find him quite unique - and - beautiful in his own special way. He was crawling in the Goldenrod and blends in quite well.

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Green Shield Bug - The Climb

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ladybug - Strolling Along The Lace

If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things,

This is the best season of your life.

- Wu-Men

Ladybug strolling along the aging Queen Anne's Lace

Common Buckeye Butterfly

Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.

~Heinrich Heine

Blue Butterfly - Balanced

So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Dragonfly - How We Look at Things

It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how things are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

~Carl Jung

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

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Hummingbird Moth And Summer Colors

What a beautiful, sunny morning. It makes you happy to be alive, doesn't it? We can't let the sun outshine us! We have to beam, too!

~Takayuki Ikkaku

Yes, it's another Hummingbird Moth. I have seen more this summer than ever before and I will miss them when they are gone. This week has felt a bit like Fall with cooler mornings and I've even heard the Geese flyover each morning and evening.

Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly - A Different Look

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

~Wayne Dyer

Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly looking right at me - from my walk 08-13-11

Deerfield Trail - Blacksburg, Virginia

Damselfly - Lady Blue Eyes

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

Wishing a Happy Day to you All!

The Daisy and The 'Did

To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping. ~Chinese Proverb

Dragonfly - A Moment in Time

What the human eye observes causally and incuriously, the eye of the camera notes with relentless fidelity. -Berenice Abbott

Ladybug - Holding On

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. ~Edmund Hillary