Tree Branches - Bending and Reflecting

Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.

~ John Muir

Carolina Wren in the Autumn Forest

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

~ Orison Swett Marden

I always hear these little wrens before I see them. They have such a beautiful voice.

Click HERE to hear it.

Leaf in the Cradle

There will come a time, When you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

-Peter Nivio Zarlenga

This was taken October 2008.

New Beginnings

Every day is a fresh beginning, Every morn is the world made new. ~Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
Macro shot of a Dogwood Bud starting to open ~ taken 04-10-11

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

Always Music in the Trees

There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.

~Minnie Aumonier

Friday Feathers ~ Bird and Blossoms

Mockingbird among the blossoms on the tree in my backyard ~ April 2010.

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. ~Anne Bradstreet

Sometimes I think one of the best parts of Spring is the "looking forward to it" part :)

Happy Friday my Friends!

INKED

Lori Thomas is the artist who created these original pendants.

I love how Lori uses ink to turn subtle color variations created with polymer clay into details of landscapes for her inked trees. That is an interesting and fresh concept.