Bee and Bluebells

 “Spring is terribly exciting when you are living right in it.” 

- Jean Craighead George

Pearl Crescent Butterfly

 “Appreciation is the sunrise that paints the sky of life with hues of joy and warmth.” 

– Lucy Sinclair

Wide Open Wings - Painted Lady Butterfly

 “The soul that gives thanks can find comfort in everything; ..." 

― Hannah Whitall Smith

Wash Your Spirit Clean

 "Keep close to Nature's heart...and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean." 

~ John Muir

Common Buckeye Butterfly on White Flowers

 “Give yourself time for those things that are most important in your life!” 

― Emilie Barnes 

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Long-tailed Skipper Butterfly

 "Life is a voyage of discovery." 

~ Unknown

My first Long-tailed Skipper Butterfly

08-22-2024

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Bee on the Wet Wildflower

 “Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.” 

― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Wildflowers and Wings

                                        Kind hearts are the gardens, 

Kind thoughts are the roots, 
Kind words are the flowers, 
Kind deeds are the fruits,
 Take care of your garden 
And keep out the weeds, 
Fill it with sunshine 
Kind words and kind deeds

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Diving In!

 “Be the reason someone smiles. 

Be the reason someone feels loved 

and believes in the goodness in people.” 

― Roy T. Bennett

Hummingbird in the Mimosa Tree

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Strength and Resilience - Swallowtail Butterfly

 "We are stronger, gentler, more resilient, 

and more beautiful than any of us imagine." 

 – Mark Nepo

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Resting on a Water Lily - Dragonfly

“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.”

 - Seneca

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Marigold Merriment - Common Buckeye Butterfly

 “Do anything, but let it produce joy.” 

- Walt Whitman

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Swallowtail Sweetie - Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly

“There are two ways of spreading light: 

to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” 

—Edith Wharton

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Peek-a-Boo Hummingbird

 “Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.” 

 ―Charles Dickens

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Pileated Woodpecker Wings

 “Every second is of infinite value.” 

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

 Have you ever noticed that pileated woodpecker wings 

look like piano keys when outstretched?

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Stay Close To Nature - Monarch Butterfly in Ironweed

 "Study nature, love nature, 

stay close to nature."

- Frank Lloyd Wright 

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Wings Of A Lady - Painted Lady Butterfly

 “Butterflies can’t see their wings. 

They can’t see how truly beautiful they are, 

but everyone else can. 

People are like that as well.” 

- Unknown 

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Winged Tiger - Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Dark Morph

 "You are never too old to set another goal 

or to dream a new dream." 

— C.S. Lewis 

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Green on Green - Dragonfly

 "Patience requires a slowing down, 

a spaciousness, a sense of ease." 

 — Allan Lokos 

I believe this is an Eastern Pondhawk Dragonfly 

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Wings of Yellow

 "In small proportions we just beauties see, 

 And in short measures life may perfect be."

 - Ben Jonson 

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