Summer Hay

 “Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.” 

 - Horace

Print Available - HERE 

Summer Salutations - Pink Coneflower

 “I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days.” 

— Henry David Thoreau

Print Available - HERE 

Ode to Summer - Lily with Droplets

 "One must maintain a little bit of summer, 

even in the middle of winter." 

– Henry David Thoreau 

 Print Available - HERE

Pretty on Pink - Male Goldfinch

 Male Goldfinch 

"The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway." 

—Michael Pollan

Print Available - HERE 

Hummingbird Pit Stop

 "Summertime is always the best 

 of what might be." 

 ~ Charles Bowden 

 Print Available - HERE

Red Looks Good On Her

 "It is never too late to be 

what you might have been." 

— George Eliot 

Print Available - HERE

Water Lily X 2

"My wish is to stay always like this, 

living quietly in a corner of nature." 

 - Claude Monet

Print Available - HERE 

Catbird in the Serviceberry

“Happiness is not limited. 

There’s enough for everyone.” 

― Susane Colasanti

Print Available - HERE 

Summer Web

"Wander a whole summer if you can... time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it....." 

 ― John Muir

Print Available - HERE 

Blue Hydrangea Bush

“It’s up to us to choose contentment and thankfulness now—and to stop imagining that we have to have everything perfect before we’ll be happy.” 

― Joanna Gaines   

This Print Available - HERE 

Morning Fog at Hungry Mother State Park

"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, 

places to play in and pray in, 

where Nature may heal and cheer 

and give strength to body and soul alike." 

 ~ John Muir

Print Available - HERE 

Colorful Canoes at Hungry Mother State Park

“I go to nature every day for 

inspiration in the day’s work.” 

– Frank Lloyd Wright

Print Available - HERE 

Pink Coneflower - Flowers of Summer

“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.” 

 ― Ray Bradbury

Prints and More are Available on my Website - HERE 

Bee and Anemone

“A work of arte; and yet no arte of man, 

Can worke, this worke, these little creatures can” 

– Geffrey Whitney, 1586

Prints and more are available:  HERE

Hummingbird Moths In Flight - Delight and Joy

"Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy; 

 they heed not our expectancy; 

 But round some corner of the streets of life 

 they of a sudden greet us with a smile." 

 ~ Gerald Massey

Print Available - HERE 

Summer On The New River

I was made for Sunny Days 

~ Unknown

Summer on the New River - Narrows, Virginia

Giles County

This print is available - HERE 

Bales of Hay

And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and learn to be at home.

 ― Wendell Berry

Available - HERE 

Baby Robins Ready To Be Fed

 The most important thing anyone can do 
is raise their kids well. 

― Claire Cross

AVAILABLE - HERE 

Walking with Butterflies

Monarch Butterfly 

Remember that nature is your great restorer. 

~ Calvin Coolidge

The Hahn Horticulture Garden at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg has a lovely meadow of flowers at the very bottom.....and of course, beautiful butterflies!

Artistic Print - HERE 

Fritillary Flies Over the Field

If you are a regular here - you know that I am ALWAYS trying to get "flight" shots.  

Butterflies, Birds, Bugs - just about anything with wings that I can capture with my camera.  This is Fritillary butterfly flying over a field of wildflowers - a Variegated Fritillary (I think) 

This totally shows what my summer is all about!

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

 ― Robert F. Kennedy

You can see a different version of this - HERE