Great Smoky Mountains

"The mountains are calling and I must go." ~John Muir

Art of Nature

"It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera. They are made with the eye, heart & head."
~Henri Cartier-Bresson

Oh Baby!

"I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us." ~Dickens

Dalla Cucina: From The Kitchen

"Fervet olla, vivit amicitia: While the pot boils, friendship endures. ~Latin Proverb

Iris Impressions

"When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment." ~Georgia O'Keeffe

Art of Flowers

"A flower's appeal is in its contradictions...so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance, so small in size yet big in beauty, so short in life yet long on effect." ~Adabella Radici

Water Lilies and Lotus

"But it chanced the other day that I scented a white water lily...it is the emblem of purity." ~Henry David Thoreau

Butterflies

"Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is just out of grasp. But if you sit quietly, may alight upon you." ~ Nathanial Hawthorne

Hummingbirds

"The hummingbird is a symbol for accomplishing that which seems impossible." ~ Ted Andrews, Animal-Speak

Nature

"There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are not patient enough, quiet enough to pay attention to the story." ~Linda Hogan

Shorebirds of Florida

"To stand at the edge of the sea...to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of years...is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be." ~Rachel Carson

Marine Life

"The ocean is a mighty harmonist." ~ William Wordsworth

Art of Leaves

"And the leaves were telling secrets to the wind." ~Peter Mulvey

Water Impressions

"Water is the driver of nature." ~Leonardo da Vinci

North Carolina

"How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!" ~John Muir

New York State

"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves". ~John Muir

Charleston

"It was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea..." ~Edgar Allan Poe

Florida

"Aah, Florida. Her soul can yet be found by those with wonder in their hearts." ~John Moran

Florida Everglades

"There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth; remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them. " ~Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Places of Worship

"I like the silence of a church, before the service begins." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Transportation

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

Nautical

"Twenty years from now you will be more disppointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." ~Mark Twain

Sail The Air

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return." ~Unknown

Photo Art

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”
~Henry Ward Beecher

Potpourri

pot·pour·ri (n) - any mixture, esp. of unrelated objects, subjects.

Stephanie's Bridal Shower

Darnell and Greg

Melissa and Dave

Stephanie and Melissa

Stephanie and Zachary

Samantha, Justin and Jackson