Day Two Hundred Seventy 2012

"In the garden, Autumn is, indeed the crowning glory of the year, bringing us the fruition of months of thought and care and toil.
And at no season, safe perhaps in Daffodil time, do we get such superb colour effects as from August to November." - Rose G. Kingsley, The Autumn Garden, 1905

Day Two Hundred Forty 2012

Random

"Summer's lease hath all too short a date."
- William Shakespeare

Day Two Hundred Thirty Five 2012

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
~Albert Einstein

Day One Hundred Ninety Two 2012

There will be a rain dance Friday night, weather permitting. ~ George Carlin







Heavy rain at my house this morning—a gully washer. Granddaughter Shelby and grandson Elijah saw me outside taking pictures of it and couldn’t resist playing in the mini-river rushing down the street after the downpour. Rain is such a beautiful and rare sight these days that we all stop what we’re doing and stare at it whenever it does start to fall. (And take pictures of it….)

Day One Hundred Fifty Nine 2012

Random Macro Around My Yard~Flowers, Ant, Flower Bud, Sunlight Reflections In Birdbath




Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
~Robert Louis Stevenson

Day One Hundred Fifty Six 2012

Random macro photos of an alien looking pod, a lightning bug and a bee which I did not use my macro lens on because I figured he’d get really mad at me if I got closer to him than this.

Day One Hundred Twenty Six 2012

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Day One Hundred Seventeen 2012

Let’s dance! I snapped these two ants with my macro lens this afternoon. They were crawling around on a clover flower in my back yard and were about the size of the exclamation point in that first sentence. When they found each other, they paused long enough to say ‘hi’ to each other (and for me to snap this picture while they were still) and then they moved on. Places to go, other ants to see, I guess.

Day One Hundred Sixteen 2012

Pretty In Pink (Macro)

Day One Hundred Nine 2012

To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way
Until the peacock led him in.
 ~Charles Godfrey Leland
(Macro peacock feather)

Day Ninety Six 2012

This looks like an insect wing, doesn't it? It's a macro shot of a tree seed (one of what seems like millions covering everything on and around our house right now). I refer to them as those 'whirly things'. They look like helicopters spinning in the wind. If they all took root, we'd have ourselves a nice little forest in about twenty years. 

Day Eighty Seven 2012

But make no mistake: the weeds will win; nature bats last. 
~Robert M. Pyle
(macro shot~dandelion spores)

Day Eighty Five 2012

Random Macro Photos~Blooms, Typewriter Keys, Printed Word

Day Eighty 2012

"Sitting quietly, doing nothing,
Spring comes, and the grass grows by itself."
~  The Gospel According To Zen
(macro wild daisy about the size of my thumbnail) 

Day Seventy Nine 2012

'This world is not my home. I'm just a-passing through.' 

~hymn

Day Seventy Two 2012

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Day Sixty Five 2012

"God is in the details."
~anonymous