6-30-06-- friday

"principles for the development of a
complete mind:
study the science of art.
study the art of science.
develop your senses - especially learn how to see.
realize that everything connects to everything else."

-- leonardo da vinci

6-29-06-- Thursday
"don't hide the candle of your clarity. stand up and burn through the night...
without your clarity a great lion is held captive by a rabbit!"
-- rumi



"what will it take to travel the distance in between your heart and mine...?"
-- lyrics from a song by the subdudes

6-26-06-- Monday -- rainy day at the university of
north carolina, chapel hill -- UNC-Chapel Hill

Carolina Blue reigns in the rain!
Go Heels!!



"in my mind, I'm goin' to carolina..."

-- james taylor

6-25-06-- Sunday-- roses after the rain

"if the angel deigns to come it wil be because you have convinced her, not by tears but by your humble resolve, to be always willing to be a beginner."

- ranier maria rilke

6-24-06-- Saturday- impressionistic
blast of colour and shape.



"but listen to me: for one moment,
quit being sad. hear blessings
dropping their blossoms
around you. God."

-- rumi

6-23-06-- Friday

6-22-06-- Thursday Trailhead at Grayson Highlands State Park, Virginia “the journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step." -- chinese proverb

6-22-06-- Thursday Virginia countryside “behold the plant within the seed, enchanted form, as yet unfreed. growth gently pushes root and shoot, forming leaves, and flowers, and fruit. gaily adorned with colours fair, ornamenting earth and air. so develops, so unfolds all that once its heart did hold.” -- f. ruckert

6-21-06-- Wednesday-- Virginia mountains all of us, by christy barnes “may calm warmth work in us, deep light shine through us, the water’s power sound in us and the ground’s strength live in us. we are all journeying, we are all singing, we are all weeping. we know each other as deeply as we can see. if I do not know you, I am blind or you are bound. let my warmth thaw your bonds. create my eyes with your light. silently and together we are all journeying: like the rivers underground, like trains through the tunnels, like stars through the evening. let us look at each other and know it.”

6-21-06-- Wednesday on a hike at Grayson Highlands State Park “I shall pass this way but once. any good that I can do, or any kindness that I can show, let me do it now. let me not defer or neglect, for I shall not pass this way again.” -- william penn

6-21-06-- Wednesday
placeholder-- goin' on vacation for a few days!


"the morning wind spreads its fresh smell.
we must get up and take that in,
that wind that lets us live.
breathe before it's gone."

-- rumi

6-20-06-- Tuesday

reflections


"nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere
and the circumference nowhere."

-- blaise pascal

6-19-06-- Monday variety at the bike rack “the future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.” john sculley, former ceo of apple computer

6-18-06-- Sunday
father's day brunch in the making

in honor of all fathers and their children and their children's children.

"a grandfather was walking through his yard when he heard
his granddaughter repeating the alphabet in a tone of voice that
sounded like a prayer. he asked her what she was doing. the little
girl explained: "I'm praying, but I can't think of exactly the right words,
so I'm just saying all the letters, and God will put them together for me, because He knows what I'm thinking."


-- charles b. vaughan

6-17-06-- Saturday


"angels and ministers of grace defend us."

-- william shakespeare, hamlet, I.iv

6-16-06-- Friday

"all nature is at the disposal of mankind.
we are to work with it. without it we cannot survive."

-- hildegard of bingen

6-15-06-- Thursday
the geometry of pedal power

"I thought of it while riding my bike."


-- albert einstein

6-14-06-- wednesday in memory of lyman ripperton, on the occasion of the first graduating class - grade 12 - of the emerson waldorf school high school. “life is sacred. life is art. life is sacred art.” -- gabrielle roth

6-13-06-- Tuesday there is a bluebird couple!! see more on bluebirds in my "bird" gallery -- link below: http://butterflites.smugmug.com/gallery/1365065 and now, on to a butterfly! “every time we meet is the first time, because every time you are different, as I also am.” -- carlos valles

6-12-06-- Monday

pardonnez moi while I add 2 more photos for Monday (egads! that makes 3!) there actually was quite a bit of drama around this bluebird house in the afternoon.


a male/female couple hovered around it a bit, he came with twigs in his beak and then 2 other males came and the 3 males got in a tiff over the house (female?).

here's one bluebird staking his territory on the house.

the rope that the following picture shows the bird using as his perch is just above this fellow.

here's the bluebird house from the another angle, showing the mealy worm tray (lightwood hanging from the side) and the metal tree collar to protect the nest from invaders from the ground.

6-12-06-- Monday-- here's one guy hanging from the rope above the bluebird house. will keep you posted on the outcome.

"The population of the Eastern Bluebird declined seriously enough in the past century to reach critical status by the mid-1900s.
The decline was due to:
1. Habitat destruction (loss of fields and nesting cavities in split-rail fences)
2. Pesticide use
3. Nest predation by House Sparrows and European Starlings; both of which are non-native species introduced by humans

Fortunately, the species was rescued by a network of birding enthusiasts who erected nesting boxes for Bluebirds, with close monitoring necessary to prevent House Sparrows from nesting in them. They remain threatened, however, with competition still prevalent from other species (for e.g. Tree Swallows, which are a native species and which also nest in cavities) and in certain states of the US they can still be difficult to spot. It is worth noting that due to the increase in their numbers in the past few decades, they are not protected under the CITES or U.S. Endangered Species Act."
-- from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

6-11-06-- Sunday

stoplight silliness :)

6-10-06-- Saturday

first photographed and perhaps will be my favorite butterfly of the season. the survivor.

6-9-06-- Friday


"love many things, for therein lies the true
strength, and whosoever loves much performs
much, and can accomplish much, and what is
done in love is done well.

-- vincent van gogh

6-8-06-- Thursday


"he is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower."

-- mary howitt (1799 to 1888)

6-7-06-- Wednesday

where and as it landed.

just now (thursday) posting yesterday's photo. it was A Day
and this was the best (only) shot I got. (!)

6-6-06-- Tuesday



"keep your eyes on the stars,
and your feet on the ground."

-- theodore roosevelt

6-5-06-- Monday

"bees carry their pollen in small baskets on their hind legs. when full, they're almost as large as a match head. the pollen in a bee basket might be light yellow if gathered from plantain weeds or dark gray if gathered from wild blackberry blossoms. you might also see her abdomen extended beyond the length of her wings, meaning her honey sacs are full of nectar that she's sucked from plants."

"a worker bee may visit up to 1,000 flowers in one trip that lasts three hours or more."

-- "time for bees" from MaryJanesFarm magazine, summer 2004



"it takes honeybee workers ten million trips to gather enough nectar to make one pound of honey."

-- the secret life of bees

6-4-06-- Sunday


"the only reason for being a bee that I know of is making honey... and the only reason for making honey is so I can eat it."

-- winnie the pooh, a.a. milne



.honeysuckle rose.

6-3-06-- Saturday

"when we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. so it is how we use our lives that determintes the kind of men we are."

-- cesar chavez

6-2-06-- Friday



"a man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul."


-- goethe

6-1-06-- Thursday

view at my desk... my lovelies.

5-31-06-- Wednesday “I don’t paint things. I only paint the difference between things.” -- henri matisse

5-30-06-- Tuesday

the signs of the summer season. students gone. soon to come back. in need of housing. much to landlords' delight.

5-29-06-- Monday went for a drive after dinner and got this shot of horses by a pond. bucolic pose. “I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down...” -- abraham lincoln

5-28-06-- Sunday



"it's a beautiful day for it."

-- daily comment of wilbur cross

5-27-06-- Saturday


"a friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been,
accepts what you have become,
and still, gently allows you to grow."

--shakespeare

5-26-06-- Friday- more hay bales.

have created a new gallery for hay bales. see gallery on my home page or go to:


http://butterflites.smugmug.com/gallery/1496935

5-25-06-- Thursday- here is Monday's barn in a different light. slightly different angle and context.

5-25-06-- Thursday- “all things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections: that the law of human life may be effort and the law of human judgement, mercy.” -- j. ruskind

5-24-06- Wednesday-- practicing patience

"the keys to patience are acceptance and faith. accept things
as they are, and look realistically at the world around you.
have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen."

-- ralph marston

5-23-06-- Tuesday "we have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken... the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether. how many persons we meet in houses, whom we scarcely speak to, whom yet we honor, and who honor us! how many we see in the street, or sit with in church, whom, though silently, we warmly rejoice to be with! read the language of these wandering eyebeams. the heart knoweth. the effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.” -- r. w. emerson, essay on friendship

5-22-06-- Monday

"the rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher."
-- thomas huxley


"courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount."
-- clare boothe luce

5-21-06-- Sunday

5-20-06- Saturday-- while driving home, I got right behind the city truck with the guy taking down the flags that were up in honor of armed forces day.

5-19-06- Friday-- wood, stone, sun

5-18-06- Thursday-- reflections