Simple Pleasures

It is the simple pleasures in life that bring me joy.  Watching a Carolina Chickadee build a nest, birds feeding and foraging, and cardinals enjoying a bath….

A lesson from Sea Gulls

“We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.”
― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

“We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.”
― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

     

My Neighbor

While I am blessed to live on the glorious island that is Bald Head, I am also blessed with a beautiful neighboring city a short ferry ride away”

Southport, North Carolina, USA

Good day for a walk.

Eying dinner.

God Bless America.

Cormorant.

In case you wondered.

Watching and Waiting.

Winter Blooms.

Be a blessing

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

Maya Angelou 

Waiting for summer…….

I love summertime more than anything else in the world. That is the only thing that gets me through the winter, knowing that summer is going to be there.

Jack McBrayer

Oh My Deer!

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

Lord Byron

 

Departing from the “norm”!

I’ve found that I typically wander to the same spots around my home to photograph nature.  It occurred to me that I was not taking advantage of all that surrounds me on this natural paradise that is my home!  These photos are the results of my new “meanderings”! This last photo reminds me of some creature, but I just can’t put my finger on it!  I trust you will enjoy!

What is your window?

I tend to view the world from behind my lens, framing things as they come into view.  How do you view your world?  What is beyond that window you are looking through?  Windows can be found in many shapes, sizes and forms.  It is what we do when we look through those windows that helps us stand apart and make a difference!  J.H.Hilton

As I reflect on the past year I leave you with these words………

“Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings

Merry Christmas Birdy Style!

Oh the glory of nature!!!!

Merry Christmas One and All!!!!!