Framing Fall

Like stained glass?

Busy bee

"Necklace" of seeds

Sidewalk bouquet

Looking for lunkers

The MK Nature Center recently stocked their waters with spawning salmon (that's why they are bright orange)

No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise
~ Lewis Carroll

Skies of late August

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes. 
~e.e. cummings

To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie -
True Poems flee.
~Emily Dickinson

Plants of summer

One generation plants the trees, and another gets the shade
~ Chinese proverb

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
~ Erma Bombeck

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love
~ Proverb

Most men (people), like plants, possess hidden qualities which chance discovers.
~ François de la Rochefoucauld

A little wildlife

Checkered White butterfly 

Look closely for the bee in flight 

So wild, she has to be kept behind glass 

Dance!

I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance. 

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Dancing is silent poetry. 

~ Simonides

Dancing faces you towards Heaven, whichever direction you turn. 

~ Terri Guillemets

Beauty, spines, and determination

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
~Voltaire

Where there's a will, there's a way
~ Proverb

As evening comes

A mourning dove rests

A goose family heads for the pond

Another dove arrives;
They wait for the night.

June

Flowers leave some of their fragrance in the hand that bestows them.
~ Chinese proverb

A heron, some flowers, & a bit of graffiti

Enjoying the view 

A bit of an itch 

Up on the roof

Secret messages

Eyes to the sky

To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie -
True Poems flee.
~Emily Dickinson

If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks. 
~Francois Rabelais

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Blooms and blossoms

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
~Rainer Maria Rilke

Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
~Rainer Maria Rilke, "Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke"

More of "the day in the park"

The park I mentioned last week is more than the "land of geese". When we stood on the bridge, we noticed a turtle which occasionally stuck his head out of the water, treading water with his front feet to stay afloat. (Too far away for a photo) 

A "rock garden"? We're not sure. 

Shadows across a gazebo. 

View across the water. 

More shadows in another gazebo. The "gong-like" item at the far end is a chunk of an enormous tree trunk. Poignant.... 

The entrance -- and exit -- of the park.

In the land of geese

On this beautiful spring day, we went to one of the local parks -- one that is very popular for Canadian geese or branta canadensis, as biologists would say.

This one seems to be floating in a watercolor painting.

Taking a bath? Having a disagreement? Not sure....

Silent and watching, right by the main footpath.

I'll post more photos from this park soon.