Yellow Trout Lily
“Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven’t time, and to see takes time – like to have a friend takes time.” ~ Georgia O’Keeffe The Trout lily is small, only about 8 inches high. To...
View ArticleBloodroot
“Who would have thought it possible that a tiny little flower could preoccupy a person so completely that there simply wasn’t room for any other thought.” ~ Sophie Scholl The bloodroot is a member of...
View ArticleSharped-Lobed Hepatica
“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.” ~ Maxim Gorky The Hepatica comes in two verities round-lobed and...
View ArticleHigh Water
“What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn’t have any doubt – it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn’t want to go anywhere else.” ~ Hal Boyle Eau Claire (French for clear...
View Article1950 Pontiac
“Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog’s face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window” ~ Unknown Yesterday one of the local car dealers sponsored a...
View ArticleClassic Corvette
“A senior citizen drove his brand new Corvette convertible out of the dealership. Taking off down the road, he floored it to 80 mph, enjoying the wind blowing through what little gray hair he had...
View ArticleWesleyan Church – Winona, MN
“An humble spire, pointing heavenward from an obscure church, speaks of man’s nature, man’s dignity, man’s destiny, more eloquently than all the columns and arches of Greece and Rome, the mausoleums...
View ArticleChurch Door & Window
“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, and honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” ~...
View Article1960s era Caddy
“Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.” ~ Elbert Hubbard My father secretly always wanted a...
View ArticleWisconsin Scene – Altered
“Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were...
View ArticleAging Wisconsin Farm
“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed” ~ Booker T Washington My...
View ArticleWhite Spiderwort
“When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look...
View ArticleWhite Spiderwort – Adjusted
Who inspires you? Georgia O’Keeffe, Monet, Renoir, Cezanne, Degas, Charles Waite, or Mike Moats? Some would say we are inspired by everything we have seen, tasted, been and done. To some degree I’m...
View ArticleBirch and Fether
Ultimately, the only real key to success is to understand what your equipment is capable of and taking the time and trouble to learn how to use it to its full capacity” ~ Paul Davis - Nature...
View ArticleJuly 4th
“You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family...
View ArticleChimney Cleanout Door
“Bowmen bend their bows when they wish to shoot; unbrace them when the shooting is over. Were they kept always strung they would break and fail the archer in the time of need. So it is wiht men. If...
View ArticleSunflower Impression
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” ~ Albert Einstein Today’s capture started out as a single sunflower. First, I used the Topaz plugin – Lens Effects – to get the three flowers. After...
View ArticleTeal Lake Sunrise – Solarized
“There isn’t a single person or landscape or subject which doesn’t possess some interest, although it may not be immediately apparent. When a painter discovers this hidden treasure, other people are...
View ArticleFishing With Dad
“My wife said I have so many fly rods and reels that I cannot possibly use them all. My reply was that I had rods and reels to fish, rods and reels to tinker with and then my fine-crafted rods and...
View ArticleImperfect Fern
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he’s been given. But up to now he hasn’t been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry...
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