“True friendship is sitting together in silence and feeling like it was the best conversation you’ve ever had.” ~Unknown
Side by side
Taking charge
As I was taking photos of some turtles sunning on a log, a Great Blue Heron boldly landed on one end of the log and very assertively began marching herself right down the middle of it, scattering the turtles as she went.
“Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.” ~Irma Kurtz
Diligence
“Little by little, the bird builds its nest.” ~Haitian Proverb
Home sweet home
“Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.” ~Robert Montgomery
Bearded Iris
The town of Dresden, in Northwest Tennessee, has an Iris Festival on the first weekend in May. Part of the festival includes a flower show. Below are some photos from this year’s flower show as well as some of my favorite iris from around the area.
“A flower’s appeal is in its contradictions — so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance, so small in size yet big in beauty, so short in life yet long on effect.” ~Terri Guillemets
Storm off to the north
“I love the smell of rain and growing things.” ~Serina Hernandez
Brown Thrasher
“I take a simple view of living. It is, keep your eyes open and get on with it.” ~Sir Laurence Olivier
Fragrant blooms
“My garden, with its silence and pulses of fragrance that come and go on the airy undulations, affects me like sweet music. Care stops at the gates, and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.” ~Alexander Smith
End of the day
“You have to work hard at being happy, just like you have to work hard at being miserable. I wake up every day expecting all to be good and right. And if it’s not, I set my mind to making it so by the end of the day.” ~Dolly Parton
A cow and her calf
“There are no perfect parents and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way.” ~Dave Williams
walking on a country road 