“By being yourself you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before.” ~Edwin Elliot
Variety
Reelfoot Lake
Along the lake’s edge
There’s music in the sighing of a reed;
There’s music in the gushing of a rill;
There’s music in all things, if people had ears;
Their earth is but the echo of the spheres.
~Lord Byron
Blue Dasher
“Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.” ~A. R. Ammons
Enjoying the view
“Never lose an opportunity to see anything that is beautiful. It is God’s handwriting – a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eastern Amberwing Dragonfly
“Each season has its joys to treasure, to lift one’s spirits and bring us pleasure.” ~Unknown
Trilling frogs
This little frog was camouflaged so well that I would have never seen him, had it not been for his loud melodic chirping. At one point, when the lake got very still and quiet, he was joined by a great chorus of frogs all singing at different frequencies and volumes, scattered throughout the greenery. It was a beautiful sound to the ears.
Later, as I was looking at the photos, I discovered that I had been so focused on the one vocal frog, that I had not noticed that there had been another quieter one hidden nearby (see the last two photos). 🙂
“If we can discover the meaning in the trilling of a frog, perhaps we may understand why it is for us not merely noise but a song of poetry and emotion.” ~Adrian Forsyth
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
A flurry of activity
Snow geese over Reelfoot Lake
“Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.” ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Catching some sun
Turtles of Reelfoot Lake State Park
“Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.” ~Victor Hugh
Breaking the ice
“You never really know your friends from your enemies until the ice breaks.” ~Eskimo Proverb
walking on a country road 