Twilight at Reelfoot Lake National Wildlife Refuge
“Take a walk with me through nature and let’s gaze on the marvelous wonders of creation.” ~Lailah Gifty Akita
A tinge of pink
Reelfoot National Wildlife Refuge
Wild berries
Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds,
Exhilarate the spirit, and restore
The tone of languid Nature.
~William Cowper
Ring-billed Gulls
“Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.” – Rachel Carson
Lake through the trees
“Each moment of the year has its own beauty . . . a picture which was never before and shall never be seen again.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
A walk in the woods
I enjoy walking the trails around Reelfoot National Wildlife Refuge and seeing the plant and animal life there. The woods are filled with the sound of the leaves rustling in the trees and birds calling back and forth to each other. My favorite forest sound is that of a loud barred owl resonating somewhere off in the distance.
“I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.” ~Henry David Thoreau
Living among the duckweed
Some of the flora and fauna living around the duckweed at Reelfoot National Wildlife Refuge
“It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.” ~David Attenborough
Sitting on a cattail
Recently, while driving down a road near the Mississippi River levee, I spotted this bird sitting among the cattails.
“A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn no other way.” ~Mark Twain
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
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
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
walking on a country road 