Category Archives: Nature

WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: Contrasts

Posted on June 29, 2014 by Beth F.

The WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge this week is Contrasts.  To meet this week’s challenge, I chose photos that I took in Disney’s Animal Kingdom, Disney’s Epcot and Disney’s Art of Animation Resort. The first photo could be considered a study in contrasts … Continue reading →

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What a difference a day (or two) makes!

Posted on June 1, 2014 by Beth F.

Flowers don’t worry about how they’re going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful. ~Jim Carrey If you’ve never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower … Continue reading →

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WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: Spring

Posted on May 8, 2014 by Beth F.

Ah, spring!  It’s been a long time coming this year.  I’m sliding in at the very last minute to this week’s WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge which is Spring.  I couldn’t resist the chance to show off some of my favorite spring flowers and … Continue reading →

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WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside

Posted on March 16, 2014 by Beth F.

In my entry for this week’s WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge, there is a hippo looking out from the inside of its enclosure.  The topic for this week’s challenge is “Inside”.   I love the way the hippo is surrounded by fish … Continue reading →

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Wednesday Wishes for Warmer Weather!

Posted on February 19, 2014 by Beth F.

I KNOW I’m not the only one longing for springtime temperatures and an end to the seemingly eternal winter that has descended upon a large part of the country!  On one of our all too fleeting warm days last week, … Continue reading →

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Horizon

Posted on October 28, 2013 by Beth F.

You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon.  The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when … Continue reading →

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There’s no place like home – The Beautiful Black Hills of SD

Posted on September 29, 2013 by Beth F.

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 Mid pleasures and … Continue reading →

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Be like the Bee!

Posted on September 23, 2013 by Beth F.

The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors but because she labors for others. ~ Saint John Chrysostom

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Weekly Photo Challenge: An Unusual POV

Posted on September 8, 2013 by Beth F.

When you grow up you tend to get told the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have … Continue reading →

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Keep your eyes open…you never know what you might see!

Posted on September 2, 2013 by Beth F.

While visiting Mount Rushmore National Memorial to view the evening lighting ceremony, we were lucky enough to get to see a mother mountain goat and her baby grazing on some prairie grass near the entrance.    The lighting ceremony was very … Continue reading →

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Sea

Posted on August 30, 2013 by Beth F.

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.  – Jacques Yves Cousteau When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing – just sitting and looking at the sea, … Continue reading →

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Carefree

Posted on August 16, 2013 by Beth F.

My entry this week in the Weekly Photo Challenge: Carefree    These photos were taken in June, 2012 at the Yaquina Head Lighthouse in Newport, OR.  It was a fun, relaxing, carefree vacation.  The dark rocks are basalt pebbles and when … Continue reading →

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