Natural beauty…

Didn’t hook it in the corner of the mouth. Snapped a shot of that beautiful head and released it back. çSwittersB

crowded surface…

surface fo a backwater wetland near Columbia R. Slough in NE Portland (Oregon)

Solitude at dusk…

“I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.” Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet 

Explore a bit…

‘If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.’ Anatole France

Floral farewell…

Sigh…I won’t be inundating you with flowers, particularly roses until next Spring…not that I don’t have a gazillion images saved. Heavy rains have battered them down; last struggling buds trying to blossom. Colder temps and rain bringing those efforts to a halt.

from heaven above…

A ‘biblical moment’ on an Oregon lake…cold and dark out…the rays burst through. 

Beautiful to me…

“There was something rather blousy about roses in full bloom, something shallow and raucous, like women with untidy hair” Daphne du Maurier