The Line of White

"I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose 

I would always greet it in a garden."

~Ruth Stout

This post is linked with Friday Fences.

It’s Snowtime on Route 60 West ~ Our Road

This is another shot of the road which runs in front of our house. I posted it last week, but just a few days later it looked quite different after the snow. The new pictures were so pretty  I just had to post one of them. The snow started late Saturday afternoon and lasted until the afternoon on Sunday. We had no school on Monday, and then today it was all gone...the perfect snow...beautiful, wet and heavy so it stayed on the trees, and short lived.

I processed this with RadLab. It looks as if it is nearing dusk as the sun is setting. For me, experimentation with different processing programs is such fun.

“There are only two mistakes one can make 
along the road to truth; 
not going all the way, 
and not starting." 

~Buddha

This post is linked with "Our World Tuesday.”

Three Legged Tree

This post is linked with SOOC Sunday.

Tree in Black and White

Trees

I think that I shall never see

A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is preset

Against the sweet earth’s flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day,

And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in summer wear

A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;

Who intimately ives with the rain.

Poems are made by tools like me,

But only God can make a tree.

~ Alfred Joyce Kilmer

Sgt. Joyce Kilmer, as a member of the Fighting 69th Infantry Regiment, c.1918

Born - December 6, 1886

New Brunswick, New Jersey USA

Died - July 30, 1918

near Seringes-et-Nestles, France

Occupation - poet, journalist, editor, lecturer, soldier

Nationality - American

Period - 1909-1918

Genres - poetry, literary criticism, Catholicism

Notable Works - Main Street and Other Poems (1913)

Trees and other poems

Notable Awards - French Croix de guerre

Purple Heart Medal

This post is linked with Weekend in Black and White.

I’ve Fallen and I Can’t Get Up ~ 10-22-11

Fallen Tree in Beartown State Park ~ Droop Mt. ~ West Virginia

(Because of the canopy and thickness of the forest, there were just bits and pieces of light coming through here and here. I chose not to lighten the photograph because I wanted you to see it as I did. It was like walking in a magical Hobbit Land. I will be posting more wonderful shots during the week so stayed tuned.)

"If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer.  But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."  

~Henry David Thoreau

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Sepia Scenes ~ 5-19-11

Knarly, Knoby Tree


"What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind,
 if they do not enter into our daily lives?"
E. M. Forster


This post is linked with Sepia Scenes.

Daily Photo ~ 5-17-11

The Weeping Willow of Brownsburg Turnpike ~ Rockbridge County, VA


"It is difficult to realize how great a part of all that is cheerful and delightful in the recollections of our own life is associated with trees."
  ~Wilson Flagg

Daily Photo ~ 5-1-11

Down but Not Out

Route 56 ~ Rockbridge County, VA


"Trees are your best antiques.”
  ~Alexander Smith

Daily Photo ~ 4-25-11

Forest on Road to Panther Falls ~ Rockbridge County, VA


"Each generation takes the earth as trustees.  We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.”~ J. Sterling Morton 

Daily Photo ~ 4-19-11

Our Apple Tree in Bloom


Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces,
 I would still plant my apple tree.         
    ~Martin Luther  

This post is linked to That’s My World Tuesdays 
and 
The Creative Exchange.

Daily Photo ~ 4-12-11

Blowing with the Wind

"Spring makes its own statement, so loud and clear that the gardener seems to be only one of the instruments, not the composer." 

~Geoffrey B. Charlesworth

Macro Monday ~ 4-11-11

Raindrops in Sepia

“What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren’t supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?

~Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

This post is linked to Lisa’s Macro Monday.

Daily Photo ~ 4-9-11

My Son Dwarfed by a Tree

Graffiti Intense


"Trees are your best antiques."
  ~Alexander Smith

Weekend in Black and White ~ 4-9-11

Sunrise in Black and White


"Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other. ~ Henry David Thoreau


This post is linked with The Weekend in Black and White.

Skywatch Friday ~ 4-8-11

Peek-a-Boo Sky

This was one of those totally blue skies...no clouds anywhere...

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
Henry David Thoreau

This post is linked to Skywatch Friday. Be sure to stop by to see more beautiful skies from around the world.

Skywatch Friday ~ 2-25-11

After climbing 1600 feet, we sat down for a rest and a bite to eat. I took this picture while on my back gazing up through the leafless trees to the sky. I was pretending to be Georgia O’Keefe with a camera instead of an easel.

Stop by Skywatch Friday to see more beautiful skies from around the world.