Photo revisited....

This is one of my favorite days of shooting photos...I remember it clearly..Jan. this year me and my three snots on the river bank enjoying nothing more than the simple goodness around us...Everything seemed so right and I got a few good shots...Here are a few of them but how it came out I was more than pleased with...I call it "All the heavens in a river's puddle"






(I don't know why, I have no clue. When I am alone in nature... My thoughts just lead to you)

Oh the beauty of it......

Me..In the river again....If you don't know the water this time of year is cold....Its cold all year but this time of year frigid comes to mind...I can not tell you how many times I question my sanity...I am usually thigh deep in the water when it hits me...What the #3!! are you doing!? I mean why are you out here freezing your rear? Getting all dirty? Traipsing through the woods alone like some mad woman with no clue...
Then I look up and it hits me.. Its almost painful to look at...My heart catches in my throat and threatens to choke me, and I know I am blessed...To see what I see..My camera can not even show you...I get home look at my pictures and I am disappointed it can not capture enough of the beauty in what I see...
I catch myself getting all teary eyed this time of year...Well OK most times of year but this time of year when nature puts on her show and paints the world in the most vivid colors I drive around like some love sick fool...I swear one of these days I am going to forget I am driving and wind up in the ditch...She captures me, drags me in, calls me...I can not leave my house...I will spot a tree that is aglow with the sunlight and slow down...Then I catch some sight of a backroad and I have to take it...I wind up in the mtns somewhere for hrs on end when I was just running a small errand...I loose track of time and there is never enough of it in the day...

I hate heading back to "reality" more times than not...



I am just glad that my truck is there waiting with a crazy hot heater to bring me back from hypothermia when I crawl/climb back up to it...

Oh look its a leg...



no bare toes this time...too cold for that mess.

I WAS HERE!



Up in the middle (yes! up and in the middle) of nowhere along an unsuspecting creek in the N. Ga mtns lies a tiny bit of heaven all secluded...















This is "my" field...I know there is a treasure waiting to be found in it...













(I don't know why, I have no clue. When I am alone in nature... My thoughts just lead to you)

Falls Beautiful Bounty....

I love all times of year but Mother nature seems to pull out all the bells and whistles for fall...My thinking on this is its her way of saying I am going to sleep for a spell but just so you remember I will put on a show for you..I will not go quietly into the night but will burst forth with all the beauty and splendor I have left in my veins so that you should anticipate my awakening in the Spring and will look for signs I am back in every step you take. No matter how hard we try we can not match the beauty of our natural surroundings.
I find a peace and an energy every time I let myself be graced and enticed by the smallest leaf or stone and overwhelmed by the amazing scenes in my own back yard...Its more of a privilege to me, a humbling to something more beautiful than I can comprehend, a gift even to be able to take the time and see what is right in front of me if I open my eyes for a moment. When I am weak I turn to nature for peace of mind, the quiet beauty to lift my spirit and restore my heart. Nature nourishes all your senses if you slow down, focus on your surroundings.
You can find yourself in a quiet moment surrounded by her beauty when you did not even know you were lost., and your questions can be answered by just getting lost and being still. In those moments alone in nature I feel truly blessed to be alive, no matter what crazy world awaits me when I return. I find it hard to express the real meaning of what it means to me...I guess its a love affair of sorts...I take the time to notice her beauty and in doing so I find peace of mind and renewal on an unparalleled level...Enjoy It! That is what life is about..




Falls love.















Not my tent but wish it was...Looks awesome to me...









































(I don't know why, I have no clue. When I am alone in nature my thoughts just lead to you)