Just sittin' on the front porch

It's the little things for which we need to be thankful .  Like sittin on the front porch just after a rain.  It's like the natural world wakes up again and everything has been cleaned.  click on the pic to enlarge.

I'm relaxing, pickin' a Blind Faith tune and out of the corner of my eye I spy  a little visitor 

there you are.

Now she sees mee too.

and she comes over to check me out.   I say hello to my little friend.

she goes about her business

I am thankful for the little things.

I hope she liked the music

The magic of the sunrise

Sometimes the light plays tricks on us.  Somtimes it reveals reality. Sometimes the message of the morning light is a poem of inspiration.
Sometimes it's a bit wierd .  Always differnt but somehow always the same.

I like to get up early.  As I have stated before  -  There is no place like the right time.   So I get up earlier and get there early. 
I start brewing my coffee after the cameras are set up and I wait to see the gift of a new morning.  Click to enlarge and enjoy this sequence of an ever changing but ever consistent solar event.  This particular morning was a little different but the dance of light and shadow filled me up .

rooting for the underdog

Again, this blog is about the facets of this beautiful world that I find interesting,  Even though I go to new places and journey through adventurdom,  I am trying to avoid a specific place as subject matter.  Rather I am trying to assert, by implication, a sense that facinating aspects of the world are all around us.   However, a beautiful place really brings home the visual message.   I will tell you that the following images were taken along the Blue Ridge Parkway on our annual family trip to the mountains.

We all love flowers.  But when flowers are tough enough to scratch out an existence in difficult conditions they deserve multiple layers of respect and facination.  For some reason I am forever rooting for the underdog and respectful of the Jobs of this world. 

Too many images to choose but here is a collection of  thriving underdogs.
Click on the images to enlarge.  enjoy.