SNOW BIRDS...

"Winter perches like a bird. Wings tucked in so the soul is heard..." -Angie Wellan-Crosby

Grackle

"In the depths there is a spring with all the water your heart is thirsty for..." -Rumi

                                         

"Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree, 

Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one,

Finch

Yet knows its boughs more silent than before..." -Edna St. Vincent Millay

Stellar Jay                                                       Hum Hum Hum waits for a new nectar feeder....

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness..." -John Keats

Towhee

                                                                                                                         Varied Thrushes

"I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how to dance..." -e.e.cummings

Junco

"It is the life of the crystal, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter is full of it..." -John Burroughs

"What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness..." -John Steinbeck

"Fresh snowfall is the closest thing to silence you can see..." -Unknown

Rona, the cat from next door in his winter coat.

"Winter dressing is all about having chic outerwear..." 

                                                         -G. Kotsiopoulos

Photographs 2026

 

BIRD BRAINS....

Over the past 19 years (gasp, YES, we've been in Campbell River, B.C. for that long!) these are some of the birds visiting my back yard.  I have a great view of the mountains, the rainforest, valley, and these birds ...

Black headed Grosbeak

"I would like to paint the way a bird sings...:" -Claude Monet

Nest gathering

"By coming and going , a bird weaves is nest.." -Ashanti

Mr. and Mrs. Finch

"You are a bird in flight, searching the skies for dreams..." 

                                                                                                                 -Haruki Murakami

White crowned Sparrow

"Tomorrow the birds will sing. Be brave. Face life..."

                         - Charlie Chaplin

Dove grey, always together...

"After the sharp-eyed Jay and the roaring Lion, peace will come on dove's gentle wing..." -Erin Hunter

Stellar Jay

"Nothing but the silence of the tree, and then he is gone.." -Mary Oliver

Annas Hum Hum

"Powered by its own life and its own motivation..." -Abdul Kalam

Flicker

"The birds of heavens dwell in the trees.." - Psalm 104:12

Grackles "Cowbirds"

"If birds glide for long periods of time, then why can't I?"_Orville Wright

Pileated Woodpecker

"A woodpecker's drilling Echoes to the mountain clouds.."

                                                   -Dakotsu lida

Towhee

"I like the idea of taking off like a bird...." -Florence Welch

baby sparrow, I believe...

"Are you my mother?" -P.D. Eastman

Varied Thrush

"Every spring I hear the Thrush singing in the glowing woods...." - Mary Oliver

Robin red breast

"The robin flew from his swinging spray of ivy on to the top of the wall and he opened his beak and sang a loud, lovely trill, merely to show off." -F. Hodgson Burnett

American goldfinch

"Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven."-Francis Beaumont

Cooper's Hawk

"Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, bright the hawk's flight on empty sky..." -Ursula K. LeGuin

                     FLY...............

Pine Siskins

"I wake up every morning, free as a bird..." - Ashley Cole

Rufous Hum Hum

"I'm youth. I'm Joy..." - James M. Barrie


                                                          Eagles

“The Eagle does not escape the storm. The Eagle simply uses the storm to lift it higher. It spreads its mighty wings and rises on the winds that bring the storm.” – Jack White

Photographs 2025 All photos taken in Campbell River, B.C.
 

The LANGUAGE of FRIENDSHIP

"Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them..." -Anna Taylor

"True friendship coms when the silence between two people is comfortable..." -David Tyson

"A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart...." 

                                                                                                - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

"Good friends are like stars. You don't always see them, but you know they're always there..." -Unkown

"The language of friendship is not words but meanings...." -Henry David Thoreau

"The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it...." 

                       -Hubert H. Humphrey

"True friendship is when two friends can walk in opposite directions, yet remain side by side..."-Josh Grayson

                                   "A friend loves at all times..." Proverbs 17:17

"It is not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters..." -Unknown

"A friend is what the heart needs all the time..." - Henry Van Dyke

"Our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that..." -Ally Condie

"Friends share laughs, memories, and inside jokes. They will always be honest and stand by your side no matter what....pick you up when you fall, and are forever a piece of your heart..." -Unknown

"To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world..." -Dr. Seuss

"A part of you has grown in me, together forever we shall be, never apart, maybe in distance, but not in heart..." -Unknown

"True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart..." 

                                                                                                                 -Helen Keller

"So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal..." -2 Corinthians 4:18

               "Do everything in love..." -1 Corinthians 16:14

Photographs 2025