wildlife – Page 32 – Life Is Full of Sweet Spots

“The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings.” — Plato * * * Pelican at rest — Watercolor painting by Mary O’Connor © 2018 Click here to see more of Mary’s wildlife paintings and pet portraits.

Standing Tall

April 5, 2018

Acceptance

March 29, 2018

“You can look in the mirror and find a million things wrong with yourself. Or you can look in the mirror and think, ‘I feel good, I have my health, and I’m so blessed.’ That’s the way I choose to look at it.” — Isla Fisher * * * Perception of beauty — Iguana … More Acceptance

Stalking

March 26, 2018

“…in nature there are predators and prey. The hunters and the hunted. The heartbreakers and the heartbroken. The beautiful thing is that Nature lets us choose which we want to be, most people never make the choice though because they don’t even know they have it.” — Lynn Weingarten * * * Green … More Stalking

Underground

March 22, 2018

Conversation

March 8, 2018

“The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.” — William Temple * * * “Mac and Caw” — Acrylics painting of two Macaws by Mary O’Connor © 2018 View more in Gallery of Our Natural World

Loss

February 26, 2018

“I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone – you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.” — Alyson Noel “Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give but cannot. All of … More Loss

Perspective

February 22, 2018

“When you’re in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things to. That’s the consolation of philosophy.” — David Cronenberg * * * Which way shall I go? … More Perspective