Photos of Nature

Joe enjoys many outdoor activities. These are some of the photos he has taken. New photos will be added from time to time, so visit often 🙂

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♥  Winter is nature’s sleep. — H.S. Jacobs

 

 

 

♥ I’ve lived next to the lake for most of my years, yet every visit is like a new encounter.  ∼ Joe

 

 

 

 

♥  I hope I can be the autumn leaf, who looked at the sky and lived. And when it was time to leave, gracefully it knew life was a gift.” — Unknown

 

 

 

 

 

♥ Mother Nature paints a tapestry, and requires no fee.

∼ Joe

 

 

 

 

 

♥ But I miss you most of all, my darling, when autumn leaves start to fall. — Frank Sinatra

 

 

 

 

 

♥ There is one spectacle grander than the sea. That is the sky.  ∼ Victor Hugo

 

 

 

 

♥   Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.  ∼ Albert Einstein

 

 

 

 

♥      Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth. —Henry David Thoreau  

 

 

 

 

 

♥  On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.  ∼ Jules Renard

 

 

 

 

 

♥    A day at the lake is priceless. ∼ Proverb 

 

 

 

 

 

♥  It was the type of morning that brought out the best in us.

∼ Joe

 

 

 

 

 

 

♥ Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.  ∼ John Ruskin

 

 

 

 

 

  ♥   The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.  ∼ John Ruskin

 

 

 

 

 

♥The butterfly is a flying flower. The flower is a tethered butterfly. — Ponce Denis

 

 

 

 

 

♥ Some men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not the fish they are after.

∼ Thoreau

 

 

 

 

 

♥ Where ever our path takes us, we may find peace and beauty.

∼ Joe

 

 

 

 

 

♥ So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and live your life.

∼ Mary Oliver

 

 

 

 

 

 

♥ I am the lighthouse, I cannot rescue… but I can help find the way.   ∼ Author unknown

 

 

 

 

 

♥ All things seem possible in May.

∼ Edwin Way Teale

 

 

 

 

 

♥ A flower blossoms for it’s own joy.  ∼ Oscar Wilde

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

♥  Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. –Anton Chekov

 

 

 

 

♥ I am unfinished as the shoreline along the beach, meant to transcend myself again and again.

∼ Joan Anderson

 

 

 

 

 

 

♥ But where, after all, would be the poetry of the sea were there no wild waves?

∼Joshua Slocum

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

♥ Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.

∼ Kahlil Gibran

 

 

 

 

 

 

♥ The sun always shines above the clouds.

∼ Paul F. Davis

 

 

 

 

 

♥ In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.

∼ John Muir

 

 

 

 

♥ Winter’s icy realm brings a silent stark beauty.

∼ Joe

 

 

 

 

♥ The clouds hung like a watchful guardian over the icy water.

∼ Joe

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

♥ Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need to fish.

∼ Roderick Haig-Brown

 

 

 

 

 

 

♥ In the cold, winter held a poetry of it’s own.

∼ Winter’s Passage

 

 

 

 

 

 

♥ Tapestry of the heavens.

∼ Joe

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

♥ An animal’s eyes have the power to speak a great language.

∼ Martin Buber

 

 

 

 

 

♥ When I look at a lighthouse, I see my past and my future. It whispers to me, and I listen. – Scarlett Miles

 

 

 

 

 

♥ I am the daughter of Earth and Water, and the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die.

∼ Percy Bysshe Shelley

 

 

 

 

 

♥ Nature’s fury, yields no leeway to man.

∼ Joe

 

 

 

 

 

♥ The sun sneaks through the clouds, for a heavenly display on the waters.

∼ Joe

 

 

 

 

 

♥ Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.

∼ John Muir

 

 

 

 

 

♥ In all things of nature, there is something marvelous.   ∼Aristotle

 

 

 

 

 

♥  Hummingbird—with brave wings she flies. – Anonymous

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

♥ In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.  ∼ Aristotle

 

 

 

 

♥  Water is the driving force of all Nature. 

∼ Leonardo DaVinci

 

 

♥  A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.

∼ Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

 

 

 

♥ Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace amid the storm.

∼ Barbara E. West

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

♥ If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

∼ Anatole France

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

♥  In this silent, serene wilderness the weary can gain a heart-bath in perfect peace.

∼ John Muir

 

 

 

 

♥  Oh the prarie, field of gold, shares its bounty with those who tend it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Morning Kenosha sky, June 2023

 

 

 

 

 

Our harbor, late spring

 

 

 

 

 

♥ The flowering fields and meadows arrive on a fare spring breeze.

∼ Joe

 

 

 

 

 

♥ Be the sun breaking through the clouds.

∼ A.D. Posey

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Pike River, late winter as it flows through Southeast Wisconsin. Photo by JoAnn Campolo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fishing is the chance to wash one’s soul with pure air. It brings meekness and inspiration, reduces our egoism, soothes our troubles, and shames our wickedness. It is a discipline in the equality of men–for all men are equal before fish. —Herbert Hoover