"Got School?"

Patrick County, Va




“Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow."
~ Jeff Valdez

"Double Arches"

Graylyn Estates.
Winston-Salem, NC




“Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth."
~Soren Kierkegaard

"Brighter Days Ahead"

Blue Ridge Pky, Va.





“A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition."
~ William Arthur Ward

"Bill's Place"

Local Farm,
Pfafftown, NC





“Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery."
~Bill Watterson

"A Rockwell Morning"

Wait Chapel,

Wake Forest

University,

Winston-Salem, NC

"Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day."

~Helen Steiner Rice

"Merry Christmas"

Salem College,
Old Salem,
Winston-Salem, NC







“The Christmas spirit that goes out with the dried-up Christmas tree is just as worthless"

"A Pisgah Foundation"

"Log Building at
Pisgah National Forest,
N.C.



A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
~ David Brinkley

"Hatteras Bungalow"

Outer Banks,
Kitty Hawk, NC




“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."
~ Mahatma Gandhi

"Remember When"

Private Farm,
Fletcher, NC





“It was cold out there, bitter, biting, cutting, piercing, hyperborean, marmoreal cold, and there were all these Minnesotans running around outdoors, happy as lambs in the spring."
~Charles Kuralt

"A Touch of Parkway

Blue Ridge Pky,
North Carolina




After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.
~William R. Alger

"Morning on the Creek"

Babcock State Park,

Clifftop, WV

“All material in nature, the mountains and the streams and the air and we, are made of Light which has been spent, and this crumpled mass called material casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to Light

~Louis Kahn

"A Time & Place"

Old Salem,

Winston-Salem, NC

“We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home."

'Drive Home"

Private Entrance,
Winston-Salem, NC


Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
~ Robert Frost

"Just Like Home"

Private Farm,
Blue Ridge Pky, NC




“You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm."
~Cleveland Amory

"A Different Setting"

Old Salem,
Winston-Salem, NC

“There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October"
~Nathaniel Hawthorne

"The Gathering"

Winston-Salem, NC



“Nature often holds up a mirror so we can see more clearly the ongoing processes of growth, renewal, and transformation in our lives."

"Autumn Climb"

Salem Lake Trail,
Winston-Salem, NC





“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever."
~ Lance Armstrong

"Salem Moods"

Old Salem,

Winston-Salem, NC

“False friends are worse than open enemies"

"Autumn's Path"

Old Railroad Tracks.
Old Salem,
Winston-Salem. NC


“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."
~ Anne Bradstreet

'The Photographer"

Photographer,
Babcock State Park,
Clifftop, WV



“Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world."
~ Arnold Newman