I'm here to add to the collective pot of things that might make someone's day a tiny bit better.

I have no rules about flickr. Add me or not, comment or not. If I added you it's because I like your work or I like you or I was in a good mood that day.

This obsession began in July, 2004 when I got my first digital camera.

I haven't geotagged all (okay, most) of my pictures, but sometimes the location is a tag.

Some places where my shots are used:

Photo of Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant:

www.anythingradioactive.com/Nuggstuff.htm

www.wnyc.org/articles/its-free-country/2011/jun/03/future...

The Bee and the Butterfly:

utasw.com/category/priroda

A jail in Rhode Island

meganotooleeportfolio.wordpress.com/

One of 16 Train Station Photos that Will Inspire You

www.photoguides.net/16-train-station-photos-that-will-ins...

and the same shot in a blog post entitled Art Where You Least Expect It

www.cruzine.com/2011/03/25/pipes/

Sand Wasps with Stink Bug prey on the Meadowlands Blog

www.meadowblog.net/2012/08/sand-wasps-as-predators.html

This picture of the caterpillar of the Wavy Lined Emerald Moth also known as the Camouflaged Looper is all over the place including a Swiss women's fashion magazine of all places but most recently was featured here:

www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/photos/15-amazingly-dec...

Another shot of three of the same critter as above is used here:

conservationreport.wordpress.com/2011/09/03/can-you-see-m...

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,

There is a rapture on the lonely shore,

There is society, where none intrudes,

By the deep sea, and music in its roar:

I love not man the less, but Nature more,

From these our interviews, in which I steal

From all I may be, or have been before,

To mingle with the Universe, and feel

What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal.

-- Lord Byron

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.

-- Robert Frost

The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.

-- John Muir

"I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order".

-John Burroughs

An' I don't give a damn 'bout my reputation

Never said I wanted to improve my station

An' I'm only doin' good

When I'm havin' fun

An' I don't have to please no one

An' I don't really care

If ya think I'm strange

I ain't gonna change

An' I'm never gonna care

'Bout my bad reputation

Oh no, not me

- - Joan Jett