The brilliant maple tree right outside my office window in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley

A dragonfly (at lower left) takes in the beautiful waterscape at the lake

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The magnolia in my backyard glows in the light of the setting sun

Dunnfield Creek, Delaware Water Gap N.R.A.

(With apologies to Miles Davis)

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Some three- and six-fold symmetries at the core of a lovely red tulip

I love the stillness of the lake early in the morning on clear days

(The chaos enlarges well)

The star of my backyard

A lovely Creeping Mazus flower, about the size of a fingernail

Waiting on the remnants of Ida near Asheville, NC

Psalm 45:13 “All glorious is the princess within her chamber; her gown is textured with gold.”

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The Corn Speedwell, an annual flowering weed that takes over part of my front yard every spring. Each flower is about the size of a fingernail.

A Blue Dasher dragonfly holds the fort while being buzzed by a pair of Amberwings

1/200 sec exposure

The Amberwing insurgents dispatched the Blue Dasher holding the fort in last week's shot (in the comments below)

A long exposure at the storm-roiled lake

A breezy day at the lake yesterday

This reminded me of landforms in the western U.S. as seen from the air

Crocus blossoms at the base of a maple tree next to my house

The bucolic Shenandoah Valley yields to the front row of the Allegheny Mountains near Swoope, Virginia