Garter snake

March 2021

If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder

Northern flicker

November 2020

I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Oak tree

October 2020

Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting, and autumn a mosaic of them all.
— Stanley Horowitz

Blackberries

September 2020

By all these lovely tokens September days are here, with summer’s best of weather and autumn’s best of cheer.
— Helen Hunt Jackson

Western pondhawk

August 2020

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.
— John Lubbock