Celebration of Life

“Today is your day to paint life in bold colors; set today’s rhythm with your heart-drum; walk today’s march with courage; create today as your celebration of life.” ~ Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Soar your spirit...

“Today is your day to dance lightly with life. Soar your spirit and unfurl your joy.” ~Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Dance Lightly with life...

“Today is Your Day to Dance Lightly with Life. It Really Is.” ~ Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Vision

"Dream. Begin. Persevere." ~ Jonathan Lockwood Huie

EXCELLENCE -Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, CO

You are free to choose your own path, and to respect the freedom of others. ~ Eagle "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." ~ Aristotle

Growth...

"Growth demands a temporary surrender of security." ~ Gail Sheehy

Melody in the Symphony of Your Life...

"May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World. May you delight in Dancing Lightly With Life. May you soar on eagle wings, high above the madness of the world. May you always sing Melody in the Symphony of Your Life. May you taste, smell, and touch your dreams of a beautiful tomorrow. May your sun always shine, and your sky be forever blue." ~ Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Fearlees

"Action is our greatest weapon against fear. Left to molder, fear grows upon itself, but in the face of action, fear is left in the dust." ~ Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Soaring High....Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, CO

"The wings of hope carry us, soaring high above the driving winds of life." ~Anna Jacob

Food fight between Ferruginous Hawks and Bald Eagle

“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

Ferruginous Hawks

“The wings of transformation are born of patience and struggle.” ~Janet S. Dickens

Golden Eagle

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” ~ John Quincy Adams Majesty Strength Courage Wisdom Power Freedom

Bald Eagle in flight-Rocky Mountain Arsenal Wildlife Refuge, Commerce City, CO

"Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.” ~Pablo Picasso

Northern Harrier

"Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it." ~ Sai Baba

Great Horned Owl (Mother) ~ Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge Commerce City, CO

"Believe one who knows: you will find something greater in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters." ~ Saint Bernard de Clairvaux

Indian Roller ~ Bandhavgarh National Park, India

"I pray to the birds. I pray to the birds because I believe they will carry the messages of my heart upward. I pray to them because I believe in their existence, the way their songs begin and end each day-the invocations and benedictions of Earth. I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen." ~ Terry Tempest Williams

Great Horned Owl - Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, CO

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky is by no means a waste of time." ~ J. Lubbuc

Cooper Hawk (Immature) Colorado

"The poetry of the earth is never dead." ~ John Keats

Bald Eagle - Rocky Mountain Arsenal Wildlife Refuge, CO

"A very great vision is needed and the man who has it must follow it as the eagle seeks the deepest blue of the sky." ~Ta' Shunke Witko (Crazy Horse)

American Kestrel - Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, CO

“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Bald Eagle ~ Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, CO

"The Founding Fathers made an appropriate choice when they selected the bald eagle as the emblem of the nation. The fierce beauty and proud independence of this great bird aptly symbolizes the strength and freedom of America." ~ President John F. Kennedy

Ferruginous Hawk

"A great silent space holds all of nature in its embrace. It also holds you." ~ Eckhart Tolle

Bald Eagle Ice Fishing

"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish." ~ John Quincy Adams

Burrowing Owl

“Great leaders never look down upon those who look up to them.” ~ Gift Gugu Mona

Golden Eagle

“Soar your wings high in the heavenly sky.” ~ Lailah Gifty Akita