Ansel Adams has been an inspiration to me since I studied about him and his photography during my High School Years while in Academic Decathlon.

I found this quote of his to be so true...."Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

Ansel Adams

Read more quotes by this artist at 

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/ansel_adams.html#CECYIU74dSl06KUt.99

Captivated by the butterflies. Their willingness to hang around for my photographs one word: AWESOME<E 

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Earlier I was stopped in my tracks by the beauty in this tree that I saw a squirrel that had shimmied up the it, as I came around the corner.  

So  my next grouping:

The last of the Animal pictures are those that once had freedom, but now are in the zoo....

Ode to a gigantic what appeared to be a whisky flask.

Can you guess?

<<<Yes-this occured in a powder room...literal*though I did find her creations inspiring.my grand angel is rather artistic>>>