Entries from May 2008

Spring on the James River in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia…
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Categories: Art · Conservation · Digital Art · Environment · Hiking · Images · Nature · Photographic Art · Photography · Photos · Spiritual · Visual Arts
Tagged: Blue Ridge Mountains, Center Stage, clouds, fields, forest, James River, reflections, spring, Stormy Weather, trees, Virginia

A very tiny and beautiful wildflower that I fell in love with!
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Categories: Art · Conservation · Digital Art · Environment · Hiking · Images · Nature · Photographic Art · Photography · Photos · Spiritual · Visual Arts · Wildflowers
Tagged: beautiful, D L Ennis, flower, love, minimal, pink, plant, tiny, Tiny Dancer, wildflower

This nursing fawn was no more than 10 minutes old when this photo was taken. I got to them just in time to watch the fawn struggle to its feet for the first time…mom was still cleaning her baby as it fed for the first time. It was an amazing experience!
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Categories: Animals · Art · Conservation · Digital Art · Environment · Hiking · Images · Life · Nature · Photographic Art · Photography · Photos · Spiritual · Visual Arts · Wildlife
Tagged: Animals, Blue Ridge Mountains, D L Ennis, deer, doe, forest, Nursing Fawn, Otter Creek, reflections, whitetail, Wildlife

A couple of years ago I thought this little log house, on a back road in Amherst County, was doomed to go the way of too many other old buildings. It was in such disrepair that I feared it would be torn down to make way for a more modern home, but alas, to my delight…someone saved it.
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Categories: Architecture · Art · Back Roads · Conservation · Digital Art · Environment · HDR · Hiking · Images · Life · Nature · People · Photographic Art · Photography · Photos · Spiritual · Visual Arts
Tagged: Amherst County, back road, D L Ennis, flowers, house, Little Log House, log, log cabin, old buildings, trees forest, Virginia, woods

A lily brightens the darkest day when she offers me her smile… For my dear friend, Jill!
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Categories: Art · Conservation · Digital Art · Environment · Gardens · Images · Macro Photography · Nature · Photographic Art · Photography · Photos · Spiritual · Visual Arts
Tagged: blooms, blossoms, D L Ennis, flower, garden, lily, Miss Lily, plants

This is the time that Mountain Laurel blooms here in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, and this year it is really putting on a show!
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Categories: Art · Conservation · Digital Art · Environment · Hiking · Images · Nature · Photographic Art · Photography · Photos · Spiritual · Travel · Visual Arts · Wildflowers
Tagged: blooms, blossoms, Blue Ridge Mountains, Blue Ridge Parkway, D L Ennis, forest, Mountain Laurel, Nature, Otter Lake, reflections, trees, Virginia, water, When Mountain Laurel Blooms, wild shrubs, Wildflowers, woods

A small country church on a back road in Amherst County, Virginia…
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Categories: Architecture · Art · Back Roads · Digital Art · Environment · Images · Life · Nature · People · Photographic Art · Photography · Photos · Spiritual · Visual Arts
Tagged: Amherst County, back road, Blue Ridge Mountains, building, church, Church in the Wildwood, country, D L Ennis, dale, grass, small, trees, Virginia

Clematis growing on a fence in our garden…
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Categories: Art · Conservation · Digital Art · Environment · Gardens · Images · Nature · Photographic Art · Photography · Photos · Spiritual · Visual Arts
Tagged: blooms, blossoms, clematis, Clematis on the Fence, D L Ennis, flowers, garden, plants, vine

Wildflowers…
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Categories: Art · Conservation · Digital Art · Environment · Hiking · Images · Life · Macro Photography · Nature · Photographic Art · Photography · Photos · Spiritual · Visual Arts · Wildflowers
Tagged: blooms, blossoms, D L Ennis, flowers, plants, Sun Spots, Wildflowers

After a night of rain everything looks so clean and green…
© 2008 D L Ennis, All rights reserved.
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Categories: Art · Conservation · Digital Art · Environment · Hiking · Images · Nature · Photographic Art · Photography · Photos · Spiritual · Visual Arts
Tagged: Blue Ridge Mountains, clouds, D L Ennis, forest, James River, night of rain, reflections, Spring Clean and Green, trees, Virginia