When you are at a Birding Festival like Potholes and Prairies in North Dakota, you take the weather the day provides. It is not always ideal for birding, or, in this case…the Prairie Ramble…a walk on several sections of unbroken prairie. It is what is it is. 

And there is beauty in every day and every weather. This is the view from the Headquarters Building at Chase Lake, from under the overhanging branches on the lawn. Samsung Galaxy S4 in Rich Tone/HDR mode. Processed on the phone with PicSay Pro and then tweaked in Lightroom.

And for the Sunday Thought: Well, you have it already. There is beauty in every day, in every weather, and in every place. Part of the beauty is “out there”, and part is “in here”…in the eye that sees and the mind that frames, in the hands that hold the camera, and press the keys on the computer (in the phone or  the laptop). Beauty calls to beauty. Beauty appreciates beauty. Beauty creates beauty. And I will never believe that any beauty is, or even can be, an accident. Beauty flows from the spirit. Beauty is the spirit. The spirit is beauty. Oh, not that way! The spirit embodies as beauty. Happy Sunday!