Alicia Salmon Photos

Summertime =🦋🦋.
Love watching butterflies flutter around!

Stage one and stage two. Lycorma Delicatula. Spotted Lantern fly.

The beautiful details of nature.

Taking another look at this beautiful waterfall!

Torc Waterfall is some 70 feet high and is fed by the Owengarriff river. Its name comes from the Irish translation for a ‘wild boar’ and has 2 legends associated with it. The first is of a man who was cursed by the devil and was transformed into a wild boar every night. When the secret was revealed by a local farmer, the man burst into flames and disappeared into The Devil’s Punchbowl where the river emerged to hide the entrance to his cave behind the waterfall. The second tells the story of how the legendary Irish warrior, Fionn MacCumhaill, killed a magical boar on Torc mountain with his golden spear! Back in reality – The geology of this area is also interesting as the river flows over the Muckross to Millstreet Fault Line. The top of this mountain is 400 million-year-old Devonian Old Red Sandstone, however, the base around Muckross Lake is about 100 million years younger consisting of carboniferous limestone. At some stage, after the limestone was deposited, a period of tectonic-plate collision occurred and the land under Torc Mountain was lifted 3,000 meters, re-exposing the underlying older sandstone.

“Nature is the purest portal to inner-peace.” - Angie Weiland Crosby

Beautiful Kenmare Bay with a view of Carrauntoohil Mountain the highest peak in Ireland. In County Kerry, part of the McGillicuddy’s Reeks Range.

Allograpta- Hoverfly

The beauty of details 🌼🌸🌼🌸

Such fascinating creatures! Why do they have hairs in their eyes?!? 🐝🐝.

Love watching my garden start to bloom. 🌸🌼🌸🌼🌸🌼

The view of mountains across Muckross Lake in Killarney National Park.

Oxeye Daisy. Can be used to make tea, young buds can be marinated and used similar to capers. Since 1987 it has been the National flower of Denmark.

The beauty after the rain. 🌧️🌧️🌧️.

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

Saint Francis de Sales
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Looking through shots from Ireland. Liked this frame within a frame. Muckross Abbey a Franciscan Friary built in 1448.

Golden fields during Golden Hour. ☀️🌞🌾.

Looking back I through my past travels. Loved our stay in Shenandoah Junction. Beautiful sunsets.

The simple beauty of a rose. 🌹🌹🌹
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A Goldenrod Soldier Beetle enjoying the view from a Daisy. 🌼
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Enjoyed a visit to Meadowcroft yesterday. So much history here and at the Rock Shelter. Glad the Miller family saved this history.
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Moth Mullien - It is thought to derive its common name Moth Mullein from the stamens resemblance to the antennae of moths. But another source says that it was used as an insect repellent to safeguard clothing from being eaten by moths.

Dew in the morning

Sometimes a change in perspective can be just the thing.

“Just like a skill or any art, We cannot possess hope without practicing it. It is the most fundamental craft we demand of ourselves.”
— Amanda Gorman

“What are you looking at?”
A lone duck enjoying the fountain at Point State Park.
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“There is always a light, if only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it.”
— Amanda Gorman

The Embrace - The artwork is a permanent monument representing the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King’s love and powerful presence in Boston, a time that helped shape their approach to an equitable society..

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama.

Black beauty Elderberry.

Stop and inhale! Can’t you just imagine how good this peony smells!! .