Summer Job: Waiting for Bike Rentals at Century Cycles, Peninsula, Ohio.

I had trouble getting motivated and inspired to do anything today, picking up the camera and heading out into the cloudy, cool, and gray day was just the right thing. As I looked around and discovered quiet beauty and interest in so many places, I became energized. Ironically, it took what many would have considered a gloomy atmosphere to lift my feelings. Sometimes a cloudy day is just the right thing.

A bee probes a thistle flower searching for food in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Brecksville, Ohio.