I hadn’t thought about my old childhood friend in a long time. It’s been almost 60 years since we last hung out together. Over the years,...

Flowers have a lilting lyrical quality to them. They have no voice, and yet they sing. They sing of life and wonder and beauty, the...

SHHHHHHHHHH! Let your mind go quiet. Listen. When we do, we can tap into a source of creativity that’s far beyond anything we can...

I've always wondered: why do so many people want others to be exactly like them? They won’t be happy unless everyone else looks like...

As I photographed this beach in Southern California, I was mesmerized by the water pouring into the inlet and then withdrawing back into...

Two weeks ago, on a cold January day in Charlotte, our granddaughter Lily spotted a colorful surprise. As we walked down our front steps,...

With the holidays in full swing and 2023 drawing to a close, I wanted to take a moment to thank you for visiting Paul's Reflections. The...

When I saw these leaves on a cracked sidewalk, I thought the divided pavement looked like countries on a map. I wondered: Do the leaves...

An interesting thing happened when I photographed Hickory Nut Falls at Chimney Rock State Park last week. This 404-foot falls, located...

One of my earliest childhood memories is walking through fallen leaves on a crisp autumn day. I was shuffling my feet through the dry...

At the end of our Nova Scotia trip, we drove along the coast of Cape Breton Island, looking to find a scenic spot to catch a sunset. I...

On a wooded trail in Nova Scotia I noticed the roots of these trees, intertwined as if they were holding hands. It was a tender, intimate...

At the Hopewell Rocks in New Brunswick, we witnessed a remarkable phenomenon: the highest tides in the world, and a massive difference...

Infinite vastness, obscured by myriad things like the rocks that seem so real but only serve to block our view of the mysteries beyond....

When I visit art museums, I occasionally scratch my head at some of the pieces on display. Certain works just don't appeal to me. When I...

If you've ever got up early hoping to catch a golden sunrise, you know that it's an elusive thing. If the morning is too overcast, the...

This is an incident that baffled me. Bonnie and I had just walked down a steep flight of wooden steps to reach this waterfall in Nova...

It was raining that morning in Peggy’s Cove, Nova Scotia. I don’t mean drizzling. I mean really raining – coming down in torrents, with...

If you want to see how quickly and continually life changes every instant of every day, look closely at these three photos of a...

We’ve returned from our trip to Nova Scotia, and what a trip it was. We saw spectacular falls roaring with water after a heavy rain;...