Tag Archives: nature

find something.

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here was what I found:

  1. a fairy house in the woods
  2. a handful of wildflowers
  3. a pine bough
  4. birds
  5. meadow grass
  6. quiet beauty
  7. a heart-shaped stone
  8. stone steps to sit on and watch the river

what have your found that you are grateful for?

 

 

 

image credit: simpleacres

yellow.

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in honor of national dandelion day

(the bees will be busy celebrating)

 

“dandelions don’t tell no lies…”

― mick jagger

 

 

 

 

 

image credit: downtown home and garden

up close.

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kinder gets up close.

 

“you can impress from a distance, but you can only impact up close”

-howard g. hendricks

see the song.

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“when it’s cold you can see the song.”

the bird appears to be sending smoke signals as it braves sub-zero temperatures in a park in the city of petrozavodsk, russia. mikhail kalinin, 34, an electric locomotive engineer spotted the chirping bird’s condensation rising up out from it’s beak with the temperature below -5 degrees celsius.

 

 

 

 

 

 

credits: Mikhail Kalinin/Solent News

 

bare.

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bare tree at rest in early winter.

“people don’t remember each tree in a park

but all of us benefit from the trees.

and in a way, artists are like trees in a park.”

-yoko ono

 

 

kerrytown courtyard, ann arbor, mi, usa

moving.

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starlings come together and move into the shape of a giant bird.

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kinders come together to see if the birds are eating the food they’ve left for them

“do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?”

-marcel marceau

 

 

 credits: guy benson, attenborough nature preserve, bbc news east midlands

a good place.

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what a lovely little place

discovered on a walk in the woods

nestled beneath the old trees

resting on a blanket

of the softest pine needles

open to all who happen by

who lives here?

“when you’re wide open, the world is a good place.”

-sharon salzberg

 

 

 

 

 

nichols arboretum, ann arbor, mi, usa. november 2018

change.

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kinders find magic in the japanese garden

 seeing things change right before them. 

 

‘change is a measure of time, and in the autumn, time seems speeded up.

what was, is not and never will be;

what is, is change.’

-edwin way teale

 

a million flowers.

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“bees do have a smell, you know,

and if they don’t they should,

for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.” 

-ray bradbury – dandelion wine

 

 

summer 2018, ann arbor

tiny houses.

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if i were really, really, ridiculously wealthy,

i wouldn’t buy a mansion,

just tiny apartments in every city i love. 

-mara wilson

 

 

 

 

ann arbor, michigan, usa – summer 2018