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quote credit: george santayana
Apr22
earth day.
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quote credit: george santayana
Tag Archives: nature
Apr20
find something.
here was what I found:
- a fairy house in the woods
- a handful of wildflowers
- a pine bough
- birds
- meadow grass
- quiet beauty
- a heart-shaped stone
- stone steps to sit on and watch the river
what have your found that you are grateful for?
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image credit: simpleacres
Apr5
yellow.
in honor of national dandelion day
(the bees will be busy celebrating)
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“dandelions don’t tell no lies…”
― mi
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image credit: downtown home and garden
Jan28
up close.
kinder gets up close.
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“you can impress from a distance, but you can only impact up close”
-howard g. hendricks
Jan24
see the song.
“when it’s cold you can see the song.”
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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.
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credits: Mikhail Kalinin/Solent News
Jan9
bare.
bare tree at rest in early winter.
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“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
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kerrytown courtyard, ann arbor, mi, usa
Dec31
moving.
starlings come together and move into the shape of a giant bird.
kinders come together to see if the birds are eating the food they’ve left for them
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“do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?”
-marcel marceau
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credits: guy benson, attenborough nature preserve, bbc news east midlands
Nov16
a good place.
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?
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“when you’re wide open, the world is a good place.”
-sharon salzberg
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nichols arboretum, ann arbor, mi, usa. november 2018
Sep27
change.
kinders find magic in the japanese garden
seeing things change right before them.
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‘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
Sep11
a million flowers.
“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
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summer 2018, ann arbor
I didn't have my glasses on.... 