“at last came the golden month of the wild folk–
honey-sweet May, when the birds come back,
and the flowers come out,
and the air is full of the sunrise scents and songs of the dawning year.”
― samuel scoville jr.
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image credit: proteus, ‘the elfin maypole float, 1887
were we looking at the frog or was the frog looking at us?
“it’s useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.”
-terry pratchett
public art found in the dequindre cut, detroit, mi.
(artist unknown)
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science is about unravelling nature.
n. r. narayana murth
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— wendell berry
aviary water ripples
butterfly lands
penguins free swim
ibises play
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all on a sunday picnic at the zoo with the family.
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“color is the fruit of life.”
-guillaume apollinaire
maybe the pool opens when the last of the snow vanishes?
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“nature is never static. it is always changing. everything is in a constant state of flux.
nothing endures. everything is in the process of either coming into being or expiring.”
― kilroy j. oldster
when looking at the trees on the kinder playground
it’s easy to see how tall the little people are
the green does not dare begin until it is
above and safely out of the reach of their tiny hands
even if they are standing on tippy toes
pulling, climbing, bending, picking, snapping
the trees do the math and live to tell the tale.
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“trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.”
-zora neale hurston
at the nature center for grandie v’s 6th birthday celebration
the scientist helps us to measure our wingspans
before we take a stroll outside to find this beautiful bird
rescued and healing a broken wing
whose wingspan we hope will return one day
and we are grateful to have our wings.
“happiness makes up for height for what it lacks in length.”
-robert frost
“every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.”
-ellis peters
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image credit: google images
I didn't have my glasses on.... 