melbourne assigned some of its trees
numbers and email addresses
so that residents could report problems
like low hanging branches.
instead, thousands of people wrote them love letters.
what would you write to them?
—
“if you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.”
-khalil gibran
—
credit: mentalfloss, the atlantic
– great news –
there are now
officially
two words
that rhyme with purple.
hirple, meaning “to limp” or “walk awkwardly,”
and
curple, an old Scots word for the hindquarters of a horse.
now about orange……
—
credits: google images, mental floss magazine
yes,
perhaps my cat grass
has gotten a little out of hand
and may be better suited
for a jungle cat rather than a house cat….
—
“and i’d like to give my love to everybody,
and let them know that
the grass may look greener on the other side,
but believe me, it’s just as hard to cut.”
-little richard
“nature always wears the colors of the spirit.”
-ralph waldo emerson
—
glen lake, michigan, usa – august 2016
glen outdoor school
ages 6 months – 6 years
ireland’s first outdoor school
80% + of day spent outdoors
outdoor math
nature provides their learning opportunities
and
what a pleasure it was
to talk to them and their teachers
and
to watch them all learning
from nature
and each other
with such a natural joy.
—
“in nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy:
a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace.”
― richard louv – Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
—
letterkenny, glenswilly, county donegal, ireland
just at dusk
fireflies
flit
and
a
gaggle of grandies
trying to catch up with them
fly.
—
“i began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.
he taught me that if you are interested in something,
no matter what it is,
go at it at full speed ahead.
embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it
and above all
become passionate about it.
lukewarm is no good.
hot is no good either.
white hot and passionate is the only thing to be.”
― roald dahl, My Uncle Oswald
“what is a scientist after all?
it is a curious man looking through a keyhole,
the keyhole of nature,
trying to know what’s going on.”
-jacques cousteau
rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth;
without rain, there would be no life.
-john updike
the little bee whisperer
of last summer
is back.
at age 6
grandson f
tends to the hive
happily
watching and wondering and learning.
—
the happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist.
for man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
– jacques yves cousteau
out walking with the kinders
we happened upon
a white swan
happy
and
in between seasons.
the same as us.
I didn't have my glasses on.... 