It’s definitely true summer outside with hot muggy weather, green everywhere, and (as I’ve heard from others) lots of mosquitoes. True Summer With all the recent rain, we had a tree fall into the pond (second time since we’ve lived here). Fortunately, unlike the big old willow tree that fell Read more…
This morning in our back yard! Oh my stars! A white tail deer and wood ducks! Morning Gifts of nature! Morning Poem, Mary Oliver Every morning the world is created. Under the orange sticks of the sun the heaped ashes of the night turn into leaves again and Read more…
Early this morning I visited the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. The tulips were mesmerizing. So much beauty everywhere I looked! Finding Beauty… EVERYWHERE!!! “The earth is full of thresholds where beauty awaits the wonder of our gaze.” ― John O’Donohue, Divine Beauty: The Invisible Embrace “THE BEAUTY OF THE EARTH IS Read more…
Whether you’re a late bloomer or an early bloomer it doesn’t matter. However you are in different aspects of your life, you are right on time. Right on Time “…tadpoles don’t begin to metamorphose into full frogs until a not-very-precise range of three to twenty-two months thereafter, meaning tadpoles may Read more…
These ranunculus flowers still intrigue me. Even as they drop their petals and wilt with age I find them beautiful. Perhaps their fading beauty reminds me of my own aging process. I no longer look as I once did nor is my body young and smooth as it once was. Read more…