If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere. —Laura Ingalls Wilder The next time you step into a field or walk your neighborhood, consider it a museum, a fine arboretum, a famous concert hall, and see the wildflower, hear the birdsong, feel the undulations of a west wind as you watch the sunContinue reading “A Whole World Waits”
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Birdsong
This little bird sang from time to time just outside our window; he must have been nestled in the giant Afghan pine that towers over our house, but I could not see him when I looked out, his song interrupted when I moved the curtain, he longed to be heard but cared not to beContinue reading “Birdsong”
Speaking of Trees
“They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do….around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!” — from the journals of John Muir From a man who lived under them, inspected root and limb, Continue reading “Speaking of Trees”
Brilliance
The sky was a giant wave, a crashing sea of blue, and the moon appeared to be rolling atop, a silver surfer riding along the rising curl. This universe astounds me, takes me by surprise, this grandeur of God’s creative mind, and I am humbled by the the unbound beauty, the refracted brilliance of lightContinue reading “Brilliance”
A Rare Focus
Sometimes you wait just long enough, patient to let the camera focus, allow the wind to pause, and your hand to steady before taking the shot…. This tiny bit of beauty, a blend of watercolors, lavender, orange, spring-green, each smooth line, each nuanced hue, all that define one unique flower becomes this perfect moment. IContinue reading “A Rare Focus”
Little Steward
We talked this afternoon of worlds/ That herd within the sky;/ Of all the majesty and reach/ Of stellar space, till I/ Was grateful to the ladybug/ That crawled across my dress,/ Just for its foolish speckled back,/ And for its littleness. ~Ethel A. Turner, 1921 She scurried up the side of a leaf, pausedContinue reading “Little Steward”
The Giant, Little Life
Who knew the weight, the burden for such fragile wings, and then the added bags of gold that are needed to feed the queen, the double- load that they must carry, no wonder why collective decisions are a necessary reprieve in such a swarming, crowded mass, no way to hear a solitary thought amid theContinue reading “The Giant, Little Life”
Subtle Shades
Our great desire is that you will keep on loving others as long as life lasts, in order to make certain that what you hope for will come true. — Hebrews 6:11, NLT They waited for someone to notice, so tiny and, from a distance, nondescript, a little sprinkle of white barely noticeable by evenContinue reading “Subtle Shades”
Diffusing Beauty
Maybe flowers weep, heaving sadness up through the stem and down the tender leaves, distilling living beauty into the vapor of perfume so that at least their scent will be carried into a world too busy to slow into an awareness that beauty lives everywhere. —C.L. Fisher, March 2021 Unless otherwise indicated, all content, including writingContinue reading “Diffusing Beauty”
Breathing Rhythm
They lean in, nestled down in thicket meant to protect; you would miss them, walk right past them, if not attentive, to these gentle creatures who pause and wonder why we rush past when we are meant to linger, to sway like trees, to lean in like deer, to stay in the shaded pathway andContinue reading “Breathing Rhythm”
