Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “Nature”
This was the Lord’s doing; it is marvelous in our eyes. …Psalm 118:23 (NKJ) Several years ago, on a cold autumn morning, I was walking through a field on my farm when I spotted something white on the ground. I knew it hadn’t snowed or sleeted. The sky above me was clear. I wondered if it could be litter – …
A couple of years ago when I started thinking about writing a new book, I had to come up with many things before I could put my fingers on my keyboard and start churning out words. One early glimmer of an idea was how nature can be a healing force. Another glimmer was I kept seeing or imagining two young …
Have you ever seen a spot like this on one of your plants or maybe in your yard where it looks as though somebody spit on your plant and it stuck? I spotted this bit of spittle on a plant while I was walking with the dogs sometime this week. I’ve seen the spit spots before and knew they were …
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. ~Albert Einstein Today we celebrate Earth Day for the 50th time. Earth Day asks us to stop and consider the earth, this beautiful place we live. This year with the whole world slowing down and stopping due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Earth Day seems even more important. Many of …
“Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.” ~Martin Luther Due to the COVID-19 pandemic most of us celebrated Easter differently than perhaps ever before. That was certainly true for me. I didn’t cook a big dinner for my family as I often do either on Saturday or Sunday of …
Well, I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden. ~Doris Day Spring is a time for baby animals. So it’s a great time to check out the zoos and animal parks to see the babies born each year. Here on the farm, it’s a great time to take a walk and …
Poetry is a fresh morning spiderweb telling a story of moonlight hours of weaving and waiting during a night. (Carl Sandburg) Can you see the spiderweb attached to the purple seed heads of the grass here? I went out one morning last week and there were dozens, perhaps even hundreds of webs scattered throughout the grass in the hayfield. That …
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. ~John Lubbock Two of the grandkids came to spend some time with us last week. The boys are twins and at eight, almost nine, full of energy and curiosity. They …
The last couple of weeks I’ve invited you readers to ask questions about my books, writing, or whatever. I answered most of the questions about writing last week on Wednesday. Hop back a couple of posts if you missed them. And if you’ve got more questions, I might be able to come up with more answers. Emily threw in …
A busy time here at the farm for Easter weekend. While all the family didn’t get to come, some of them did. My daughter and her husband and their German shepherd went wildflower hunting with me on Saturday morning. Actually my son-in-law was more into searching for fossils. So we found flowers blooming now and looked for evidence of long …