Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “Beauty of nature”
“All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all.” (from a hymn “All Things Bright and Beautiful” written by Cecil Frances Alexander, published in 1848) Today when I went out looking for the bird nest that my dog Frankie found a few days ago and that I dragged …
“Patience is a virtue; virtue is a grace.” — Jacob Rees-Mogg When my children were still young and often had to wait for something, such as their mother getting something done for them, I would often tell them that patience was a great virtue. I’m sure they didn’t consider the wisdom of my words, but instead wanted to shut their …
“Butterflies are self propelled flowers.” ― Robert A. Heinlein Do you love seeing butterflies in the summertime? I do. I’m always ready to yank out my phone and try to get it fired up and to the right screen fast enough to take a picture. Sometimes I succeed. Sometimes I simply take a picture of an empty flower. Butterflies are notorious …
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 …