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Last of the Summer Flowers
It’s August, and it is time to reflect on the joy and pleasure that flowers give us all. I love to watch the hummingbirds and butterflies fly from blossom to blossom anointing each one with their presence.
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Baby Robins have arrived!
It is a funny feeling knowing that a mother Robin has entrusted you with her unhatched eggs! She has built a nest right up against my back door, and proceeds to lay her eggs, one at a time, up to four. Hatching takes up to a day…per egg. Once born, they need a lot of food. It’s a full time job for the parents to protect the nest, find food, and feed the babies. I felt so responsible as they…
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Lace in Nature
As I look through the pictures of my summer, I see lace everywhere! The world is so abundant with beauty… Someone once told me that if you are looking for old lace, then you must go to ancient fishing villages, as that is where the netting began! Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. ~John Muir Trees are poems that earth writes…