SLEEPING IN THE FOREST…

I thought the earth remembered me, she

took me back so tenderly, arranging 

her dark skirts, her pockets

full of lichens and seeds. I slept

as never before, a stone

on the riverbed, nothing

between me and the white fire of the stars 

but my thoughts, and they floated

light as moths among the branches

of the perfect trees. All night

I heard the small kingdoms breathing 

around me, the insects, and the birds 

who do their work in the darkness. All night

I rose and fell, as if in water, grappling 

with a luminous doom. By morning

I had vanished at least a dozen times

into something better.

~Mary Oliver~

THERE IS NO WIFI…

 

 “There’s no WiFi in the forest, but I promise you'll find a better connection.”

~Author Unknown~

ODDS AND BODS - 8/15/24

Thank you for all your comments after my knee sprain post yesterday. I cannot put into words how very much I appreciated them. Our blogging community is a very caring and loving family.  

 I started this one on Thursday, August 8th, 2024. We had a good soaking rain, and there was a tornado watch also, but it didn’t come about.  A few trees toppled in the area.

This is our forecast from Friday, August the 8th to Saturday the 17th, 2024.

Are you a…

Or a…

I am all of the above and

   I absolutely love…

More words but this time describing…

Another rabbit and still going through my rabbit phase. When was I ever out of it?  I had many of these as a child, lots of them all at once. They provided endless comfort and companionship, along with a much loved dog and cat, Skipper and Binky. The European Robin is a sweet addition. 

Let’s be rebels!

I found the following on line, a letter sent from a teacher to all her students parents, and would like to say “Yay”, and a big thank you to all the great teachers out there, past and present. I am applauding heartily.

Always knew it!  We are all connected. 

This is today’s dream cottage.

And yes, I can see this in there, definitely a comfy place to snuggle up with a good book and looking ahead, wrapped up in a favorite blanket and sipping a cup of tea, or coffee, or hot chocolate. I find myself looking to Fall weather after a hot and humid summer, another favorite time of the year for me.

And pardon me while I go make myself an open-faced sandwich far too pretty to eat. I will just stare at it for a while, and take photos and then lunch!

This looks delicious…

But just in case you want to go in a healthier direction. 

All for now and …

and

NATURE IS….

“Nature is a wise mother.”

~Frederick William Robinson~

Under the Spell, 1870

I had a lot of fun putting together Mother Nature pictures. Here are a few of them in various applications. It was hard choosing so there are several but not all.  

I have also included several nature quotes and when I can find it, links or information about the authors. If there is none I was unsuccessful but if you my blogging friends succeed, please pass it on. I will be delighted for the help. 

“I may never traverse the halls of art, yet the dawning day is mine, and the fading twilight, and the lake at Eve, and the galaxy of the midnight sky…I may never place in a Dresden vase one single hothouse flower, but I may lave me in a field of yellow buttercups.”

~Muriel Strode (1875 - 1964), My Little Book of Prayer, 1904~

Muriel Strode (1875 - 1964) was a writer and poet, known in her heyday as “the female Walt Whitman.”  Sadly much account of her has disappeared from history, except her famous 1903 words, “I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail!” which has been widely misattributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson. Her book, “At the Roots of Grasses,” from which this poem is taken, was described as “the very rhapsody of an American soul pouring itself forth in songs of the strong.”  This paragraph came from The Outside Institute. I will try to find the link later.

“O, money can’t buy the delights of the glen,

Nor poetry sing all its charms:

There’s a solace and calm ne’er described by the pen

When were folded within Nature’s arms.”

~James Rigg, “Nutting Time,” Wild Flower Lyrics and Other Poems, 1897.

“There’s sunshine in the heart of me,

My blood sings in the breeze;

The mountains are a part of me, 

I’m fellow to the trees.”

~Robert W. Service (1874 - 1958)~

“A Rolling Stone,” 1912

“I am grateful for everything that is green.”

~Audrey Hepburn~

“I had an early run in the woods before the dew was off the grass. The moss was like velvet, and as I ran under the arches of yellow and red leaves I sang for joy, my heart was so bright and the world so beautiful.”

~Louisa May Alcott, 1845~

“Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.”

~George Washington Carver~

The last one is like the first but with a few changes. 

Thank you for stopping by.

Happy Friday everyone, and enjoy your weekend.