A standing birds’ eye perspective of the icy landscape that was the front yard a few days ago.
Tag: landscape
Lessons
Evening begins drawing a curtain on the day. As the day ends one considers the days’ experiences and ponder the lessons to be drawn from them, ponder how to apply those lessons.
Healthier and more permanent
Here is a healthier and more permanent view to appreciate than being glued to a computer or TV screen obsessing over second by second election updates.
Appreciate
Lacking a hard freeze so far, falls’ colours have been subdued, and that’s fine. One must see into oneself more deeply to appreciate subdued colours.
Soft
I greatly enjoy the gentle, soft illumination of our the sky- and land-scape before the sun rises..
Stop and appreciate
Sometimes we hurry from web page to web page, from place to place, in a controlled environment.
It is important to stop and appreciate the real world, the world we live in every day. That is why I try to spend some time outside every day – hot or cold, wet or dry, work or home. I usually (though not always) succeed.
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. -John Ruskin, author, art critic, and social reformer (1819-1900)
Multiplied
From the few examples planted in a flower front bed a few years ago, the Purple Coneflowers have needed no care at all and multiplied in a way very pleasing to us, and to pollinators both resident and passing through. There’s a honeybee on a flower in the lower right quadrant.
