Everyone Knows It's September

Just a Girl and Her Love of Trees

 Photo by Martin Wimmer

There Is Beauty

Summer is fading, and more than ever I need the natural beauty right now. Sometimes there just isn't time enough to walk through meadows and gather bouquets, or sit under a tree listening to the birds. Sometimes it's all you have in you to look out the window and find the beauty there, or enjoy a breeze that blows by in the moment. But this I do know for sure, that no matter where we are, there is beauty waiting to be discovered. It's everywhere. It's in the sky and clouds, the trees in your back yard, nature's songs playing in your ears, and even a glance up at a mountain can bring something unexpected. Right now, that's enough to get me through. 

 

The Earth Writes the Sky

Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.

Kahlil Gibran 

Sometimes A Cemetery

 

One of my favorite places to visit when I need a quiet moment away is a small cemetery nearby that is on the mountain, and overlooks the valley. It's a little woodland all on it's own with a variety of wildlife running through, when things get quiet, which can happen if you catch the right times. I've seen wild rabbits playing there, quail running across the road, squirrels darting fast with their bushy tails behind them, and heard birdsong in the still morning. 

Sometimes a meadow. 

Sometimes a mountain. 

Sometimes a woodland. 

Sometimes a cemetery. 

All That's Lovely

If it's lovely, you can let it in
Let it roll around and back again
Until you're thinking about
All that's lovely
Until you're thinking about
All that's lovely

~Christy Nockels

Sweetly Wild