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

There Comes a Time

 There comes a time when the grass in the meadow becomes long, too long, and it flows like a river in the summer wind. That is when I want to travel the meadow floor the most, with the wind catching my hair in wild tangles, and flowing through the grass impulsively. The soft touch of the breeze lingering on my face. It's like being in another time and place, where you can forget everything else, and just live in that luxurious moment. Barefoot and without plaits is best. 

And forget not 

that the earth delights 

to feel your bare feet 

and the winds long to 

play with your hair  

~Khalil Gibran