things to be happy about nature
- viewing the last foliage
- a blazing sun
- four-leaf clovers, more prevalent in the spring before the first mowing
- the sky portending a cold front
- nature's small pleasures that in aggregate make life worth enduring
- the seashore being a most advantageous point from which to comprehend the world
- cheetah cubs
- the most biologically intense place on earth, the Corcovado National Park in Costa Rica
- small tidal pools in which you can see bright green moss and species of marine life
- a flight of white pelicans soaring in a delicious unison against the sunrise
- the Ozark mountains with autumn colors
- huge sprays of bamboo shoots
- the naked eye seeing stars of the sixth magnitude
- the air we breathe