things to be happy about nature

• the meadow vole in its cave
• fish gliding through the deep dark sea
• giant sunflowers
• hills of crumpled velvet
• being surrounded by lotus flowers
• trees changing a canticle in the wind
• the tent of dropping clouds
• a robin's 3,000 feathers
• going on a wind-blasted walk
• trickling rills
• sunset through the trees
• a squirrel-bird kerfuffle
• watching the grass grow
• a wild flower that grows in swamps and marshes and looks like a small blue iris