things to be happy about nature

• beans beginning to pod
• watching a lion climb a tree
• watching cacti bloom
• not taking nature for granted
• light, feathery astilbe
• white clouds suspended in a blue sky
• original stands of timber
• seed pods and crisp oak leaves
• the icy green sky at the horizon, pink/blue above (skim-milk blue) and near the zenith, a half-moon
• watching a colt find its legs
• tulip and daffodil sprouts
• seeing the acorn and envisioning the forest of oak trees
• when squirrels, autumn-fat and winter-silver, come nosing over the ground, then stop and begin to dig
• trees just being