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