things to be happy about nature

• the fauna of a small habitat
• kindergarten classes in the woods
• a slow, steady seeping saturating rain
• the cidery tang of windfall apples in the country air
• coves and headlands washed and battered by a cold Atlantic
• the forest morning
• Elizabeth Park's flowers in West Hartford, Connecticut
• lines of volcanic infusion through an expanse of rock
• walls of ice, crystals packed so densely that they reflect only short blue wavelengths of light
• the small scope of human doings in the richness of nature and vast sprawl of the universe
• the warmth of a day lily
• a harvest moon
• moss and damp mulch
• mountain butterflies