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