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Nature's Inspiration Movie

http://www.flickspire.com/m/HealthierL433/NaturesInspiration -- Nature's Inspiration Movie: The photographs in this short video are from award-winning photographer, Ken Jenkins, and they are breathtaking. However, this video is much more than beautiful photographs! Peggy Anderson has compiled beautiful quotations from the likes of Emerson, Thoreau, and many others that truly capture the beauty of nature and solitude. Absolute must watch for nature lovers.

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Happy Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and Happy New Year

I saw this beauty on a tree in the backyard. I wonder what it was eating. It took quite a while to eat that -- whatever it was holding in between its paws. I'm linking with Nature Notes and Our World Tuesday.


And then this thief. She or He is an expert acrobat, swings upside-down to grab sunflower-seeds from the bird-feeder and eat. It's sad to see how hard they work to get all their food; and, all we do is destroy whatever little food-source they might have.

I first saw this poem in Michelle's Blog. It resonates with me so much that I decided to steal it from her blog and put in my blog as well. With this poem, I wish all of you a Happy Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a Very Happy and Prosperous New Year. May the forces of this wide universe, inspiring nature, majestic animals and calming gardens be with all of us.
The Peace of Wild Things
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
By Poet and Environmentalist Wendell Berry

10 comments:

  1. A beautiful post for Christmas..... You can make collages with googles Picassa.... Happy Holidays.. Michelle

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  2. Nature has a wonderful way to help you find the calm from within and see things more clearly. Merry Christmas to you and yours.

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  3. The squirrels have their own feeder and they all look fat and happy now...Michelle

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  4. I hope this little thief is sated. I always try to feed somehow birds and little animals anyway I can. So there are still people that try to take care but not harm.

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  5. Certain squirrels in our garden we have given the title of Commando Squirrel. They inspire a mix of admiration and exasperation. Happy holidays to you!

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  6. A beautiful post ... I am still catching up after travel and missed that poem at Michellesx...I'm so glad you reposted it.... We need that wisdom and peace right about now.

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  7. Lovely post,Happy end Xmas week,
    Best regard from Belgium

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  8. Wonderfull Xmas tree, Happy days untill New Year,
    Best regard from Belgium

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  9. Pretty poem! Happy Monday, enjoy your new week! I wish you all the best in 2016, Happy New Year!

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  10. When you feed the birds, the squirrels are happy too. ;)

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