Ahhh – can’t you sense it in the changing light and the shorter days. Autumn is almost here!

SaturnMoon – These two celestial bodies appear together on the evening …

Home again.
And it’s good to be here. It is good to travel, and it is good to come home. This year has been a time of travel for me. Relaxing, Educational.

I am soothed …

    The blue-brown water crept up her legs as she walked deeper into the lake. Mud oozed beneath her feet,  between her
toes; she shoved into the water. 
    The water reached her waist, and then her chin. When she could no longer touch the muddy bottom, she began to swim, holding her head up out of the water like a water snake,
as she moved her arms and legs, the way her grandmother had taught her to do. She wanted to see where she …

“The bright days of Indian summer are choice along the Potomac. Maples are crimson; sumac and dogwood, a rich dark red; gum trees and paw paw,
yellow; willow oak, a dull gold. There are fall days when the leaves have not yet fallen and when no breeze touches the trees. Then it’s as if the woods were holding their breath, lest a leaf
be lost.” — William O. Douglas, My Wilderness

Surely it is …

Fall is fast approaching and many plants – including grasses and flowers – are going to ‘seed’. The fancy growing/blooming season of the plant is
finished and now seeds are developing within the matured blooms. These seeds are the offsprings of the plant, keeping the species alive and creating future generations. Seeds come in
all sizes, shapes and colors – some of them look like alien creatures!
 
The following activity is adapted from the book: Play Lightly on …

You may not think of your backyard as a habitat for animals – but just because the large wild animals we typically think of – like deer, raccoons,
skunks, armadillos, etc. – don’t show up there doesn’t mean that animals aren’t living right under your nose. Any plot of ground can offer the food, water, shelter and space that
animals  – whether birds, insects, small mammals and even microorganisms – need to survive.

Today’s …

“We come from the land, the sky, from love and the body. From matter and creation. We are, life is, an
equation we cannot form or shape, a mystery we can’t trace in spite of our attempts to follow it back to its origin, to find out when life began, even in all our stories of when the universe
came into being, how the first people emerged. It is a failure of human intelligence and …

Ahhhhh.

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Ever wonder what the difference is between two very similar species of the animal kingdom? Here’s #3 in the series, “What’s the Difference.”