An Ode to Milkweed
I’ve been walking through milkweed patches, flipping over leaves, looking for chew marks, searching for eggs. So far, nada…no Monarch...
I’ve been walking through milkweed patches, flipping over leaves, looking for chew marks, searching for eggs. So far, nada…no Monarch...
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. – James Russell Lowell
I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape – the loneliness of it, the...
What good is a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on? – Henry David Thoreau
If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being. – Emerson
To see the world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower, Hold infinity in the palm...
With all things and in all things, we are relatives. – Sioux Proverb
To make an apple pie from scratch, we must first invent the universe. – Carl Sagan
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a harmony in autumn, and a lustre in its sky. – Percy Bysshe Shelley
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