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Walk to Wonderwood Park

Posted on May 10, 2023 | 15 comments

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. -Henry Van Dyke

Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. -John Muir

I have always believed in magic. I used to run into the woods as a little kid looking for witches. But I’m not superstitious, because I m not afraid of it. I see it as something really beautiful, and I wouldn’t want to live in a world without magic. -Anya Taylor-Joy

I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments! -Joanna Baillie

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God. -George Washington Carver

The woods are a place where children can go to think. Children gravitate towards these spaces. When I was a child it was nothing more than a scrubby little overhang under a rhododendron bush, but it was incredibly important to me. -Jay Griffiths

The woods were a boon; all too often, the forest offered danger and mystery. Yet it could be liberating. If you entered that wild place on its own terms, you might be accorded wisdom. -John Burnside

There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations. -Washington Irving

Walk to Wonderwood Park

Posted on March 26, 2023 | 28 comments

No sewing happening, but lots of fun genealogy and visiting with family, so all is good!

Currently, I am blessed to be on the west side of my state visiting with my son and his fam. Double blessed, since Spring is happening here, and it is still snowing on my side of the state.

So I took my new camera out for a walk to Wonderwood Park and recorded the greening of the land!

Those that aren’t experiencing Spring, but are longing for it (It is coming!), please enjoy the blooms, the greens, and the textures through these photos!

” Blossom by blossom the spring begins.” — Algernon Charles Swinburne

“Don’t wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul.” — Luther Burbank

“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

“My favorite weather is bird chirping weather.” — Terri Guillemets

“If people did not love one another, I really don’t see what use there would be in having any spring.” — Victor Hugo

“A flower blossoms for its own joy.” — Oscar Wilde

“In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.” — Mark Twain

“Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.” — Bishop Reginald Heber

“Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.” — Virgil A. Kraft

“Spring drew on…and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that Hope traversed them at night, and left each morning brighter traces of her steps.” — Charlotte Brontë