Our Need For Nature

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I want to talk about nature. Lately, I crave it as much as any vital necessity. I long to step out my back door, onto a porch, that overlooks a large yard. And past that is a thick forest, streams, and mountains. I see deer in the morning. The mist settles on the trees. And in the winter, I sit and gaze from a big window, at the snow falling quietly. And when I have the day off, I want to explore the depths. I want to listen to the birds and learn their ways. I want to gaze at a brilliant starry sky on a summer night. These are the things I long for. 

When I am in the great untouched vast of the earth, I feel alive. I feel God. I love communing with God in nature. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I am amazed at all he created and the genius design of all living things. 

I try to portray this love I have for nature in most of photography. Hope you enjoy.

“Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.”
― John Lubbock

“We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.” 

- Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As longs as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.”  

-Anne Frank

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more”  

-George Byron

 “Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
― Henry David Thoreau

Photos of the Week

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My beautiful daughter, Lila Juliet, is now 3 months old.

Sister Love.

Magic window light.

Me.

Raspberry muffins. Sweetened with honey, bananas, and coconut sugar.

These were so delicious we decided to make them again. Served with rice milk of course.

We've collected a lot of vintage children's books for Eliora. They have the best pictures.

Eli has a quiet time everyday to read her books.

We have a glass chandelier that casts rainbows throughout our house in the late afternoon. We love it.

Dinnertime. I love mushrooms.

We have the sweetest lemon tree in our backyard.

Tomato plants in our garden.

My husband built this planter.

I eat this breakfast almost every morning. Gluten free cereal, coconut, hemp seeds, cinnamon, and rice milk. And when available, raspberries.

We go through a ton of honey. This one is from Brazil. I've always wanted to visit Brazil, but at least I can taste it :)

Eliora was playing hopscotch with her aunt Lily.

Lila baby.

I still can't believe we have a palm tree in our backyard. It looks best with the stars behind it.

Smoothies. Cherries, peaches, peach juice, coconut milk, hemp seeds, and spinach.

I had to get a shot of Eli sleeping. So sweet!

We just painted Lila's nursery peach. It was a dark blue. It looks so much lighter.

This is our dog Charlie.

Pizza with vegan cheese.

There are a lot of these tiny peach flowers growing in our side yard. Maybe God had me in mind when he made these because my favorite colors are peach and purple.

Dandelion

Warm spring days.