Spring Beauties!

| April 8, 2010

I don’t know about you, but once spring has sprung my my area I have a really hard time staying indoors! So we’ve headed out several times over the last week to experience nature at local parks. I have so many things to share, but for today’s post I’d like to focus in on one [...]

April Nature Noteables

| April 3, 2010

Where man sees but withered leaves, God sees sweet flowers growing. ~Albert Laighton Yet another month has past! And we have officially welcomed in springtime here in my area. April, to me, speaks of everything new! There are so many things springing up new in nature in April, at least where I live, and that [...]

Peaceful Creek Walk

| March 28, 2010

A couple of nights ago I got the pleasure of walking along our creek all by myself. I enjoy going out into nature with my children, but as I’ve said many times before it is important for me to connect on a peaceful, personal level with God’s creation too. It was towards the evening time, [...]

Mr. and Mrs. Mallard

| March 25, 2010

My oldest daughter got close-up pictures of a Mr. and Mrs. Mallard swimming around in a wetland at a park last week. Seeing this Mr. and Mrs. Mallard reminded me of the most wonderful book Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey, you may be familiar with that one. If not, be sure to check [...]

Welcome Spring!

| March 20, 2010

Today is the Spring Equinox which means that Spring has officially sprung! And this past week we’ve found lots of evidence that spring is indeed knocking on the door. Can you believe what my son caught a few days ago?! Yes, that’s a Green Frog! I couldn’t believe it! In all his years of frog-catching [...]

A Snowdrop for a Honeybee

| March 9, 2010

Today we took a nature walk at a local park to hunt for early signs of spring. If you’d like to read more about that and see all our photos, head over to my post at Shining Dawn Books! But I just had to share this photo here of a beautiful Snowdrop flower we found. [...]