Just Random Thoughts

I don’t have much to offer today along the lines of one cohesive train of thought, but rather random thoughts and pictures, because that’s the way life is sometimes.

I hardly noticed this little creature because he blends in so well with his surroundings.  I’ve noticed that different plants draw different creatures into the garden, which is one reason I’m so fond of letting wild things grow. 

I stop and wonder how often in reality I don’t notice little spots of life around me — you know, the important things that really should get my attention but don’t because I’m zooming quickly by and they get lost in their surroundings: my busy existence.

Kitties growing up.  I know we don’t really need three more kittens, but it’s a wonder to watch them nurse and grow and jump and play.  It’s a wonder to see something grow up.  I stop with my tea cup in hand and look out at them for a little respite from bill paying and appointment making.

Another bright spider — a new one to me, that the Cassia has brought in.

This kitty stops playing for just a moment to look at his mommy.  Yes, we think this kitty is a male.

A Thought On CM – Nature

Why are we so instinctively drawn to nature?  Is it good to let children get too far away from nature?

All day long, every day, Laura and Mary were busy. When the dishes were washed and the beds made, there was always plenty to do and to see and to listen to.

They hunted for birds’ nests in the tall grass…

In the tall grass they lay still as mice and watched flocks of little prairie chickens running and pecking around their anxiously clucking, smooth brown mothers.  They watched striped snakes rippling between the grass stems or lying so still that only their tiny flickering tongues and glittering eyes showed that they were alive.

And sometimes there’d be a great gray rabbit, so still in the lights and shadows of a grass clump that you were near enough to touch him…  ~Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House on the Prairie

I’m looking forward to even more nature journaling, flower preserving, and herbal work this coming school year.  We’ll sketch and draw, press and label, and make plenty of projects in the CM way.