Earth Day

One of my friends and I are going birding this morning at Codorus State Park  near Hanover PA... one of Pennsylvania's lovely green places.

Here are some photos and art and a poem for this day:

Virginia Bluebells in my garden

The Peace of Wild Things

By Wendell Berry

When despair for the world grows in me

and I wake in the night at the least sound

in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,

I go and lie down where the wood drake

rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.

I come into the peace of wild things

who do not tax their lives with forethought

of grief. I come into the presence of still water.

And I feel above me the day-blind stars

waiting with their light. For a time

I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

Violets in my garden

Bobolink  by Alexis Ross Hayes

Sedge Wren by Diane Porter

Pine Warbler  by Anne Harlan