Nature Notes (#509)~A rainy day is a special gift to readers.~ Amy Miles

Join Nature Notes-What are you or have you seen and enjoyed in nature? It can be from your own backyard, the local park, out on a hike or anywhere. What plants and animals catch your interest? Do you garden? Have you read a good book on nature?

1. Pictografio 5. A Green Ridge 9. betty – NZ
2. Sallie (Full Time- Life) 6. Forest 10. MOSSY
3. Pat — Colorado 7. orchid( Japan) 11. AUTUMNAL SUN
4. Cloudia Honolulu 8. Birgitta B.    
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The weather has been unusually cold with rain and even some wet snow. It has rained daily mostly for the past 2 weeks and it is the miserable cold rain that doesn’t invite sitting outside or taking photos but watching from the window hoping for sun. I have yet to plant my seeds for my annual bed as it just isn’t warm enough. But nature moves forward so matter how I feel about it….
 
I did catch a sky/cloud shot with an angry-looking sky….
 

Emily Dickinson

A Drop fell on the Apple Tree –
Another – on the Roof –
A Half a Dozen kissed the Eaves –
And made the Gables laugh –

A few went out to help the Brook,
That went to help the Sea –
Myself Conjectured were they Pearls –
What Necklaces could be –

The Dust replaced, in Hoisted Roads –
The Birds jocoser sung –
The Sunshine threw his Hat away –
The Bushes – spangles hung –

The Breezes brought dejected Lutes –
And bathed them in the Glee –
The Orient put out a single Flag,
And signed the Fete away –

(A drop fell on the apple tree’ is sometimes known by the title ‘Summer Shower’, although Emily Dickinson (1830-86), famously, didn’t give titles to most of her poems. (It was Dickinson’s original editors, Mabel Loomis Todd and T. W. Higginson, who gave the poem the title by which it has become most familiar.)

 

 

Have a wonderful nature-filled week! Please be safe.

7 thoughts on “Nature Notes (#509)~A rainy day is a special gift to readers.~ Amy Miles”

  2. Oh how I love your poetry , both Emily and Mary Mary over there on the right (fthat was like finding a hidden gem). I hope you do have some good books to read until your weather improves (and I do hope that is rather soon).

  3. Hi,
    We have also been having unusual weather for May. Rain and temps dropping into the 30′ at
    night. The flowers are blooming here, so they must like this kind of weather. Awesome photo
    of the sun and clouds. Have a great day!

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