Mariposa

 sweet sight of summer

 sommerfugl

 

butterfly

Iowa is bordered by rivers. the Missouri River is the western edge and the mighty Mississippi River is the state's eastern border and in between many  beautiful rivers and streams make up the  watersheds and create valleys and ridges and plains. Northeast Iowa carved by glaciers and the  waters left behind is a jewel of fertile soil and delightful springs and streams. this is land that creates richest farmfields available, land that grows the flowers to support the pollinators, our honeybees and butterflies, it is land with fish in streams for the eagles to feast upon. this is the heartland bursting with life and that life all depends on the precious wonder that is water

“Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.” Jane Austen

“Always be like a water. Float in the times of pain or dance like waves along the wind which touches its surface.” - Santosh Kalwar

“They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.”  Hermann Hesse

“In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.” Khalil Gibran

“Water is the driving force in nature.”  - Leonardo da Vinci

“Life in us is like the water in a river.” Henry David Thoreau

 "For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love." - Carl Sagan

  


“I mean that it is possible to be unselfish without a moral code, sophisticated without and education, and beautiful wearing a skeleton on the outside.”  Marlene Zuk
 

 

 

                   

 

  If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive.  ~American Quaker Saying


 


























 Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.  ~Bradley Millar

 “The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”  Willaim Blake

''Rotten wood cannot be carved'' Chinese proverb ~~yet wind and snow and ice and rain and insect and flora and sun have done some artful shaping on these parking lot  posts

 fields of grass, farm fields, city streets, country churches and big skies with grand horizons - IOWA