"We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.  There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open."

~ Jawaharlal Nehru (Nov., 1889 - May, 1964) first Prime Minister of independent India.

Photo:  www.ruthvenpark.ca , Indiana, Spring 2012 lbw

Today is Arbor Day, 2013

www.arborday.org

"I love to plant a growing thing...
A tree, a shrub, a vine...
And know it will for years and years
Keep growing there, a sign
To children who come after me
That someone thought of them,
And left behind a living friend
More precious than a gem."

~ Betty Foust Smith

Haldimand Stewardship Council will be assisting with a tree planting ceremony on Wednesday, May 1, 2013, in the City of Burlington.

Thought for Today ~

"Blessed is the individual who is so busy that he has no time to worry in the daytime, and has kept himself so occupied that he finds himself too sleepy to worry at night."

~ Treasured quotation from our Mum, Reta Melick (nee Turnbull, 1921 - 2002) b. East Seneca, Haldimand County

The Way Through the Woods

~ by Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)

THEY shut the road through the woods
Seventy years ago.
Weather and rain have undone it again,
And now you would never know
There was once a road through the woods
Before they planted the trees.
It is underneath the coppice and heath,
And the thin anemones.
Only the keeper sees
That, where the ring-dove broods,
And the badgers roll at ease,
There was once a road through the woods.

Yet, if you enter the woods
Of a summer evening late,
When the night-air cools on the trout-ringed pools
Where the otter whistles his mate,
(They fear not men in the woods,
Because they see so few.)
You will hear the beat of a horse's feet,
And the swish of a skirt in the dew,
Steadily cantering through
The misty solitudes,
As though they perfectly knew
The old lost road through the woods.
But there is no road through the woods.

Ruthven Indiana

(Thank you to Laurie Miller of Caledonia who saw the Indiana photo and drew our attention to the Rudyard Kipling poem.  Perfect, Laurie.)

www.ruthvenpark.ca

Scilla ~ Bluebell Family

"While Earth herself is adorning...
In a thousand valleys far and wide,
Fresh flowers: while the sun shines warm..."

~ William Wordsworth, ODE (April 7, 1770 - April 23, 1850)  English romantic poet.

Smile for Today ~

Simple and fresh and far from winter's close emerging,
As if no artifice of fashion, business, politics had ever been,
Forth from its sunny nook of shelter'd grass ~
innocent, golden, calm as the dawn,
The spring's first dandelion shows its trustful face.

~ Walt Whitman (May 31, 1819 - March 26, 1892)  American poet, journalist, humourist.

Photo files lbw:  Indiana, Haldimand County

Today is Earth Day ~

Indiana Haldimand County

"You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns."

~ Henry D. Thoreau, Walden (1817 - 1862) American author, naturalist.