maple tree

This magnificent old maple tree has died. I wasn't aware until I got a notice from the borough. I think back to last summer and that one morning with the red-headed woodpecker ... first time I'd seen one in that tree ... now I realize what it meant.

rain-forest

The forest in a drop of rain, beneath a flower petal.

"Come forth into the light of things. Let nature be your teacher." William Wordsworth