birdsong

photos from the state botanical garden of georgia

“Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in the haystack of light. It was what I was born for – to look, to listen, to lose myself inside this soft world – to instruct myself over and over in joy, and acclamation. Nor am I talking about the exceptional, the fearful, the dreadful, the very extravagant – but of the ordinary, the common, the very drab, the daily presentations. Oh, good scholar, I say to myself, how can you help but grow wise with such teachings as these – the untrimmable light of the world, the ocean’s shine, the prayers that are made out of grass?”
― Mary Oliver

Sundays are special. I often find myself here. I sit and feel the sun on my face. I walk around aimlessly, enamored by the beauty of it all.

The plants, the birds, the wind- it all creates a gentle reminder to slow down.