Nature is both beautiful and healing...🌲🌸🦋

[Ggrand]

Hello Everyone....

I love nature and I find it very helpful in helping me in healing way..when I’m not in a good head space...I was wondering if others feel the same and am hoping that you might share your piece of nature, whether it’s a small patch of grass in your back yard..somewhere that you drive to, to just relax, somewhere close to you that you walk amongst...and if you have really taken the time to listen, watch, feel, smell, the wonders all around us..

I love nature..the trees, flowers, creatures both big and small, it’s my solitude place, a place I go to when things are getting to hard for me..

I am lucky, I have this huge gumtree which I found out about recently...
It was planted around 70 years ago by a local here when she was a little girl, and living in the house I’m now living in...About 5 years after she planted it, a strong wind with rain blew it down....A few of the locals saw her trying to stand it up to replant it...and they came to help her...and successfully managed to replant it....Today it’s easily over 60feet tall and just as wide, the trunk of the tree would need 4 people to hug it by joining hands..
The tree stands in front of my place and in front of the paddocks across from me..which the owner has some Angus cows, which love to lay under the tree....Birds are everywhere here, and a few use the tree as their home..

I sit outside for hours sometimes, watching the birds come and go for food and water I have supplied for them in bird feeders and bird baths....It’s a beautiful and peaceful way to relax watching and feeling what Mother Nature has provided for us...
For me it’s both calming and healing...

Do you have a piece of nature around you...and how does it make you feel when you take the time to just look and take in the wonder of it all....

We would love to hear about how nature helps you...and do you find that it can be healing for your soul...

Kind and caring thoughts everyone..

Grandy..

[white knight]

Great thread Grandy

Someone once told me..."if you haven't seen a flower bloom from beginning to end...you haven't lived"

It's similar to Maharaji sunset YouTube (Google those 3 words) . In his teachings to climb a hill and watch the sun...set. it takes around 2 hours.

For me I have 2 worlds, the human world and the animal/plant world. The human world I must monitor, contain it, escape from it but always be included in it (as a means of survival)

The natural world needs no rules, no boundaries just admiration.

TonyWK

[white knight]

CORNER OF THE BUSH

Giving society a gentle push

arrived at the corner of the bush

moved fast lane aside for harmony

closer to ones own destiny



Shadow moon shines infinitely

night owls a symphony

sitting, arms in Buddha pose

allow a spider to dance upon your nose



Furry paws best caring hand

no mask needed in wonderland

no internet, no dog, no bone

all the stones are never thrown



In the corner of the bush

give society a gentle push

blending bark with your skin

protesters nearby - but they wont win



Children nearby 'hide and seek'

we all end up a compost heap

fun and more fun echoes around

some life lived- some never found



Further and further into branches and leaves

like us- do animals grieve?

bush has no need for duck and weave

only matter- what you believe



Hark the bells of sanity

no mirror for your vanity

cyber rocks thrown from a cowards lair

I'm in the bush- no quarry there



Trip over plastic traps

cradle broken bird in your lap

send society off with that push

from the corner of the bush.......

WK

[Guest_1643]

"no mask needed in wonderland" just broke my heart in the best way - love it WK, thank you

[AliasKind]

Ggrand - what a marvellous thread, simply poetic your words they reminded me of fairies doing ballet happily around the beauty of the flowers'.

I can't tell you how many hours I have watched and sought out nature to restore inner-centeredness and find solace. It is, in fact, one of my favourite things to do and you just helped me realise this. I find companionship in nature and have quite a few 'that just made my day' moments because of it. I was fortunate enough to see a magnificent grey owl, wings outstretch on the ascent, in the glaring light of the headlights flying up from the bitumen - majestical, just one priceless moment I'm thankful I got to witness.

Keen to hear the next moment in nature x

[Ggrand]

Hello Everyone...

Im sorry it’s taken a while for me to return here...

Tony your poem is so beautiful, as I was reading it had fears in my eyes...I just wrote it out in book..I’ve called “The wisdom of words in poetry”......

AliasKind..That’s amazing seeing an owl..with out stretch wings, flying towards the heavens...I have seen them around here..but only ever sitting on the top of a telegraph pole...My heart warmed..when I read that you were fortunate to witness such a beautiful bird in flight...

My friend Betty..lives around 4 minute walk from mine..she has a drain out the front of her home...No gutters here..just tar, gravel and dirt..I think it’s a run off drain for the roads and paddocks that are higher up then us...from the drain there’s a creek near by that it runs into...Anyway...There’s a family of Echidnas living in it..occasionally I see them walking around our little village...they are so cute..everyone leaves them alone..they’ve been their for a few years now..

On top of that a new couple moved into a rental opposite Betty’s home...They have 2 large dogs, living in the backyard .and half a dozen chickens living in the front yard..no fence, they roam around all day long..sampling different grasses from different houses...😁..and they always go back home at sundown....Proves what I already knew..that animals are very intelligent creatures...

My kindest and most caring thoughts..

Grandy..

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[ecomama]

Awww how sweet to see a family of echidnas living nearby Grandy... we have echidnas travelling through the gardens of my work place.
And snakes lol... and lots of birds.

I especially LOVE seeing the flocks of Black Cockatoos high up in the trees, our buildings are up to 4 stories high so at the tree tops. We can see them eating, fighting and playing. Always squawking!

My chooks do that, roam around to neighbour's gardens and come home to my inside laundry at night lol.

At FIRST my neighbours didn't like my chooks doing that but one neighbour noticed the lawn grub disappearing in her lawn lol... and saw my chickens pecking in the patch.

So now all the neighbours are fine with the girls doing their thang lol.

We're experiencing extremes in temps at the moment, so one thing I'm seeing is how the clouds are rapidly changing. They're SO BEAUTIFUL!

After an extremely hot morning, we saw grey clouds billowing in multiple pillow shapes towards us and then the rain came... yay!

I'd used alot of my tank water scrubbing my paths (from where all the birds had pooped lol) so I was happy the tanks were being all filled up again!

My plants are growing so much from all this gentle rain. It's beautiful.

Happy days Grandy.
Love EM

[geoff]

Dear Grandy, yes it is, without any question beautiful.

The small acreage we owned when we were still a family had magnificent views that could change within the minute were breathtaking (sorry) and the list of pets our sons wanted as well as us but only in circumstances were chooks, ducks, pigs, heaps of cats and dogs, the latter would just arrive and stay, we also had budgies, guess who's job was to feed them, me most of the time, but not the mice or snakes.

I would love to be back there, but chopping wood is way beyond me now, although with the new split systems it wouldn't be necessary, there's nothing better than a fire in a coonara heater, the only problem is the dust it creates.

Nature invigorates the soul.

Take care.

Geoff.

[Ggrand]

Hello ecomama, Geoff..and everyone..

I am unlucky as I’ve not seen black cockatoos..out this way..or anyway at all..I hope one day that I will have the honour of seeing some one day..

Chicken are such funny adorable creatures..they can form attachments to humans very easily....The chickens that roam around our town, I think they think own every yard here and even the road..They seem to like sitting in the middle of the road..and at times I need to drive around them..because they just move😁..

Geoff..and everyone..I lived all my early life close enough to Sydney that we walked their many times..then we moved out to the outer suburbs..and my love of birds, and creatures started to surface...Moving to the central west of NSW was the best idea my late husband had...it was his idea..but he hated it..oh...he hated everything and everyone...I absolutely fell in love with the creatures that visited our property...

My support worker took me to the arboretum a few months back...it’s only 5 minute drive from mine..It’s untouched land..the trees are so many...natural rock formation and rocks scattered everywhere..birds, lizards, possibly snakes..beetles..are abundant life their..

Got me thinking about how beautiful this planet would have been..where now tall apartments blocks stand, large shopping centres everywhere...it’s very hard to visualise the before...before they chopped down trees, scraped the land free of rocks, filled in natural creeks and unfortunately the the creatures that lived their...had to move on....unless you’ve seen it as they are doing it...as I have done...Even the large acreage across from me has had lots of trees chopped down, to allow for grazing land for stock animals..

Young children born and raised in the city..will they ever get to see and appreciate the natural beauty that once was?...A trip to our national parks is a good spot to take them...sadly they are also disappearing making room for more buildings more shopping centres..more communities...

Where then can our younger generation get to learn the value of of our trees, animal life...The planet will start to slowly die...without enough trees...If you can i urge you to spend a day in nature, feel, see, touch it’s beauty and please hug a tree...the sensation of doing so is unbelievable..

My kindest and most caring thoughts everyone..

Grandy..

[Matchy69]

Hi Grandy this is a great thread title.I own a bush acreage about an hour away from where I live.It has some wonderful widelife and plant life.If I am lucky when I go there I will see some emus and it has plenty of kangaroos many a koala and their is wombats as well.The bird life is amazing there.I have so many different gumtrees that are spectacular and ironbarks and cassurinas with some shruby plants that get pretty yellow flowers on them.I just love going there and enjoying the Australian bush.I am keeping it as a nature reserve so my kids can enjoy it in the future .

[Hanna3]

Just bookmarking this Grandy, what a lovely thread!