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The Beaver's lodge
Mammals which live in large groups, such as herds of deer, do not need a home of their own. Some animals are solitary and have their independent family life and make a home. Others are neighbourly, like rabbits, with many families living in their own...
The Horse Chestnut
The Horse Chestnut This tree was introduced into Britain from the Balkans in the sixteenth century. The name 'horse' has nothing to do with horses (as horses will not eat the fruit of the Horse Chestnut), but means 'coarse' or 'inferior', the hard red-brown...
A Holiday
every day is a holiday for me a holy day a day given to me as a gift to take pleasure from the worlds amazing abundance and to share with a smile and kind words to those around. . / The holy day is a day set aside for special religious observance .
The Floral Dance
The Floral Dance As I walked home on a Summer night When stars in Heav'n were shining bright Far away from the footlight's glare Into the sweet and scented air Of a quaint old Cornish town Borne from afar on the gentle breeze Joining the murmur of the...
The Scots Elm
The Wych Elm is also known as the Mountain Elm and the Scots Elm. It is not a common tree in the south of England. On good soil it may attain a girth of fifty feet, but it never grows as tall as the Common Elm. The bark is rough with deep vertical fissures,...
Hands and the Brain
Many animals use their front paws like hands. A squirrel or a hamster will hold a nut in its front paws, and a dog holds down a bone while gnawing it, and so do lions and tigers. A kangaroo will use its dainty fore-feet to hold its leaves it its eating...
The Apple
"I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;” - Song of Solomon 7:8 Just as the apple removes impurities from the body, God’s...
The Field Elm
The Common Elm or the Field Elm. The Common Elm or the Field Elm is a tall tree. It has an erect cylindrical trunk bearing a massive circular crown. It may attain a height of one hundred and thirty feet. It could have a girth of about twenty feet. The...
Spring in the country
Spring in the country . .