A Poem for Earth Day. Read Aloud, Please.

My one contribution is Avebury, England, 2006.

And here are more photographs from my Ukrainian exchange student.

Click on all photos to enlarge so you can find hidden creatures,

or just see them better

A froggie





Now say a little prayer of thanks for Father Hopkins and our sweet Earth.

Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844 - 1888

Photographer unknown


Pied Beauty

Glory be to God for dappled things
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;

For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;

Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls, finches' wings;

Landscape plotted and pieced - fold, fallow, and plough;

And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim.

All things counter, original, spare, strange;

Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how??)

With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;

He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:

Praise God.