Sunday Favorites: New York Minutes

Lately I've been very lazy about my blogging...it seems I just needed a break for some reason.  Now I feel a little more ambitious and like getting back into it. I ran across a lovely blog, Happy to Design, who hosts a weekly blog party called Sunday Favorites and thought it was a perfect way to get my rear in gear again.

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Before moving to New York State 30 years ago, I was like most people who had never been there. I believed all of New York was concrete and sky scrapers, in other words, New York City.  Don't get me wrong ... I love the Big Apple but I was blown away by the state when I saw the beauty that was everywhere.  Trees, mountains, wildlife, beautiful lakes and streams.  It was awesome!  

One of my favorite posts includes a photo from each of the seasons that shows what I get to enjoy year round.  The photos of the fawn and deer were taken in my yard.

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New York Minutes

Autumn

No Spring nor Summer Beauty hath such grace

As I have seen in one Autumnal face.”
- John Donne (17th Century England) 


Winter
"He stood still, and loved it. Its beauty was paralyzing beyond all words,
all experience, all dream."
—Conrad Aiken, "Silent Snow, Secret Snow"


Spring
The fawn was very shy and small
Who had bright white dots on its fur
When finally he could stand up tall
He could walk and stand steadily and sure
The forest awaited this newborn fawn
And welcomed it gratefully, at the first light of dawn
-unknown


Summer
Eyes of brown and tail of white,
and leaping bounds with muscles tight;
and grazing meadows mid the wind,
that blows the grass like ocean's kin.

Walking through the forest deep,
while feeding on the moss of green;
and rubbing antlers yet not weened,
and licking coat of velvet sheen.

The deer, so graceful, seldom seen.
-William Elliot, The Deer