Field Trip

Our family visited the Adena Mansion and Gardens, home of Thomas Worthington, sixth Governor of Ohio and one of Ohio's first U.S. Senators on Friday.  We want to go back already!  Everyone learned something.  What did I learn?  That 'Adena' is not an Indian word.  It is Hebrew for 'pleasure'.

Motes quote

And here the poor mamma uttered a short prayer that she might be enabled to instil good principles into her children's minds, that so Kate, and Undine too, might know dust for dust whenever they saw it, let the outward world shine upon it never so brightly.

"Ay, ay," thought the mother, as she looked once more: "Motes in the sunbeam as we are—miserable dust and ashes in ourselves—the light streams down upon us and transfigures us: we follow the light upwards, and become the children of light ourselves."

from 'Motes in the Sunbeam', Parables of Nature by Margaret S. Gatty

Tweet and See - March 2011

• American Robin
• Killdeer
• Northern Mockingbird
• Turkey Vulture
• Tufted Titmouse
• Dark-eyed Junco
• Northern Cardinal
• Northern Flicker
• Canada Goose
• Red-winged Blackbird
• Common Grackle
• Northern Harrier
• Mallard Duck
• House Sparrow
• American Goldfinch
• Rock Dove
• Chipping Sparrow
• Pileated Woodpecker
• Great Blue Heron

Think

TEACH

TRAIN

NURTURE

ADMONISH

Think

EXAMINE

ENCOURAGE

ERECT

EXPIRE

Someday

(sung to the tune of "Someday My Prince Will Come")

Someday my nose won't run.

Someday I will not cough,

and I will not be sick then.

I'll be happy and well once again.

'Til then I'll blow my nose,

and I will cover my mouth.

'Til that day when I'm well again.

by Lepidoptera 3/19/2011

Think

LOVE

ENCOURAGE

SUPPORT

"Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all." - I Timothy 4:15