The world is sacred.
It can't be improved.
If you tamper with it, you'll ruin it.
If you treat it like an object, you'll lose it.
It can't be improved.
If you tamper with it, you'll ruin it.
If you treat it like an object, you'll lose it.
—Tao Te Ching #29, Stephen Mitchell translation
This week's walk in the park was truly inspirational; the greenery was lush, the flowers prolific, and the wildlife teeming. As with last week, the butterflies were especially active, and were even willing to sit still for portraits. Well, most of the time, anyway. In any case, today's walk was truly a pilgrimage in a sacred space.
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| Entering the park by the Dykeman WalkingTrail |
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| The old wooden railroad trestle on the trail |
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| A Dwarf Bumblebee and an Ailanthus Webworm Moth visiting some Joe Pye Weed |
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| A Painted Turtle sunning on a rock in the north duck pond |
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| Some juvenile Mallards taking a lunchtime nap on the north duck pond |
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| A Red-spotted Purple butterfly up in the meadow |
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| Wade has started the second haying this week. Here's hoping the rain holds off! |
© 2019 by A. Roy Hilbinger
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