"Look and See"

 

One of my all time favorite Mary Oliver poems:

Look and See

This morning, at waterside, a sparrow flew

to a water rock and landed, by error, on the back

of an eider duck; lightly it fluttered off, amused.

The duck, too, was not provoked, but, you might say, 

was laughing.

This afternoon a gull sailing over

our house was casually scratching

its stomach of white feathers with one

pink foot as it flew.

Oh Lord, how shining and festive is your gift to us, 

if we only look, and see.

Visiting the Lan Su Chinese Gardens this week just to "look and see". I must go searching to find those little bits of nature that just make me smile. Isn't it amazing what you can find when you pay attention, opening your eyes?

Sending you out and about to "look and see".

With love,

Marilyn