Nature's Beauty

Redwoods standing tall and strong.

sycamores with mushroom-like foliage.

Maple with their sap soon to be syrup.

Willows weeping in the new dawn light.

Cardinals singing on the branches of a oak tree 

At the rising sun.

Pine

never changing 

yet always growing.

taller 

taller

taller.

Reaching 

for the heavens.

A small colony of ants living in the ground.

All working together to create a haven of life.

Take away one thing 

and it all 

falls 

apart.

Please treat mother nature with respect.

After all we owe our lives to her.

GhostSlayer

VT

15 years old

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