“Many a forenoon have I stolen
away, preferring to spend thus the most valued part of the day; for I was rich,
if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days, and spent them lavishly; nor
do I regret that I did not waste more of them in the workshop or the teacher’s
desk.”
~ Henry David Thoreau
~ 1817-1862
~ “Walden”
~originally
published August 9, 1854
To me, there’s nothing so beautiful
in nature as a summer morning, and Thoreau’s words seamlessly flow through this image
of milkweed basking in the morning sun that I shot on a brilliant August day at
Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.
If we all had more sunny hours and
summer days, how much richer – and happier – we’d all be.
