Missing My Old Kentucky Home

[pinkpawpad]

To one who has been long in city pent,
'Tis very sweet to look into the fair
And open face of heaven, - to breathe a prayer
Full in the smile of the blue firmament.
~ John Keats, Sonnet XIV

Once you have heard the lark, known the swish of feet through hill-top grass
and smelt the earth made ready for the seed, you are never again going to
be fully happy

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[nattybumppo]

When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

STILL missing Tucky Play Farm

[pinkpawpad]

How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under
roses and violets and morning dew!

~Ralph Waldo Emerson