Sunday Afternoon in Nature - Make the Connection

It's Sunday afternoon here in Chicago and I'm just relaxing in front of our backyard pond.  It won't be long now until we move out of this home we have enjoyed for nearly twenty years.  With the mid-summer weather in Chicago treating us to Spring-like conditions, we will miss our pond as much as anything.  It has become an event to simply greet it in the morning - saying hello to our little paradise - fish, plants, smooth, comfortable stepping stones, and of course, the enduring symphony of the waterfall.  What is it about nature that engages us?  Whatever it is, we need to remind ourselves that we are part of Nature. This reminds us that we are alive! -- and should be enjoying every day to the fullest. 

If you aren't enjoying nature in your personal environment, maybe it's time for an upgrade - an enhancement.  I'm sure we will have at least one and probably more water features in our new home - installed by Treemendous Landscape Company, of course. By introducing water, fragrance, texture,  and color into your outdoor environment, you are abstracting the larger envrironment that we are all connected to.  Landscaping isn't just ornamentation -- properly designed and implemented, it creates a space where you can contemplate, meditate, and best of all - celebrate!  It may remind you that you are not alone. We are all part of a larger universe that supports and sustains us in ways that we cannot always comprehend, but that we can surely appreciate.  And thankfully the awareness of green is bringing that to the forefront.  Take some time in nature - even just looking up at the stars at night.  You will know with certainty that you are connected with every living creature in this universe.  I'm confident it will remind you that you are not alone, but connected in ways we don't even have to understand to appreciate.