Crammed with heaven

With moisture enough this early summer, the garden is looking lush and bearing produce: yesterday I picked the first crop of snow peas.

I continue to be amazed at creation - how is it that a small seed germinates, grows stalk and leaf and flower and fruit, and puts out seed to live again? Fascinating and miraculous. A great thought (borrowed, yet again, from friend Carl's collection) --

Earth is crammed with heaven,

And every common bush afire with God;
But only he who sees takes off his shoes;
The rest sit around and pluck blackberries.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Just discovered: a blog named "Earth is crammed with heaven" with exquisite nature photography graced with rhyme or verse. Additionally, therein is a long list of online nature journals, and a list of free online resources.
To the right is a picture of Purple Viper's Bugloss (Echium plantagineum L.) from this site; for more, go to http://crammed-with-heaven.blogspot.com/.

For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities

—his eternal power and divine nature

—have been clearly seen,

being understood from what has been made,

so that men are without excuse.

~ Romans 1:20