A Year of Reading

  nature teaches us expect the unexpected snow in late April ©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021

nature carries on hyacinths are gone viburnum is swarmed by bees daisies will bloom next  ©Mary Lee Hahn, 2020

The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane illustrated by Jackie Morris I saw this book in Maria Popova's Brain Pickings newslette...

To the Daisy That Has Survived Even Though the Grounds Crew Mowed Down the School Land Lab Two Years Ago Bloom! No matter how low...

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Keen Observe...

Flickr Creative Commons Photo by stevep2008 ducks on the path feet slap, slap, slap I glide past ©Mary Lee Hahn, 2017 ...

For the second half of National Poetry Month 2017,  Malvina will Sing It, and I'll write a poem in response. What Scient...

image via unsplash Some Days by Philip Terman Some days you have to turn off the news and listen to the bird or truck or the neig...

Quite So Much If it weren't for the clouds I wouldn't love the blue quite so much. If it weren't for the cold shock ...

Everyday Miracle Watching caterpillars morph from worm into chrysalis never grows old. S...

Jack in the Pulpit: unrecognized miracle pokes up amongst ferns ©Mary Lee Hahn, 2016 How many miracles do we walk by ...

Manatee Rescue by Nicola Davies Candlewick, January 2016 I read aloud The Lion Who Stole My Arm by Nicola Davies earlier this year (...

AUDUBON METRO PARK The sun -- a low-hanging smudge. The pond -- a layer of ice over mud. A movement under the ice -- a darker oval. A ...

On the Wing by David Elliott illustrated by Becca Stadtlander Candlewick Press, 2014 As I noted last Wednesday , J. Patrick ...

Winter Bees: & Other Poems of the Cold by Joyce Sidman illustrated by Rick Allen HMH Books for Young Readers, 2014 As I noted y...

Flickr Creative Commons Photo Shadow The shadow before me shimmers, then waddles, then has a white stripe and a tail that's ...

Fox's Garden by Princesse Camcam Enchanted Lion Books, 2014 review copy provided by the publisher This newest book in Enchan...

Dear Wandering Wildebeest: And Other Poems from the Water Hole by Irene Latham illustrated by Anna Wadham Millbrook Press, August 1. ...

Seeds, Bees, Butterflies, and More!: Poems for Two Voices by Carole Gerber illustrated by Eugene Yelchin Henry Holt and Co. (February...

THE DANCE OF LIFE Oak, not mobile, chaperones, roots tapping the season's beat. © Mary Lee Hahn, 2013 ...