And, while on Mother Nature,  we just watched some guys from the Park District planting small saplings in the neighborhood.  They carefully covered each and put a support around it so that the sampling, as it matured would grow up straight and tall reaching its fullest potential.  What a great idea!    We have got to do the same with our children,  to embrace, nourish, encourage their imagination, to teach them basic values of love, honesty, respect, discipline, sharing and above all responsibility for his/her actions. This truly all begins at home when the child first learns to walk.  Children tend to grow up much earlier in today’s world and they do not have the liberty or leisure to enjoy the process of growing up like we did.  It does not matter how small a child is, he/she can be taught that his /her actions do have consequences, they will understand the meaning of responsibility.  


Since we at NPP are extremely partial to Nature in all of its glory, we do have that special favor for children as well.  And from that aspect, we have published our first children’s Book, titled BUFO by Terra Ciel.  A wonderfully captivating and beautifully illustrated Book. It not only soars a child’s imagination but also teaches them love and respect for each other despite being different.  Encourage children to read because reading opens up enormous vistas to a child’s imagination besides teaching them.  Check it out Parents, Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles, Teachers  for the children in your life.  Read it to them if they cannot, help them research the various animals, insects, solve the puzzles behind the book.  All in  all, we do highly  recommend the book. You can buy BUFO  from Amazon (just click on Bufo)

Well here's hoping that someone took my advice and stopped and beheld gifts of Nature.  Now that Spring is around the corner, if you take a walk through the park, it feels like the earth is trying to send up a message of "GREEN" and the world thinks  "GO"   Tiny blades of grass are venturing out. I even saw a squirrel scurry here and there to see what's going around his part of the world. The geese think it warm enough to come back to town and even shared their eats with a dozen pigeons and a few sparrows.      How about you?  What's on your mind today, I hope, only happy thoughts of the day. 

A couple weeks ago, as I walked by the side of the lake, through the white expanse of a recent snow fall, I saw footprints of a human that had left their imprint in the soft snow and amongst them a quad of paw prints and several bird feet as well.  What did they think about?  Was there joy or immense sorrow, was there anticipation or dread?  Who knows? But, I do know this, if a human footprint was side by side with that of a paw, there must have been much joy and gladness.  Is it not amazing that one's pets love you unconditionally.  Yes, that is exactly what Mother Nature does for us as well, always giving, never expecting.