the moon from our roof

last night.

everywhere you look is life

Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp -- everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs. From the edge of the woods, the white-throated sparrow (which must come all the way from Boston) calls, "Oh Peabody, Peabody, Peabody!" On an apple bough, the pheobe teeters and wags its tail and says, "Phoebe, phoe-bee!" The song sparrow, who knows how brief and lovely life is, says, "Sweet sweet, sweet interlude; sweet, sweet, sweet interlude." If you enter the barn, the swallows swoop down from their nests and scold. "Cheeky, cheeky!" they say.

In early summer there are plenty of things for a child to eat and drink and suck and chew. Dandelion stems are full of milk, clover heads are loaded with nectar, the Frigidaire is full of ice-cold drinks. Everywhere you look is life; even the little ball of spit on the weed stalk, if you poke it apart, has a green worm inside it. And on the underside of the leaf of the potato vine are the bright orange eggs of the potato bug.

--E.B. White, Charlotte's Web

Playing With the Moon

Well isn't this series of photos just the most magical and delightful thing I've seen all week! There are a bunch more, all incredibly clever, here. Via Love Set You Going.

Bio-Diversity by Christopher Niemann

File under Another Brilliant and Whimsical Concept by Christopher Niemann. See the entire Bio-Diversity set here. Via Abstract City.

Whole-Tree Architecture

Look at the amazing living spaces created by architect Roald Gundersen! The forester-architect creates homes using carefully selected and prepared whole trees. The effect is unusual and quite beautiful. Read more about Gundersen, his family, and these amazing structures, here.

Photos by Paul Kelley for the New York Times.

Bronx Zoo

Yesterday we visited the Bronx Zoo for the first time and it was wonderful!  Here are some of our favorite highlights: