Lookaftering #6

A parcel of pretty things

Dear readers,

Happy Sunday! Today’s Lookaftering newsletter is a small collection of pretty things, jam-packed with loveliness to buoy spirits and sprinkle a bit more colour into your day.

Read on for a few favourite discoveries that have brought me joy, like Young Lee’s charmingly soothing windswept dogs in fields:

Flowing in the Moonlight by Young Lee

These pair beautifully with Mary Oliver’s poem “Luke,” which begins:

I had a dog
who loved flowers.
Briskly she went
through the fields,

yet paused
for the honeysuckle
or the rose,
her dark head

and her wet nose
touching
the face
of every one […]

Flow no.21 by Young Lee

This weekend, Copenhagen’s Bloom festival is taking place in our local park– a marvellous yearly celebration of science and nature that’s free to just wander into and take a seat.

Yesterday I was awe-struck by “The Mind of a Bee,” a talk by leading bee researcher Lars Chittka, who has an intriguing-sounding book of the same name. (Bees can learn to pull a piece of string or roll balls into a goal in exchange for sugar water!)