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Our Community Outreach team challenged writers of all ages in Lower Bucks County to capture local nature in 100 words or less for our first writing contest. We received over 70 submissions, with entries from young school children, adults, and everyone in between.
We celebrated our nature writers at Grundy Library this past Saturday and presented awards from various local businesses to our favorite entries. We were impressed with the evocative writing and thoughtful observations and advocacy that writers shared. Mary Viall won our adult category:
Expression of Nature
Be still, and silent awaiting in the forest. For what? A surprise. In cyclical seasons, chaotic yet orderly, with budding red trees, leaves deep green in summer, fiery orange ready for falling, and barren in icy winter. Imagine the sky drenched in apricots, peaches, strawberries, and gold. A smile. Smells of lavender and peppermint. Water flows, trickling through rocks. A mother’s love dances with you. Only in observation can beauty be appreciated, like spotting deer on a rainy grey-skied morning, and squirrels hidden in oaks nibbling acorns. Nature is breathing; an inhale and exhale. A first kiss and last goodbye.
Read all the Nature Micro-Writer winner here.
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