Here Comes the Son

As chief/chef (a friend of mine intermixes these quite frequently) blogger, I would like to extend a most hearty welcome to our youngest GBC member, Emerson. In his honour, I offer a few words from Mr. Ralph Waldo Emerson's Nature (sourced here) as your muse for the day:

To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child. The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.