Mysteries of psithurism

Today there is a new word for you! In the Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area, it may be a better autumnal word. However, today, this marvellous winter day, this word is shared especially for you.

From The Red Forest the word is psithurism.

Psithurism!

Have you ever heard of psithurism before? Well perhaps not the word, but, and however, you probably did enjoy sitting in a forest listening and marvelling at the wind rustling through the leaves. And it is a glorious feeling to hear the wind moving through the branches of the trees. That experience is psithurism.

So next time you marvel at the shimmer of the trembling aspen leaves when the slightest breeze rustles those amazing leafy “coins” of the “money tree,” think of psithurism. As you walk through the forest in the winter and a silverberry or snowberry bush still remains with leaves, remember psithurism and rejoice.

So today, the challenge is passive and quiet. The challenge is to set yourself still and quiet in the forest, and experience psithurism. So please do Take It Outside, and celebrate this WinterCity YXE opportunity to have a Winter Staycation in Saskatoon.

For directions as to how to drive to “George Genereux” Urban Regional Park
For directions on how to drive to Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area
For more information:
Blairmore Sector Plan Report; planning for the Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area, George Genereux Urban Regional Park and West Swale and areas around them inside of Saskatoon city limits
NEW P4G District Official Community Plan
Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area is located in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada north of Cedar Villa Road, within city limits, in the furthest south west area of the city. 52° 06′ 106° 45′
Addresses:
Part SE 23-36-6 – Afforestation Area – 241 Township Road 362-A
Part SE 23-36-6 – SW Off-Leash Recreation Area (Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area ) – 355 Township Road 362-A
S ½ 22-36-6 Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area (West of SW OLRA) – 467 Township Road 362-A
NE 21-36-6 “George Genereux” Afforestation Area – 133 Range Road 3063
Wikimapia Map: type in Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area
Google Maps South West Off Leash area location pin at parking lot
Web page: https://stbarbebaker.wordpress.com
Where is the Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area? with map
Where is the George Genereux Urban Regional Park (Afforestation Area)?with map
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United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration

• Use the UN Decade’s Visual Identity 
• Make it your own
• Spread the word about the UN Decade 
• Let’s Bring Back Forests
• Let’s Green Our Cities

“To be standing together in a frosty field, looking up into the sky, marvelling at birds and revelling in the natural world around us, was a simple miracle. And I wondered why we were so rarely able to appreciate it.”

Lynn Thomson

“Creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been searching for: enlivenment, peace, meaning, and the incalculable wealth of time spent quietly in beauty.”
-Anne Lamott