Great American Backyard Campout

The National Wildlife Federation invites you to participate in the second annual Great American Backyard Campout on Saturday, June 24. Pitch your tent, invite some friends, and discover all the benefits nature has to offer. For more information, or to register your yard, visit http://www.backyardcampout.org

Need more inspiration? Enjoy this peom by Grace Noll Crowell

The Day Will Bring Some Lovely Thing

The day will bring some lovely thing,
I say it over each new dawn-
Some gay, adventerous thing to hold
Within my heart when it is gone,
And so I rise and go to meet
The day with wings upon my feet.

I come upon it unaware,
some hidden beauty without name,
A snatch of song, a breath of pine,
A poem lit with golden flame,
High-tangled bird notes keenly thinned,
Life flying color in the wind.

No day has ever failed me quite;
before the grayest day is done,
I come upon some misty bloom,
Or a late line of crimson sun.
Each night I pause remembering
Some gay, adventerous lovely thing.

(Okay, it's a bit much, but you get the idea.)