Saturday Sundry
Posted: May 26, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Earth, Fire, home, music, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Spring, Walking, wandering, water, weather | Tags: flowers, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, spring, trees, water, woods 4 Comments »
Remember my photographic tribute to Pink Martini? The rhododendron flowers in the martini glass made such a lovely display that I put it on the dining room table as a centerpiece. Later in the day I noticed a beam of sunlight streaming through the blinds and highlighting the martini glass. This did not need much in the way of post-processing. I resized it for the web, adjusted the contrast and sharpened it a bit. I had the white balance on the camera set to “open shade” to give it a warmer color.
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Scenes from a foggy morning
Posted: May 25, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Air, Digital Art, Earth, Fire, home, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Spring, Walking, water, weather | Tags: Ansel Adams, dawn, fog, mist, nature, Nature Conservancy, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, spring, sunrise, trees, water 10 Comments »
The ladder-trellis (we’re using to grow hops) at sunrise.
The photos I’m using in this post were taken last Friday around sunrise. Fog was drifting over and around the pond, and the light was simply wonderful.
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Everybody needs beauty (Thursday Travels)
Posted: May 24, 2012 Filed under: nature, hiking, travel, home, Spring, Walking, weather, Summer, Flashbacks, 365 Yoga Challenge, Photography, water, Spirit, pond, Adventures in Life, Critters, Thursday Travels | Tags: birds, Colorado, pond, reflections, quotes, Outdoors, Canada geese, Photography, Hiking, travel, nature, spring, John Muir, Calhan Paint Mines Interpretive Park 13 Comments »
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
~ John Muir
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Beware
Posted: May 23, 2012 Filed under: nature, health, home, Spring, Walking, weather, goals, garden, 365 Yoga Challenge, Quotes, Photography, water, Earth, Spirit, Fire, pond, exercise, Local Tourists | Tags: pond, trees, flowers, reflections, water, woods, Holden Arboretum, quotes, Outdoors, Photography, nature, spring, HIIT 28 Comments »
In the language of flowers, a Victorian-era way of communicating with flowers or floral arrangements, the rhododendron means beware, caution, danger. It is said the reasoning behind it has to do with the leaves of the plant which are poisonous.
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Will this post write itself?
Posted: May 22, 2012 Filed under: nature, home, Spring, Walking, weather, wandering, 365 Yoga Challenge, Photography, water, Earth, Spirit, exercise, Adventures in Life, Local Tourists, Digital Art | Tags: garden, pond, trees, flowers, reflections, water, woods, Holden Arboretum, Outdoors, Photography, nature, spring, Rhododendron, Rhododendron Garden 36 Comments »
Wandering through the Rhododendron Garden at the Holden Arboretum
My thanks to the people who bring me search engine terms to use for post titles. This one happens to be extremely appropriate as I have no idea what to write about today. I suspect it’s going to be a lot of rambling about nothing.
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Losing sleep over Harry Potter
Posted: May 21, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in art, Adventures in Life, books, Earth, endings, Fire, garden, goals, hiking, home, movies, nature, Photography, Spirit, Spring, Walking, water, weather | Tags: books, films, flowers, garden, Graveyard Book, Harry Potter, Hiking, Holden Arboretum, Movies, nature, Outdoors, Parseltongue, Phantom Tollbooth, Photography, Secret Garden, spring, trees, water, woods 35 Comments »
I wonder if this snake speaks Parseltongue?*
I arrived late to the Harry Potter party. I read the first book or two when they first came out. M the Younger (aka Youngest Son) “outgrew” the books at that point, and since he gave up on them, so did I. I’m not quite sure why as I’ve never been one to refrain from reading a book simply because it was meant for children. Some of my favorite books are meant for children. The Secret Garden. The Phantom Tollbooth. The Graveyard Book (the one book review I’ve done here at Ye Olde Blogge, but stay tuned — another one is coming up soon).
*If you’re unfamiliar with Harry Potter, find out more about Parseltongue here. The snake, by the way, is a black rat snake we saw on one of the trails at the Holden Arboretum during our hike yesterday. Isn’t he beautiful?
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Sunday at the Holden Arboretum
Posted: May 20, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in Life, Earth, Fire, garden, hiking, home, Local Tourists, nature, Photography, Spirit, Spring, Walking, weather | Tags: flowers, garden, Hiking, Holden Arboretum, nature, Outdoors, Photography, spring, trees, woods 13 Comments »
M and I decided to wander up north to the Holden Arboretum today to do a little hiking and to check out their plant sale. It was a gorgeous day for it, at least in the early morning. By noon it was starting to get pretty hot (in the mid-80s).
