335: Karma’s August Photo Hunt
Posted: August 24, 2011 Filed under: 365 Life in the Bogs Challenge, Adventures in art, Adventures in Life, Air, Critters, Earth, family, Fire, garden, goals, grandparenthood, home, Karma's Photo Hunt, Local Tourists, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Summer, travel, Walking, wandering, water | Tags: Blueberry, colors, Holden Arboretum, Miniature golf, Pennsylvania, Photo Hunt, Photography, Pittsburgh, postaday2011, rainbow, Strasburg Pennsylvania 52 Comments
A rainbow of colors
Karma’s August Photo Hunt challenge is to show summer in a rainbow of colors, photos representing the prominent colors of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. I have all the colors covered in the one photo above. Our spinners don’t come out until the summer months, and this one has all the colors of the rainbow included in its design.
334: I felt the earth move
Posted: August 23, 2011 Filed under: 365 Life in the Bogs Challenge, Adventures in Life, Earth, home, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Summer, Walking, water, weather | Tags: Earth, earthquake, forest, Mother Nature, nature, Ohio, Photography, postaday2011, woods 35 Comments
I was sitting here writing up my blog post for today (not this post, by the way), when I felt the ground, the house, the world, sway. It was a gentle back and forth motion. I would have thought I’d imagined it except for the cats who were clearly disturbed by whatever phenomenon had just occurred. Less than a minute or so later, I felt it again. I looked outside, thinking perhaps the wind had rocked the house. However, it didn’t feel like the wind. Whatever it was had originated from below (and I was in the basement at the time).
333: Sun and showers
Posted: August 22, 2011 Filed under: 365 Life in the Bogs Challenge, Adventures in Life, Air, Earth, Fire, home, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Summer, Walking, water, weather | Tags: nature, Photography, postaday2011, rain, rainbow, storms, weather 42 Comments
I feel like I should be playing the lottery or something today. Or at least doing something with the number 3. Day 333 of my outdoor commitment. Where did the time go?
332: Sunday sunflowers
Posted: August 21, 2011 Filed under: 365 Life in the Bogs Challenge, Adventures in Life, Earth, food, friends, garden, goals, home, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Summer, Walking, water, weather | Tags: flowers, food, India, Indian food, nature, Photography, Picnik, postaday2011, Summer, Sunflower, sunflowers 39 Comments
Sundays are usually about signage here on the Bogs blog, but today I’ve been playing with sunflowers and find them much more interesting than any of the signs I’ve photographed recently.
331: Hazy, not so lazy, days of summer
Posted: August 20, 2011 Filed under: 365 Life in the Bogs Challenge, Adventures in Life, Air, Bicycle Adventures, Earth, exercise, Fire, goals, Healthful Living Plan, home, hot air balloons, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Summer, water, weather | Tags: Bicyling, Cuyahoga River, cycling, Dam, Kent, Munroe Falls Ohio, nature, Ohio, Photography, postaday2011 30 Comments
We started the day here in the Bogs with some thick, soupy fog. I could not see the pond at all for a little while.
Rowboat and lake rake shrouded in fog
330: Friday Flash
Posted: August 19, 2011 Filed under: 365 Life in the Bogs Challenge, Earth, goals, home, nature, Photography, Summer, water, weather | Tags: flowers, Gnomes, Holden Arboretum, nature, Photography, postaday2011 13 Comments
One of the pathways at the Holden Arboretum
It has been a long, full day, and it’s not over yet. I’m going to put up a quick blog post and hope the quality of the post isn’t as bad as I suspect it will be.
329: Muck raking
Posted: August 18, 2011 Filed under: 365 Life in the Bogs Challenge, Adventures in Life, Critters, Earth, exercise, goals, home, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Summer, Walking, water, weather | Tags: Gnomes, Holden Arboretum, Mud, nature, Photography, pond, postaday2011, water, weed control 30 Comments
Somewhere in the neighborhood
According to the World English Dictionary, a muck rake is an agricultural rake used for spreading manure. A lake rake, on the other hand, is an agricultural rake used for raking weeds out of a lake or pond. The pond here at Breezy Acres not only has weeds, it has muck (also known are mud or mire). So when I rake weeds and muck out of the pond, I think of it as muck raking. It is a very dirty, messy, muddy, mucky business.
Life in the Bogs 