Gratitude, a good way to end the year
Posted: December 31, 2011 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in Life, Air, Blog awards, celebrations, Critters, Earth, friends, health, home, Letting Go, life, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Thanks!, Walking, water, weather, winter, yoga | Tags: birds, Leibster Award, nature, Photography, pond, postaday2011, Versatile Blogger Award, water 57 Comments
Companions on a journey
#4 on my list of Things To Do While I’m Not Feeling Well: Say thank you.
Call and response
Posted: December 30, 2011 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in Life, Art, Earth, goals, health, home, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter, yoga | Tags: birds, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, postaday2011, reflections, trees, water, winter 41 Comments
I took a slow walk around the pond today. I heard a group of crows cawing in the trees while I was standing on the porch and decided to follow. Let’s call it #3 in the category of Things To Do While I’m Not Feeling Well. That seems like such a long title for a blog post so I went with something a little more succinct as well as appropriate.
Things to do while I’m not feeling well
Posted: December 29, 2011 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in Life, Earth, goals, health, home, Letting Go, nature, Photography, Quotes, Spirit, water, weather, winter, yoga | Tags: Ginger, Health, nature, Photography, postaday2011, quotations, Rooibos, Saki, tea, Thich Nhat Hanh, water 25 Comments
#1: Enjoy a cup of tea. Really enjoy it. Watch the steam curl and rise. Place my hands around the cup and feel the warmth. Notice the color of the tea. Breathe in the scent, the warmth, the moisture. Feel the liquid warmth on my tongue and sliding down my throat and into my stomach, the heat radiating throughout.
Savor the flavor.
Give thanks.
Childhood disease revisted
Posted: December 28, 2011 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in Life, Earth, goals, health, home, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter, yoga | Tags: Bernie S. Siegel, Chickenpox, Health, Kat Duff, Kenji Miyazawa, nature, Pain, Photography, postaday2011, quotes, reflections 50 Comments
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
~ Kenji Miyazawa
Enforced break
Posted: December 27, 2011 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Earth, goals, health, home, nature, Photography, snow, Spirit, Walking, weather, winter | Tags: nature, Photography, postaday2011 34 Comments
Yesterday morning
Yesterday was a gorgeous day here in the Bogs. Sunshine, bright blue sky, and relatively warm temperatures made it the perfect day for a walk around the pond.
Blue Hen Falls
Posted: December 26, 2011 Filed under: 365 Life in the Bogs Challenge, Adventures in Life, family, hiking, home, Local Tourists, nature, Photography, Spirit, water, weather, winter, yoga | Tags: Blue Hen Falls, Cuyahoga Valley National Park, nature, Photography, postaday2011, water, Waterfalls, winter 44 Comments
Blue Hen Falls, also located in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, is described on various websites as small, not interesting, and unimpressive. It is small compared to Brandywine Falls, and perhaps not as interesting or impressive, but I thought it was beautiful, and certainly much more peaceful even though this waterfall was also running more water than usual.
Merry Christmas
Posted: December 25, 2011 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in Life, celebrations, Earth, goals, holidays, home, Photography, Spirit, winter, yoga | Tags: card, Christmas, Photography, postaday2011, Santa Claus, winter 19 Comments
Life in the Bogs 