Brick walls redux
Posted: January 23, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in art, Adventures in Life, Art, books, Earth, goals, home, nature, Photography, pond, small stones, Spirit, water, weather, winter, yoga | Tags: A Writer's Book of Days, birds, books, Judy Reeves, nature, Photography, pond, rain, water, winter, Writing 36 Comments
If you paid a visit to my other blog today, you may think this is a cross-posting. It’s not, really. I’m leading with the same post title and image because I have brick walls on the brain today.
Three Pictures
Posted: January 22, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Art, Earth, home, Letting Go, nature, Photography, snow, Spirit, water, winter | Tags: Adobe Photoshop, flowers, nature, Photography, Picnik, snow, winter 25 Comments
Picnik will be closing. The last day to use the photo editing site is April 19, 2012. I will be sorry to see it go because I was just starting to really enjoy playing around with my photos in a variety of ways. Picnik made play easy to do, usually in one step rather than the several I often have to take in Photoshop to get certain effects.
Sometimes that’s as good as it gets
Posted: January 21, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Air, Art, Critters, Earth, goals, home, Letting Go, nature, Photography, snow, Spirit, Walking, water, weather, winter, yoga | Tags: birds, cross-country skiing, nature, Photography, snow, winter 42 Comments
I spent a lot of time last winter trying to “capture” the elusive male cardinal. I set up camp by a window where I’d have the best shot at him. I’d patiently wait. And wait. And wait. As soon as I had to get up and move for some reason (sometimes just to move!), he would show up and I’d miss the shot. Or that brilliant red would catch the eye of one of the cats and they would scare him off by jumping up on the windowsill. Eventually I settled for this photo although I did keep trying throughout the winter. It was as good as it was going to get.
A smoberversary
Posted: January 20, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Air, Critters, Earth, home, Letting Go, nature, Photography, snow, Spirit, Walking, water, weather, winter, yoga | Tags: Addiction, birds, Joy of Quitting, Lake Erie, Lake-effect snow, nature, Photography, Smoking cessation, snow, wildflowers, winter, woods 40 Comments
I had my weather facts wrong yesterday. The snowstorm that moved through was not lake effect snow at all, but part of a clipper system coming down from Canada. The snow we’re expecting later today will be brought to us courtesy of another front. The weather prognosticators are saying we could get up to 6 inches of new snow. Skiing might be possible tomorrow.
White out
Posted: January 19, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Earth, food, home, Letting Go, nature, Photography, pond, snow, Spirit, water, weather, winter, yoga | Tags: cake, cooking, nature, Photography, snow, Walnut, water, winter 30 Comments
To balance out yesterday’s black out, I bring you a White Out. The snow started falling yesterday, with some breaks in the action here and there. The front, which brought with it some thunderstorms and strong winds, is somewhere out east (perhaps off the coast by now), and the snow that’s flying today is lake-effect.
Blacked Out
Posted: January 18, 2012 Filed under: home, nature, Photography, politics, Spirit, winter | Tags: nature, Photography, protest, winter 12 Comments
Censored
Life in the Bogs is blacked out today as part of the internet protests against SOPA and PIPA. If you want to learn more, the black-out screen provides a video as well as links. Regularly scheduled programming will resume tomorrow.
A visit from spring
Posted: January 17, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Air, Earth, goals, home, Letting Go, nature, Photography, pond, small stones, Spirit, wandering, water, weather, winter, yoga | Tags: nature, Photography, pond, rain, reflections, water, wildflowers, winter 34 Comments
Storm in the meadow
It smells like spring here in the Bogs today. Earthy, wet, and warm. Most of the snow has melted, some of it making its way downhill and into the pond. The wind has been wild and powerful, growing stronger throughout the day.
Life in the Bogs 