One of those days
Posted: July 31, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in Life, Bicycle Adventures, Critters, Digital Art, Earth, Fire, home, Local Tourists, nature, Photography, Spirit, Summer, water, weather | Tags: Akron, birds, cycling, duck, flowers, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, reflections, Summer, Towpath Trail, water, water lilies, weather, whingeing 34 Comments
You probably know how this goes. You get up in the morning and at first everything seems okay, and then you realize everything isn’t okay. It started with the central air conditioning. It had been running all night, non-stop, and yet the house didn’t feel particularly cool. It refused to turn off when I lowered the temperature. Long story, short, an expert had to be called in to get it working again. Naturally this happens as the weather is heating up again.
Not your typical evening in the neighborhood
Posted: July 30, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in Life, Air, Critters, Digital Art, Earth, Fire, home, hot air balloons, nature, Photography, Spirit, Summer, Walking, weather | Tags: horses, hot air balloons, MaidinSun Photography, nature, neighborhood, Olympics, Outdoors, Photography, trees, walking, weather, wildflowers 27 Comments
This is not something you see every day.
Yesterday evening, after dinner, we had a little excitement across the street from us. Horses, a hot air balloon that appeared to be stuck in the trees… it was not at all a typical scene in our neighborhood. We do see horses, and hot air balloons. It’s just that we don’t usually see them at the same time, in the neighbor’s yard.
Walking on clouds
Posted: July 29, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Air, Earth, Fire, home, nature, Photography, Quotes, Spirit, Summer, Walking, water, weather | Tags: clouds, Diane Ackerman, flowers, Great Horned Owl, Leonard Louis Levinson, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, rain, sky, Summer, water, weather 36 Comments
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn’t see the clouds at all — he’s walking on them.
~ Leonard Louis Levinson
Playing with bubbles
Posted: July 28, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in art, Adventures in Life, Air, Digital Art, Earth, family, grandparenthood, home, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Summer, Walking, wandering, water, weather | Tags: bubbles, Columbus, Digital Art, George Santayana, grandparenthood, nature, Outdoors, Photography, play, quotes, reflections, water 37 Comments
A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.
~ George Santayana
Extraordinarily lucky
Posted: July 27, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Air, Critters, Earth, Fire, home, nature, Photography, Spirit, Summer, Walking, water, weather | Tags: American Goldfinch, birds, Breezy Acres, butterfly, flowers, Meadow, nature, Outdoors, Photography, rain, Summer, thistle, water, weather, wildflowers 41 Comments
The rains came yesterday and poured down upon us. It rained and rained and rained. The rain was most welcome. The grass is still brown in spots, but it looks as though most everything else has really perked up after the good drenching. We may get more rain today. The air is soupy and warm, always a good combination for pop-up storms and showers.
Thursday Travels: A picnic lunch
Posted: July 26, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in Life, Digital Art, Earth, Flashbacks, hiking, home, nature, Photography, Spirit, Spring, Summer, Thursday Travels, travel, Walking, water, weather | Tags: Alma, Bay of Fundy, birds, Canada, flowers, Fundy National Park, goldfinch, Hiking, MaidinSun Photography, Maritimes, nature, New Brunswick, Outdoors, Photography, Robin, spring, travel, trees, water, wildflowers, woods 24 Comments
A picnic table near Point Wolfe. Fundy National Park. New Brunswick, Canada.
When we last left off, our intrepid hikers were at the Point Wolfe Beach in Fundy National Park. (In case you missed all the excitement — heh — previous posts from my trip to the Canadian Maritimes will be linked to at the bottom of this post.) Hiking is hungry business so M and I decided to have a picnic lunch before starting our next hike.
Sitting under a tree
Posted: July 25, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Critters, Earth, Fire, home, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Summer, Walking, wandering, water, weather | Tags: flowers, Gautama Buddha, insects, MaidinSun Photography, meditation, nature, Outdoors, Photography, praying mantis, reflections, spider, trees, water, weather, wildflowers 34 Comments
Enlightened flower
Like the Guatama Buddha, I went out and sat under a tree. It wasn’t a Bodhi tree and I didn’t sit as long or come away as enlightened, but I did learn a thing or two.
Life in the Bogs 