Thursday Travels: Cape Breton sunrise
Posted: January 31, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in Life, Air, Earth, Fire, hiking, home, nature, Photography, Quotes, snow, Spirit, Spring, Thursday Travels, travel, Vacation, water, weather, winter | Tags: Canada, Cape Breton Highlands, fog, Hiking, John Ruskin, MaidinSun Photography, Margaret Atwood, nature, Nova Scotia, Outdoors, Photography, quotes, snow, spring, sunrise, sunset, Thursday Travels, travel, trees, water, weather, winter 39 Comments
South Harbor sunset. Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. (7 June 2012)
In the last edition of Thursday Travels, M and I had just arrived at the cabin we rented on South Harbor, not far from the Cabot Trail in Nova Scotia. We got there just in time for sunset although we didn’t see the sun itself. Just a band of light on the horizon.
Fire and rain
Posted: January 30, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, Daily Walk, Earth, Fire, home, nature, Photography, Spirit, Walking, water, weather, winter | Tags: bowling, clouds, Lousy Bowler, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, rain, trees, water, weather, winter 36 Comments
A rainy sunset
Yesterday’s sunset was incredible. The beauty was not in the sky as much as it was in the meadows and the trees, golden raindrops shimmering from branches and leaves, and dried grasses and flowers.
Dreaming
Posted: January 29, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Abstracts, Adventures in art, Air, Art, Daily Walk, Digital Art, Earth, endings, Fire, home, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, snow, Spirit, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: Breezy Acres, Chapin Forest Reservation, clouds, cross-country skiing, Dishwasher, Douglas Adams, Edgar Allan Poe, Jorge Luis Borges, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, pond, quotes, rain, reflections, snow, trees, water, weather, winter, woods 46 Comments
Fairy tale woods
life is a garden,
not a roadwe enter and exit
through the same gatewandering,
where we go matters less
than what we notice.~ Bokonon
Rain and slush
Posted: January 28, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, Critters, Daily Walk, Digital Art, Earth, endings, exercise, home, Letting Go, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, snow, Spirit, Walking, water, weather, winter | Tags: birds, Chapin Forest Reservation, clouds, cross-country skiing, fog, Hiking, Joseph Conrad, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Ohio, Outdoors, Photography, pond, rain, Sears, snow, trees, water, weather, winter 32 Comments
Sun in the clouds.
I’m writing this during the early morning hours. It’s just starting to lighten up outside. Before I could see what was going on outdoors, the local weather folks on television informed me that the icy rain part of the weather front moving through had flown east of us and the precipitation had turned to plain old rain. Fog is rising from the snow cover. It’s going to be a slushy day.
Wintering
Posted: January 25, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, Critters, Daily Walk, Earth, home, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, snow, Spirit, Today's Joys, Walking, water, weather | Tags: birds, clouds, Dark-eyed Junco, Henry David Thoreau, House Finch, Isaac Newton, Lake-effect snow, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, Red Cardinal, snow, Snow Day, trees, water, weather, William Stafford, winter 43 Comments
Snow day
A Valley Like This
Sometimes you look at an empty valley like this,
and suddenly the air is filled with snow.
That is the way the whole world happened —
there was nothing, and then…But maybe some time you will look out and even
the mountains are gone, the world become nothing
again. What can a person do to help
bring back the world?We have to watch it and then look at each other.
Together we hold it close and carefully
save it, like a bubble that can disappear
if we don’t watch out.Please think about this as you go on. Breathe on the world.
Hold out your hands to it. When mornings and evenings
roll along, watch how they open and close, how they
invite you to the long party that your life is.~ William Stafford
Winter time
Posted: January 24, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, beginnings, Critters, Daily Walk, Earth, Fire, home, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, snow, Spirit, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: birds, clouds, Haruki Murakami, Hiking, Lao Tzu, Lauren Oliver, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, quotes, snow, Snowsquall, Susan Sontag, T. S. Eliot, time, trees, water, weather, winter 54 Comments
Sunrise through a frosted window
It is a pretty day here in the Bogs. Mostly sunny with occasional snow squalls. I like watching the squalls move in on big, fluffy clouds of white and gray and blue.
Pause
Posted: January 22, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, Earth, endings, Fire, home, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, Quotes, Spirit, Spring, travel, water, winter | Tags: Canada, Cape Breton, Cape Breton Highlands, clouds, Howard Thurman, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Nova Scotia, Outdoors, Pause, Photography, reflections, Sebastian Vettel, spring, sunset, travel, trees, water, winter 26 Comments
South Harbor. Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. 7 June 2012.
Twilight — a time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from too much light or too much dark, if twilight were not.
~ Howard Thurman
Life in the Bogs 