Thursday Travels: More from the Glasgow Lakes Look-Off Trail
Posted: February 28, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in Life, Digital Art, Earth, Fears, Fire, hiking, home, nature, Photography, Quotes, snow, Spirit, travel, Vacation, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: Canada, Canadian Maritimes, Cape Breton, Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Debbie Ford, e e cummings, fear, Hiking, MaidinSun Photography, Marion Woodman, nature, Nova Scotia, Outdoors, Photography, snow, spring, winter 13 Comments
(8 June 2012. Glasgow Lakes Look-Off Trail. Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Nova Scotia.)
During the last Thursday Travels post, M and I were still making our way along the Glasgow Lakes Look-Off Trail. The trail was getting wetter and wetter as we made our way up and along the highlands plateau.
In an abstract frame of mind
Posted: February 27, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Abstracts, Adventures in art, Air, Daily Walk, Digital Art, Earth, Fire, home, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: Abstract art, birds, David Lynch, flowers, goose, Lucian Freud, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Outdoors, Pablo Picasso, Photography, pond, rain, reflections, water, weather, wildflowers, winter 36 Comments
Mirror, mirror. (An abstract created from reflections in a puddle on the front lawn.)
It is gray and windy here in the Bogs today. But I got lucky. When I stepped outside for my walk late this morning, I caught a patch of blue sky between the dark, gray clouds, and a few rays of sunshine streamed down for a minute or two.
Spring cleaning
Posted: February 26, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, beginnings, Earth, Fire, goals, health, home, Letting Go, Mindfulness, music, nature, Photography, Quotes, renovations, Spirit, Walking, wandering | Tags: Cleanliness, Cleveland Botanical Garden, Clutter, flowers, full moon, Home, MaidinSun Photography, moonrise, music, nature, Outdoors, Photography, quotes, Red-tailed Hawk, spring cleaning, sunrise, Wendell Berry, winter 40 Comments
From the archives. Crocus, Spring 2009.
Don’t own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.
~ Wendell Berry, Farming: a hand book
Somewhere, sometime, I read something that suggested one’s outer environment is a reflection of one’s inner state of being. If there is any truth to that, my inner state of being must have been chaotic, cluttered, disorganized, and in need of a good dusting or scrubbing. My inner being was holding on to “fat clothes,” too. Expansion of the inner being is no problem, but my outer being needs to let go of such things. There is no going back.
This is not the post I planned for today
Posted: February 25, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, beginnings, Daily Walk, Digital Art, Earth, Fire, home, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Today's Joys, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: birds, clouds, flowers, Hafiz, Henry Beston, MaidinSun Photography, Nathaniel Hawthorne, nature, Nora Roberts, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, trees, water, weather, winter, woods 38 Comments
Up in the clouds
Do you see that out there? The strange, unfamiliar light? It’s called the sun. Let’s go get us a little.
~ Nora Roberts, The Hollow
The sun came to visit today, and turned the sky the most amazing shades of blue. Although I had plenty of work to do indoors, I couldn’t resist the call to go out and play.
Spring auras
Posted: February 24, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, beginnings, Daily Walk, Digital Art, Earth, Fire, home, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, snow, Spirit, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: birds, clouds, crocus, flowers, MaidinSun Photography, Margaret Wise Brown, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, snow, trees, water, weather, winter, woods, Xiao Hong 29 Comments
Crossing the frozen tundra
When the groundhog casts his shadow
And the small birds sing
And the pussywillows happen
And the sun shines warm
And when the peepers peep
Then it is Spring~ Margaret Wise Brown
You would never know it from the feel and look of the place, but spring is out there. The earth is quickening, the plants are stirring, and the wildlife seems to have sensed that change is coming. Read the rest of this entry »
The banded goose and other tales
Posted: February 22, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, Critters, Daily Walk, Earth, home, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, snow, Spirit, Walking, water, weather, winter | Tags: Akimiski Island, Bird Banding Laboratory, birds, Canada, goose, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Nunavut, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, rain, snow, water, weather, wildflowers, winter 33 Comments
Geese on ice
Do you remember the banded goose? (That link takes you to a photo. If you want to see the original posts regarding the banded goose, they are here, here, and here.) In case you don’t remember or you’re new here, and you don’t feel like following the links, the basic story is this: A goose with a band around its neck visited the pond back in January, and I reported the goose to the Bird Banding Laboratory to help with their research as well as to see if I could get any information about the goose. Read the rest of this entry »
Ramshackle explorations
Posted: February 20, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in art, Daily Walk, Digital Art, Earth, home, Letting Go, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, snow, Spirit, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: Beauty, falling down, Hiking, Houses, Leonard Koren, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, snow, Wabi-sabi, water, weather, winter 37 Comments
Going within
Beauty can be coaxed out of ugliness. Wabi-sabi is ambivalent about separating beauty from non-beauty or ugliness. The beauty of wabi-sabi is in one respect, the condition of coming to terms with what you consider ugly. Wabi-sabi suggests that beauty is a dynamic event that occurs between you and something else. Beauty can spontaneously occur at any moment given the proper circumstances, context, or point of view. Beauty is thus an altered state of consciousness, an extraordinary moment of poetry and grace.
~ Leonard Koren, Wabi-Sabi: For Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
Life in the Bogs 