Flower dreams
Posted: March 15, 2013 Filed under: 365 Life in the Bogs Challenge, Adventures in art, Adventures in Life, Air, beginnings, Daily Walk, Digital Art, Earth, Fire, Flashbacks, hiking, home, nature, Photography, Quotes, Spirit, Spring, Walking, weather, winter | Tags: Dream, flowers, Hiking, Longwood Gardens, MaidinSun Photography, Marsha Norman, Milne, nature, Outdoors, Pennsylvania, Photography, Pooh, quotes, spring, sunset, trees, weather, winter 29 Comments
Blossoms on High Street in West Chester, Pennsylvania. (April 2007)
In my dreams, I never have an age.
~ Madeleine L’Engle
Last night (well, really it was early this morning) I had a dream that was filled with flowers. Someone was teaching me to identify wildflowers by their leaves, their blossoms, and their stems. Wouldn’t it be nice to learn through dreaming and wake up with a head full of knowledge you didn’t have when you went to sleep?
Routine
Posted: January 2, 2013 Filed under: 365 Life in the Bogs Challenge, Adventures in art, Art, beginnings, Critters, Daily Walk, Earth, home, life, nature, Photography, Quotes, snow, Spirit, Walking, water, weather, winter | Tags: birds, Book review, Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, Henry Van Dyke, Hiking, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, Quail Hollow State Park, quotes, TLC Book Tours 25 Comments
Winter colors
As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.
~ Henry Van Dyke
Medina Raptor Center
Posted: August 29, 2012 Filed under: 365 Life in the Bogs Challenge, Adventures in Life, Air, Critters, Earth, family, grandparenthood, home, Local Tourists, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Summer, Walking | Tags: Bald Eagle, birds, clouds, Great Horned Owl, J. M. Barrie, Medina Raptor Center, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, Red-tailed Hawk, Summer, Terry Tempest Williams, trees, water 26 Comments
At the Medina Raptor Center
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
(Quote is from the sign posted on the tree in the above photo.)
Sunday scramble
Posted: May 27, 2012 Filed under: 365 Life in the Bogs Challenge, Adventures in art, Adventures in Life, Earth, family, Fire, friends, home, Letting Go, life, nature, Photography, Spirit, Spring, Walking, wandering, water, weather 36 Comments
And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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.
Bubbly
Posted: September 25, 2011 Filed under: 365 Life in the Bogs Challenge, Adventures in Life, Air, Autumn, beginnings, Bicycle Adventures, Critters, Earth, fall, friends, goals, home, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Walking, water, weather | Tags: bubbles, butterflies, butterfly, Flora and Fauna, Monarch, Nathaniel Hawthorne, nature, Photography, postaday2011, pumpkin, quotations, R. H. Heinlein, Rabindranath Tagore 46 Comments
The party went well. I am fairly certain a good time was had by all. Everyone looked happy. That’s usually a good sign.
365: One amazing year
Posted: September 23, 2011 Filed under: 365 Life in the Bogs Challenge, Adventures in Life, Autumn, beginnings, celebrations, Earth, endings, goals, home, nature, Photography, Spirit, Thanks!, Walking, water, weather | Tags: Photography, postaday2011 76 Comments
Well. Here it is. The last day of my year-long commitment to get outside every day and blog about it. All I can think of to say about it right now is: It has been one amazing year.
Life in the Bogs 