Sunshine on a cloudy day
Posted: December 12, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, Autumn, Daily Walk, Earth, fall, Fire, home, Mindfulness, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Walking, wandering, water, weather | Tags: autumn, clouds, MaidinSun Photography, mindfulness, nature, Outdoors, Pema Chödrön, Photography, pond, quotes, reflections, Sharon Salzberg, trees, water, weather, Winter solstice, woods 26 Comments
Lake effect clouds streaming in
Yesterday afternoon brought a beautiful mix of clouds, sunshine, and lake effect snow. I was so busy posting leftovers that I didn’t get around to looking at the photos from my walk. That has turned out to be a good thing because I don’t have time to upload and sort through the photos from today’s walk.
Time in a bottle
Posted: December 10, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in art, Autumn, Digital Art, Earth, fall, home, memes, nature, Photography, Quotes, Spirit, Walking, water, weather | Tags: autumn, Collage, Daily Post, Daily Prompt, MaidinSun Photography, memories, nature, Oscar Wilde, Outdoors, Photography, quotes, Time capsule, water, weather 22 Comments
It is a rainy, dreary, doldrums kind of day here in the Bogs. Rather than write about that and show you gray, dreary, dull images, I turned to the The Daily Post for some inspiration. The Daily Prompt for today is: Time Capsule.
Blue spirits
Posted: December 9, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Abstracts, Adventures in art, Air, Autumn, Daily Walk, Digital Art, Earth, home, life, Mindfulness, music, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Today's Joys, Walking, wandering, water, weather | Tags: autumn, Béla Fleck, Cleveland Orchestra, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Osip Mandelstam, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, reflections, trees, water, weather 22 Comments
Contemplation in blue
Perhaps the whisper was born before lips,
And the leaves in treelessness circled and flew,
And those, to whom we impart our experience as bliss,
Acquire their forms before we do.~ Osip Mandelstam
The Day of Idiosyncrasy
Posted: December 7, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Autumn, celebrations, Earth, fall, Fire, home, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, travel, Walking, water, weather | Tags: autumn, Franklin Park Conservatory, garden, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, rain, water, weather 27 Comments
Frog at Creekside Park in Gahanna (Ohio)
According to the authors of the book The Secret Language of Birthdays, December 7th is the Day of Idiosyncrasy. Those born on this day are said to consider themselves different or peculiar or just plain weird.
Thursday Travels: Ferries and boats and lighthouses, oh my
Posted: December 6, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in Life, Autumn, Earth, fall, home, music, nature, Photography, Spirit, Spring, Thursday Travels, travel, Vacation, water, weather | Tags: autumn, bowling, Canada, clouds, Ferry, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Nova Scotia, Outdoors, Photography, Prince Edward Island, spring, travel, Voodoo Loons, water, weather, Wood Islands Prince Edward Island 26 Comments
Wood Islands, Prince Edward Island
Last week when we left off, M and I were getting ready to leave Prince Edward Island. After a quick visit to say goodbye to the beach, we made our way to Wood Islands, PEI to take the ferry to Caribou, Nova Scotia. (Side note: This must seem like it was the longest trip in the world, especially when you consider that this is only the half way point. We really did pack in a lot of activities each day.)
Musings
Posted: December 5, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Autumn, Daily Walk, Earth, fall, Fears, Fire, goals, home, Letting Go, Love, Mindfulness, music, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Today's Joys, Walking, wandering, water, weather | Tags: autumn, clouds, Douglas Adam, Life the Universe and Everything, MaidinSun Photography, Marianne Williamson, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, Steve Jobs, sunrise, trees, water, weather 28 Comments
Early this morning
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
~ Steve Jobs
Rambling into December
Posted: December 4, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in Life, Air, Autumn, Daily Walk, Digital Art, Earth, fall, Fire, home, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Today's Joys, Walking, wandering, water, weather | Tags: autumn, birds, clouds, Douglas Adams, Erica Jong, Fear of flying, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, sunrise, swan, trees, water, weather 16 Comments
Baby pine, future Christmas tree
December finds himself again a child
Even as he undergoes his age.
Cold and early darkness now descends,
Embracing sanctuaries of delight.
More and more he stares into the night,
Becoming less and less concerned with ends,
Emblem of the innocent as sage
Restored to wonder by what he must yield.~ Nicholas Gordon
Life in the Bogs 