The Penultimate
Posted: March 18, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in Life, Air, beginnings, celebrations, Critters, Digital Art, Earth, endings, Fire, goals, Gratitude, home, Letting Go, life, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, snow, Spirit, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: Canadian Maritimes, flowers, Hiking, MaidinSun Photography, NaBloPoMo, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, rain, Ralph Waldo Emerson, reflections, San Diego, snow, trees, water, weather, wildflowers, winter, woods 43 Comments
Let’s cross the bridge to the past. (Somewhere in Pennsylvania, sometime in September of 2006.)
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.
~ Ivy Baker Priest
Back in September of 2006, in anticipation of a temporary move to West Chester, Pennsylvania, I started a little blog called Life in the Bogs. It was not meant to be anything more than an online newsletter for family and friends so they could keep up with M and I as we went on our sabbatical adventures. This was not my first experience with blogging. I’ve been doing it in some form since 1999. But Life in the Bogs was the first blog I created under my own name (rather than a pseudonym).
Fancy a short walk around the pond?
Posted: January 14, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, celebrations, Daily Walk, Digital Art, Earth, Fire, home, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: birthday, clouds, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, reflections, trees, water, weather, winter 40 Comments
Rippled Reflection
Bundle up. It’s cold here in the Bogs today. The cold is especially shocking after the weekend warm-up. You’ll need a hat and gloves along with a nice, warm coat or jacket and your wellies. It’s very wet and muddy out there. Boggy, even.
Hello 2013!
Posted: January 1, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, beginnings, celebrations, Critters, Daily Walk, Earth, hiking, holidays, home, Karma's Photo Hunt, nature, Photography, pond, snow, Spirit, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: birds, cardinals, Hiking, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, Quail Hollow State Park, snow, trees, water, weather, winter, woods 57 Comments
Snow blowing
We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives… not looking for flaws, but for potential.
~ Ellen Goodman
Happy 2013!
Happy Christmas!
Posted: December 25, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, celebrations, Daily Walk, Earth, holidays, home, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Walking, water, weather, winter | Tags: Christmas, clouds, Holiday, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, Santa Claus, snow, trees, water, weather, wildflowers, winter 25 Comments
Snowpeople are starting to appear
Merry Christmas! For those not celebrating Christmas, Merry Day!
The purple hour
Posted: December 24, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, celebrations, Daily Walk, Earth, holidays, home, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, snow, Spirit, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: Bess Streeter Aldrich, Christmas, Christmas Eve, clouds, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, reflections, snow, sunrise, trees, water, weather, wildflowers, winter 32 Comments
Christmas star
Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart…filled it, too, with a melody that would last forever.
~Bess Streeter Aldrich, Song of Years
Happy Solstice
Posted: December 21, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, beginnings, celebrations, Daily Walk, Earth, holidays, home, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, snow, Spirit, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: clouds, Health, Henry David Thoreau, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, snow, trees, water, weather, winter, Winter solstice 34 Comments
Winter Solstice
It snowed and snowed, the whole world over,
Snow swept the world from end to end.
A candle burned on the table;
A candle burned.~ Boris Pasternak
A family holiday
Posted: December 16, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Autumn, celebrations, Earth, fall, family, Fire, grandparenthood, Gratitude, holidays, home, Love, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Walking, wandering, water, weather | Tags: autumn, Erma Bombeck, family, Frederick Buechner, MaidinSun Photography, Maya Angelou, Mother Teresa, nature, Outdoors, Photography, quotes 26 Comments
Maddy’s flowers*
You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.
~ Frederick Buechner
*Dandelions are blooming like crazy across the lawn, on the pathways, in the meadows, and around the pond.
Life in the Bogs 