Last call
Posted: March 19, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in art, Adventures in Life, Air, beginnings, Earth, endings, Fire, goals, home, Letting Go, life, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: Blog, clouds, Colorado, Hiking, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, rain, reflections, snow, trees, water, weather, winter 56 Comments
The end
There are things we never want to let go of, people we never want to leave behind. But keep in mind that letting go isn’t the end of the world; it’s the beginning of a new life.
~ Unattributed
So. This is it. My last post here at Life in the Bogs. From here on out, you will find me at Breezes at Dawn, my new blog home. Please join me there so we can continue our adventures together.
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).
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.
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
Bye, bye, bunny
Posted: January 21, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Critters, Daily Walk, Digital Art, Earth, endings, home, Letting Go, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Walking, water, weather, winter | Tags: Animal, birds, clouds, Lewis Carroll, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, rabbit, snow, trees, water, weather, winter 19 Comments
Winter Morning
The geese arrived early this morning, as they have every morning for the past few days. It’s the same group, or at least I think it is because the banded goose was with them. They hung out in the only remaining open patch of water on the pond. It’s gone now, the open patch of water. The geese are gone, too. They took off as soon as they saw me slowly meandering their way. We have an understanding now. I let them stay for a little while, and they leave when it’s time.
Death of a cardinal
Posted: January 15, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, Critters, Daily Walk, Digital Art, Earth, endings, Fire, home, Letting Go, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Walking, water, weather, winter | Tags: Animal Speak, Bird, clouds, MaidinSun Photography, Marcus Aurelius, nature, Northern Cardinal, Outdoors, Pema Chödrön, Photography, pond, quotes, Ted Andrews, trees, water, weather, winter 37 Comments
Shadows
It’s said that when we die, the four elements — earth, air, fire and water — dissolve one by one, each into the other, and finally just dissolve into space. But while we’re living, we share the energy that makes everything, from a blade of grass to an elephant, grow and live and then inevitably wear out and die. This energy, this life force, creates the whole world.
~Pema Chödrön
Life in the Bogs 