Lucky
Posted: March 5, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, Critters, Daily Walk, Earth, exercise, Fire, home, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Today's Joys, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: birds, Eric Kraft, Ernest Hemingway, flowers, Garrison Keillor, Hex sign, Hiking, Luck, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Pennsylvania Dutch, Photography, pond, quotes, Superstition, trees, water, weather, winter, woods 18 Comments
The Luck of the Barn
Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.
~ Garrison Keillor
Today’s Capture Your 365 prompt is Lucky, and the email suggested things such as horseshoes and four-leaf clovers and whatever might be lucky for you. M and I keep all our superstitions on the barn.
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.
Sunday signage, wind, and flurries
Posted: January 20, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, Daily Walk, Earth, exercise, Fire, goals, health, home, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, snow, Spirit, Sunday signage, Walking, wandering, water, winter | Tags: Amy Dixon, Cathe Friedrich, clouds, exercise, Fitness, George R. R. Martin, Health, J. R. R. Tolkien, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, snow, sunset, trees, Vitamix, water, weather, Wind, winter 31 Comments
As seen on a hike at Quail Hollow
Maybe it’s just me, but… doesn’t this make you wonder what kind of youth they were hunting?
Sunday Signage
Posted: January 13, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Critters, Daily Walk, Digital Art, Earth, exercise, home, Local Tourists, nature, Photography, pond, snow, Spirit, Sunday signage, Walking, water, weather, winter | Tags: black squirrel, clouds, Dix Stadium, Jane Austen, Kent, Kent Ohio, Kent State University, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, rain, snow, Sunday signage, trees, water, weather 23 Comments
I want a sign like this for my kitchen.
Angry people are not always wise.
~ Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
When I was young, and quite possibly stupid, I would become passionate in my anger during some of the arguments between M and myself. Consequently, objects (and implements) were known to suddenly take flight (and no, we did not have a poltergeist living with us). When I saw this sign while out on our walk yesterday, I laughed and laughed, thinking how fun it would be to have such a sign in my kitchen. I no longer throw things out of anger, but the occasional implement has been known to go flying out of my klutzy hands when I’m prepping food.
This, that, and the other thing
Posted: January 11, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, Bicycle Adventures, Critters, Daily Walk, Earth, exercise, goals, health, home, Love, Meditation, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, snow, Spirit, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: Bill Watterson, birds, bowling, Henry David Thoreau, ice, MaidinSun Photography, meditation, Mother Teresa, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, rain, reflections, Ricki Lake, snow, trees, water, weather, winter 41 Comments
Reflections on ice
Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you’re just a reflection of him?
~ Bill Watterson
The wonders of winter
Posted: December 30, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Daily Walk, Earth, exercise, Fire, hiking, home, Local Tourists, nature, Photography, pond, snow, Spirit, Today's Joys, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: clouds, cross-country skiing, Hiking, Holden Arboretum, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Photography, pond, Quail Hollow State Park, Ski, snow, trees, water, weather, winter, winter landscape 39 Comments
You probably don’t have to be a long-time visitor to Life in the Bogs to know winter is my favorite season. I love it, most especially when there is snow. Snow is necessary for a proper, enjoyable winter. I’ve lived in places where they have rainy, dreary winters, and that’s no fun at all. If gray, wet days are what you experience during the winter months, I can understand not loving the season.
A Friday edition of Thursday Travels: The Ceilidh Trail
Posted: December 28, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in Life, beginnings, Daily Walk, Earth, exercise, health, hiking, holidaze, home, nature, Photography, snow, Spirit, Spring, Thursday Travels, travel, Walking, water, weather, winter | Tags: Cabot Trail, Canada, Cape Breton, Cape Breton Island, Ceilidh Trail, clouds, cross-country skiing, fog, Hiking, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Nova Scotia, Outdoors, Photography, snow, spring, Strait of Canso, Sunrise Trail, travel, trees, water, weather, winter 18 Comments
Fog and mist on the Sunrise Trail. Nova Scotia. June 2012.
It’s been a while since I’ve done a Thursday Travels post. I know. It’s Friday, not Thursday. But I’m off skiing this afternoon and won’t have time to post the photos from that little adventure so you’re stuck with a scheduled post and some travel photos from Nova Scotia today. In my last Thursday Travels post (Ferries and boats and lighthouses, oh my), M and I had just landed in Nova Scotia. We left Caribou, Nova Scotia, and went east on the Sunrise Trail, making our way towards Cape Breton.
Life in the Bogs 