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?
Thursday Travels: The Cabot Trail
Posted: January 10, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in Life, Earth, Flashbacks, home, nature, Photography, Quotes, Spirit, Spring, Thursday Travels, travel, Vacation, water, weather | Tags: Alexander Graham Bell, Cabot Trail, Canada, Cape Breton, Cape Breton Highlands, Cape Breton Highlands National Park, clouds, fog, MaidinSun Photography, mountains, nature, Nova Scotia, Outdoors, Photography, quotes, spring, travel, trees, water, weather 23 Comments
The shipwreck (on the right, in the water, in the distance).
I have travelled around the globe. I have seen the Canadian Rockies, the American Rockies, the Andes and the Alps and the Highlands of Scotland; but for simple beauty, Cape Breton outrivals them all.
~ Alexander Graham Bell
During the last Thursday Travels (A Friday edition of Thursday Travels: The Ceilidh Trail), we left off at the shipwreck, just after visiting the Glenora Distillery. It was shortly after this that we began our trek (okay, it was really a ride) on the Cabot Trail.
Thursday Travels: The floating boardwalk
Posted: October 25, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in art, Adventures in Life, Air, Autumn, Critters, Digital Art, Earth, Flashbacks, hiking, home, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Spring, Thursday Travels, travel, Vacation, Walking, water, weather | Tags: autumn, birds, Canada, Greenwich, Greenwich Dunes, Hiking, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, Prince Edward Island, Prince Edward Island National Park, rain, spring, Virginia Woolf, water, weather 27 Comments
Looking down from the floating boardwalk. Prince Edward Island.
Last week I left us standing on the floating boardwalk in Greenwich, part of the Prince Edward Island National Park system. The floating boardwalk takes you over Bowley Pond and eventually to the beach.
Thursday Travels: A picnic lunch
Posted: July 26, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in Life, Digital Art, Earth, Flashbacks, hiking, home, nature, Photography, Spirit, Spring, Summer, Thursday Travels, travel, Walking, water, weather | Tags: Alma, Bay of Fundy, birds, Canada, flowers, Fundy National Park, goldfinch, Hiking, MaidinSun Photography, Maritimes, nature, New Brunswick, Outdoors, Photography, Robin, spring, travel, trees, water, wildflowers, woods 24 Comments
A picnic table near Point Wolfe. Fundy National Park. New Brunswick, Canada.
When we last left off, our intrepid hikers were at the Point Wolfe Beach in Fundy National Park. (In case you missed all the excitement — heh — previous posts from my trip to the Canadian Maritimes will be linked to at the bottom of this post.) Hiking is hungry business so M and I decided to have a picnic lunch before starting our next hike.
Everybody needs beauty (Thursday Travels)
Posted: May 24, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in Life, Critters, Flashbacks, hiking, home, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Spring, Summer, Thursday Travels, travel, Walking, water, weather | Tags: birds, Calhan Paint Mines Interpretive Park, Canada geese, Colorado, Hiking, John Muir, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, reflections, spring, travel 23 Comments
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
~ John Muir
Moving inward (Thursday Travels)
Posted: May 17, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in Life, Earth, Flashbacks, hiking, home, nature, Photography, Spirit, Spring, Summer, Thursday Travels, travel, Walking, wandering | Tags: Calhan Paint Mines Interpretive Park, Colorado, El Paso County Colorado, flowers, Hiking, Mother Nature, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, spring, Summer, travel 34 Comments
Finally, we’re going to walk the interior portion of the Paint Mines. (If you’re new here and want to catch up, you’ll find a list of previous Thursday Travels at the bottom of this post. Or, if you don’t want to catch up, all you need to know is that we’re at the Calhan Paint Mines in El Paso County, Colorado.)
Some of my favorite things
Posted: April 28, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in Life, Critters, Digital Art, Earth, family, Fire, Flashbacks, food, friends, goals, home, Karma's Photo Hunt, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Spring, water, weather | Tags: Collage, Digital Collage, favorite things, food, Karma's Photo Hunt, nature, Outdoors, Photo Hunt, Photography, pond, snow, spring, water 25 Comments
Karma’s Photo Hunt this month is to photograph four of your favorite things. I thought this would be really easy, but that turned out not to be true. I have so many favorite things (and yes, that would include brown paper packages tied up with string…lol!) that I couldn’t make a decision about which four to feature. I’ve cheated a bit by making some collages (with some new photos, but most from the archives) under general categories that have allowed me to include lots of my favorite things. Since Karma specifically said “things,” I have not included people. My family, of course, are tops on any list, but they are not things and that eliminated them automatically. It made it easier for me, too, because none of them (as far as I know) wish to appear on the blog. I don’t know why not. I might make them rich and famous. Okay, maybe not. I don’t have that much blog traffic (another reason for them not to worry about showing their mugs around here).
The collage up above features one of my most favorite of things: The pond and the land here at Breezy Acres, in all seasons and all times of the day. Even when I’m complaining about the weather, I love it here.
Life in the Bogs 