Sunset in the patio garden
Posted: November 9, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, Autumn, cats, Critters, Earth, exercise, Fire, garden, goals, health, home, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Walking, water, weather | Tags: autumn, garden, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, pond, quotes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, reflections, trees, water, weather 42 Comments
Bella at sunset
Each moment of the year has its own beauty, a picture which was never before and shall never be seen again.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Monday meditation
Posted: September 17, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Air, Digital Art, Earth, Fire, garden, home, Meditation, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Summer, Walking, water, weather | Tags: flowers, James Turrell, MaidinSun Photography, meditation, nature, Osho, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, Summer, trees, water, woods 26 Comments
Morning glow
When you are full of meditativeness, it means you are at the very center of your being. The experiencing of the very center of your being starts blossoming into love, into laughter, into a song, into a dance.
~ Osho
A lovely weekend
Posted: September 16, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in art, Adventures in Life, Air, Bicycle Adventures, Critters, Digital Art, Earth, Fire, food, garden, gardening, Harvest, health, home, Local Tourists, nature, Photography, Spirit, Summer, Walking, water, weather | Tags: 69 Taps, Akron, clouds, cycling, food, garden, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Ohio & Erie Canal, Outdoors, Photography, Summer, sunset, The Lockview, Towpath Trail, water, weather 28 Comments
Somewhere on the Towpath Trail.
We were blessed with beautiful weather this weekend. M and I talked about going up to Cleveland for the Ingenuity Festival, but decided we had too much to do to take the hour trip up (and hour trip back). Maybe next year we’ll make it.
Canning
Posted: September 11, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Air, canning & freezing, Critters, Digital Art, Earth, Fire, food, garden, gardening, Harvest, home, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Summer, Walking, water, weather | Tags: birds, food, garden, Henry David Thoreau, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, reflections, Summer, tea, water, weather 17 Comments
Iced tea on the deck
It’s that time of year again. The tomatoes need to be canned. The peppers need to be frozen. Apples need to be turned into applesauce.
The subtlety of nature
Posted: August 26, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in Life, Air, Autumn, Critters, Earth, Fire, garden, home, Letting Go, Local Tourists, Photography, pond, Spirit, Summer, Walking, wandering, water, weather | Tags: American Goldfinch, autumn, birds, Cleveland, dragonfly, elements, flowers, Gnome, Greater Cleveland Aquarium, insects, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, praying mantis, Summer, water, weather, wildflowers 27 Comments
Fiery dragonfly
You can find it in the little things.
In the garden
Posted: August 13, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Digital Art, Earth, Fire, food, garden, gardening, goals, Harvest, health, healthful diet, home, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Summer, Walking, water, weather | Tags: flowers, garden, gardening, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, Summer, trees, vegetables, water, weather 35 Comments
When you’re cooking with food as alive as this — these gorgeous and semigorgeous fruits and leaves and flesh — you’re in no danger of mistaking it for a commodity, or a fuel, or a collection of chemical nutrients. No, in the eye of the cook or the gardener… this food reveals itself for what it is: no mere thing but a web of relationships among a great many living beings, some of them human, some not, but each of them dependent on each other, and all of them ultimately rooted in soil and nourished by sunlight.
~ Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto
Some flowers on a hot day
Posted: July 3, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Digital Art, Earth, Fire, garden, home, Local Tourists, nature, Photography, Spirit, Spring, travel, Walking, water, weather | Tags: Cleveland, Cleveland Botanical Garden, flowers, garden, nature, New Jersey, Orchid Mania, orchids, Photography, spring 11 Comments
Today seems like a good day to take a short walk back through time and to the Cleveland Botanical Garden. I still have quite a few orchid photos left from Orchid Mania that I need to sort through, and I started to do just that prior to going off on our Canadian adventures. I found this post tucked away, waiting for me to do something with it.
Life in the Bogs 