Last call

Posted: March 19, 2013 | Author: Robin | 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.

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The Penultimate

Posted: March 18, 2013 | Author: Robin | 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).

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Spring cleaning

Posted: February 26, 2013 | Author: Robin | Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, beginnings, Earth, Fire, goals, health, home, Letting Go, Mindfulness, music, nature, Photography, Quotes, renovations, Spirit, Walking, wandering | Tags: Cleanliness, Cleveland Botanical Garden, Clutter, flowers, full moon, Home, MaidinSun Photography, moonrise, music, nature, Outdoors, Photography, quotes, Red-tailed Hawk, spring cleaning, sunrise, Wendell Berry, winter | 40 Comments

From the archives. Crocus, Spring 2009.

Don’t own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.

~ Wendell Berry, Farming: a hand book

Somewhere, sometime, I read something that suggested one’s outer environment is a reflection of one’s inner state of being. If there is any truth to that, my inner state of being must have been chaotic, cluttered, disorganized, and in need of a good dusting or scrubbing. My inner being was holding on to “fat clothes,” too. Expansion of the inner being is no problem, but my outer being needs to let go of such things. There is no going back.

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Through the looking glass

Posted: February 9, 2013 | Author: Robin | Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Abstracts, Adventures in art, Air, Daily Walk, Digital Art, Earth, Fire, Fracking, goals, home, Letting Go, Love, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, snow, Spirit, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass, Capture Your 365, Lewis Carroll, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, quotes, self portrait, snow, water, weather, winter | 32 Comments

Multiple personalities

I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.

~ Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass

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Sunday signage, wind, and flurries

Posted: January 20, 2013 | Author: Robin | 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?

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What’s for dinner?

Posted: January 12, 2013 | Author: Robin | Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in Cooking, Earth, Fire, food, goals, health, Healthful Living Plan, home, Karma's Photo Hunt, Photography, Quotes, Spirit, water, winter | Tags: Caldo Verde, Cook, Dinner, food, Kent, MaidinSun Photography, Orson Welles, Oscar Wilde, Photography, Post Punk Kitchen, quotes | 41 Comments

New Year’s Day dinner. Field Roast with apples and sauerkraut.

You can’t possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It’s absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.

~ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde wasn’t quite right. Vegetarians (and people like that) don’t go without their dinners either (most of the time), but I imagine some people don’t consider a vegetarian meal a true meal in and of itself (and would probably walk away from the table hungry because they don’t consider it a true meal). The other thing he didn’t mention is that some vegetarians forget all about photographing their meals and find themselves nearly finished eating before they do remember. Ooops. Too late.

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