Snow and geese
Posted: March 3, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in Life, Air, Critters, Daily Walk, Earth, family, grandparenthood, home, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, snow, Spirit, travel, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: birds, Canada Goose, geese, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, snow, water, weather, winter 30 Comments
Today’s view of the pond
To what can our life on earth be likened?
To a flock of geese,
alighting on the snow.
Sometimes leaving a trace of their passage.~ Su shi
The snow is flying on this cold Sunday in March, and I’m just settling back in at home after spending the weekend with my granddaughters and their parents. It was lovely, and one of my favorite ways to spend a weekend.
A family holiday
Posted: December 16, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Autumn, celebrations, Earth, fall, family, Fire, grandparenthood, Gratitude, holidays, home, Love, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Walking, wandering, water, weather | Tags: autumn, Erma Bombeck, family, Frederick Buechner, MaidinSun Photography, Maya Angelou, Mother Teresa, nature, Outdoors, Photography, quotes 26 Comments
Maddy’s flowers*
You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.
~ Frederick Buechner
*Dandelions are blooming like crazy across the lawn, on the pathways, in the meadows, and around the pond.
Imitating Mother Nature
Posted: December 14, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Autumn, celebrations, Daily Walk, Earth, fall, family, Fire, grandparenthood, holidays, home, Mindfulness, Photography, pond, Spirit, Walking, wandering, water, weather | Tags: autumn, Christmas, flowers, frost, Holiday, MaidinSun Photography, Mother Nature, nature, Outdoors, Photography, water, weather 32 Comments
Mother Nature’s Christmas decorations
Yesterday afternoon, as the sun hit the Christmas decorations adorning the yard and home of the neighbor across the street, the sparkle and shimmer reminded me of the morning frost at sunrise. I delighted in the idea that Christmas decorations are a way of imitating Mother Nature’s glitz and glam. You might think I was the first person to think of this idea. You’d be wrong, of course, but you might think it based on how delighted I was with the thought. Read the rest of this entry »
Spectral morning
Posted: December 3, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, Autumn, Daily Walk, Digital Art, Earth, fall, family, grandparenthood, home, Local Tourists, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, travel, Walking, wandering, water, weather | Tags: autumn, clouds, Columbus, Eugene O'Neill, fog, Franklin Park Conservatory, Julien Green, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, rain, reflections, travel, trees, water, weather, woods 25 Comments
Borderline
Last night while I was sleeping the pond, the woods, and the meadows disappeared into mystical, magical fog, altering the landscape and moving the boundaries. When I walked around the pond and into the woods this morning, I, too, vanished into the mist, wandering in a world that was familiarly unfamiliar.
Dear Mom
Posted: September 9, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in Life, Air, Critters, Earth, family, goals, grandparenthood, home, Letting Go, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Summer, Walking, wandering, water | Tags: birds, death, flowers, great blue heron, Love, MaidinSun Photography, Mother, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, reflections, Summer, Sunflower, Thich Nhat Hanh, water, wildflowers 27 Comments
A sunflower for remembrance.
Well, it’s been three years now since you died. This is probably going to be the last year I’ll write to you on the date of your death. From now on, I’d rather celebrate the anniversary of your birth, and your life. I think of you often, and I’d rather not dwell on the cancer, the hospice room, and the sadness. I don’t believe you would have wanted that from any of us. I will, however, always remember those beautiful sunflowers.
Medina Raptor Center
Posted: August 29, 2012 Filed under: 365 Life in the Bogs Challenge, Adventures in Life, Air, Critters, Earth, family, grandparenthood, home, Local Tourists, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Summer, Walking | Tags: Bald Eagle, birds, clouds, Great Horned Owl, J. M. Barrie, Medina Raptor Center, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, Red-tailed Hawk, Summer, Terry Tempest Williams, trees, water 26 Comments
At the Medina Raptor Center
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
(Quote is from the sign posted on the tree in the above photo.)
Playing with bubbles
Posted: July 28, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in art, Adventures in Life, Air, Digital Art, Earth, family, grandparenthood, home, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Summer, Walking, wandering, water, weather | Tags: bubbles, Columbus, Digital Art, George Santayana, grandparenthood, nature, Outdoors, Photography, play, quotes, reflections, water 37 Comments
A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.
~ George Santayana
Life in the Bogs 