The Penultimate
Posted: March 18, 2013 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).
A walk with gratitude
Posted: February 5, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, Daily Walk, Earth, Gratitude, home, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, snow, Spirit, Today's Joys, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: clouds, flowers, Hiking, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, snow, water, weather, wildflowers, winter 23 Comments
Early morning tea
When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for the food and the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
~ Tecumseh
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.
Wintry magic in the meadows
Posted: December 13, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Autumn, Daily Walk, Earth, fall, Fire, Gratitude, home, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Today's Joys, Walking, wandering, water, weather | Tags: autumn, bokeh, fairy, flowers, frost, light, magic, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, sunrise, water, weather, wildflowers 32 Comments
Shades of blue
Bundle up. We’re going on an early morning walk and it’s cold. In the 20’s cold. Dress in layers and be sure to include a hat and warm gloves or mittens. I’m wearing my mitten-gloves with a pair of liner gloves underneath because I’ll be taking photos and experience has taught me to protect my fingers.
Wishing you…
Posted: November 21, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in Life, Autumn, celebrations, Earth, fall, family, Fire, Gratitude, holidays, home, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, travel, Walking, water | Tags: autumn, Holiday, MaidinSun Photography, nature, New Jersey, Outdoors, Pennsylvania, Photography, pond, reflections, sunrise, sunset, Thanksgiving, travel, trees, water 51 Comments
Somewhere in Pennsylvania. October 2012.
By the time this scheduled post goes out, I will be somewhere in Pennsylvania, heading east towards New Jersey to spend Thanksgiving Day with family. The house-sitter should be all settled in, ready to enjoy a few days by the pond and with the kitties. She’s going to have some nice weather. It should be nice back east too.
Checking in with November
Posted: November 20, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in Cooking, Air, Autumn, Daily Walk, Earth, fall, Gratitude, home, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Today's Joys, Walking, wandering, water, weather | Tags: Andrew Wyeth, autumn, clouds, MaidinSun Photography, nature, November, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, reflections, trees, walking, water, weather 20 Comments
A misty November morning
I do an awful lot of thinking and dreaming about things in the past and the future — the timelessness of the rocks and the hills — all the people who have existed there. I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape — the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.
~ Andrew Wyeth
After Sandy
Posted: October 30, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in Life, Air, Autumn, Daily Walk, Earth, fall, family, Fears, Gratitude, home, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Walking, water, weather | Tags: autumn, clouds, fall foliage, Hurricane Sandy, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, rain, trees, water, weather, woods 33 Comments
Part of the storm preparations. (The disco tub half full with water we might have needed if the power had gone out.)
Sandy didn’t quite live up to her hype here in the Bogs. I am grateful for that. I know she was much, much rougher on those closer to where she came to shore. Family and friends back east are without power, but everybody is okay. I am most especially grateful for that.
Life in the Bogs 