Hello 2013!
Posted: January 1, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, beginnings, celebrations, Critters, Daily Walk, Earth, hiking, holidays, home, Karma's Photo Hunt, nature, Photography, pond, snow, Spirit, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: birds, cardinals, Hiking, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, Quail Hollow State Park, snow, trees, water, weather, winter, woods 57 Comments
Snow blowing
We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives… not looking for flaws, but for potential.
~ Ellen Goodman
Happy 2013!
Happy Christmas!
Posted: December 25, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, celebrations, Daily Walk, Earth, holidays, home, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Walking, water, weather, winter | Tags: Christmas, clouds, Holiday, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, Santa Claus, snow, trees, water, weather, wildflowers, winter 25 Comments
Snowpeople are starting to appear
Merry Christmas! For those not celebrating Christmas, Merry Day!
The purple hour
Posted: December 24, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, celebrations, Daily Walk, Earth, holidays, home, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, snow, Spirit, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: Bess Streeter Aldrich, Christmas, Christmas Eve, clouds, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, reflections, snow, sunrise, trees, water, weather, wildflowers, winter 32 Comments
Christmas star
Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart…filled it, too, with a melody that would last forever.
~Bess Streeter Aldrich, Song of Years
Sunday walk
Posted: December 23, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Daily Walk, Earth, Fire, holidays, home, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, Quotes, snow, Spirit, Today's Joys, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: Andreas Feininger, Daryl Benson, Edward Abbey, light, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, snow, trees, water, weather, winter, woods 11 Comments
Snowy trail
(1) The more thoroughly a photographer explores his subject with the camera (i.e., the more pictures he makes), the more he sees and the better his chance of getting good results.
(2) Even slight changes in subject approach can make significant differences in the effect of the picture.~ Andreas Feininger, Principles of Composition in Photography
Happy Solstice
Posted: December 21, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, beginnings, celebrations, Daily Walk, Earth, holidays, home, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, snow, Spirit, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: clouds, Health, Henry David Thoreau, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, snow, trees, water, weather, winter, Winter solstice 34 Comments
Winter Solstice
It snowed and snowed, the whole world over,
Snow swept the world from end to end.
A candle burned on the table;
A candle burned.~ Boris Pasternak
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 »
Life in the Bogs 