This, that, and the other thing
Posted: January 11, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, Bicycle Adventures, Critters, Daily Walk, Earth, exercise, goals, health, home, Love, Meditation, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, snow, Spirit, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: Bill Watterson, birds, bowling, Henry David Thoreau, ice, MaidinSun Photography, meditation, Mother Teresa, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, rain, reflections, Ricki Lake, snow, trees, water, weather, winter 41 Comments
Reflections on ice
Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you’re just a reflection of him?
~ Bill Watterson
Random thoughts, random images
Posted: November 16, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, Earth, fall, Fire, food, home, Meditation, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Walking, water, weather | Tags: autumn, birds, blanching broccoli, broccoli, clouds, food, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, pond, Recipe, reflections, trees, water, weather 36 Comments
Reminds me of the bonfire
I have a bunch of leftover images and thoughts from the past week, and thought I’d see if I can string them together randomly in a way that makes some sort of sense. Or not. Who says a blog post has to make sense?
An invitation
Posted: November 11, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, Autumn, Daily Walk, Earth, fall, family, Fire, home, Meditation, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Walking, wandering, water, weather | Tags: autumn, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, reflections, trees, walking, water, weather, woods 40 Comments
Shadows on pines
Join me on my morning walk. I know it may be afternoon, evening, or even night where you are now, but we’ll pretend it’s just after the break of day. We will walk out into the stillness of the early morning, just after the sun peeks over the neighbor’s house across the street. Shadows appear on the pine trees as we slowly make our way down the sledding hill towards the pond. The hill itself is shadowed as well, but the sun has lit up the pond and the trees and the meadows surrounding it. It’s a glorious day.
Monday meditation
Posted: October 29, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, Critters, Daily Walk, Digital Art, Earth, fall, home, Meditation, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Walking, wandering, water, weather | Tags: autumn, birds, clouds, fall foliage, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, rain, trees, water, weather 30 Comments
If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Earth’s eye
Posted: October 20, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, Autumn, current events, Digital Art, Earth, fall, Fears, Fire, hiking, home, Letting Go, Meditation, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, rants, Spirit, Walking, water | Tags: Aldo Leopold, autumn, clouds, fall foliage, Fracking, Henry David Thoreau, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, Quail Hollow State Park, quotes, reflections, water 42 Comments
A lake is the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
~ Henry David Thoreau, Walden, “The Ponds” (1854)
If you live in northeast Ohio and you’re a fan of Quail Hollow State Park, please read on.
A ramble
Posted: October 17, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, Autumn, beginnings, Digital Art, Earth, fall, Fire, goals, home, Meditation, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, travel, Walking, water, weather | Tags: autumn, cycling, Digital Art, fall foliage, Goldie Hawn, Hermann Hesse, Hiking, MaidinSun Photography, meditation, nature, Oil Creek & Titusville Railroad, Oil Creek State Park, Outdoors, Pennsylvania, Photography, pond, quotes, reflections, travel, Tree, trees, water 36 Comments
Crates and barrels. (Petroleum Centre train depot. Oil Creek State Park, Pennsylvania.)
This is one of those posts where I have images, but no words of my own to go with them. Sometimes they turn out to be pretty decent posts. Other times, not so much. We’ll just have to wait and see where it goes.
An Everlasting Meal
Posted: October 1, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, beginnings, books, Earth, Fire, food, friends, Gratitude, home, Meditation, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Walking, water, weather | Tags: autumn, books, cooking, fall foliage, food, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, reflections, Tamar Adler, trees, water 20 Comments
Nature isn’t persistently bright; it wears and ages.
~ Tamar Adler, An Everlasting Meal
A few months ago, a friend sent me the book An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace
Life in the Bogs 