Anahata
Posted: March 12, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, beginnings, Daily Walk, Digital Art, Earth, hiking, home, Mindfulness, music, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Today's Joys, Walking, wandering, water, winter | Tags: Anahata, Capture Your 365, Clover, daffodils, flowers, Green, Heart Chakra, Hiking, MaidinSun Photography, music, nature, Oscar Wilde, Outdoors, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Photography, pond, quotes, rain, Sanskrit, snow, Tom Waits, water, weather, winter, woods 8 Comments
The elusive clover
Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Spanish Poet and Playright, 1600-1681
Shamrock (or Clover) is the Capture Your 365 prompt for today, but we were also given a little wiggle room with a second choice of Green. I almost had to take it because finding a clover, any clover, was not easy. This one was sticking its little head out of the water at the edge of the pond. We had a lot of rain overnight and the pond level is above where it should be, the water spreading out on the lawn. Not that it matters. It’s all one big puddle out there today.
Thursday Travels: Leaving the Glasgow Lakes Look-Off Trail
Posted: March 7, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in Life, Earth, hiking, home, music, nature, Photography, Quotes, Spirit, Spring, Thursday Travels, travel, Vacation, videos, water, weather, winter | Tags: Canada, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Henry Miller, Hiking, Macy Gray, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Paquette Lake, Photography, quotes, spring, Thursday Travels, Trail, travel, water, weather, wildflowers, winter 14 Comments
(8 June 2012. Glasgow Lakes Look-Off Trail. Cape Breton Highlands National Park. Nova Scotia.)
Now that we’ve had a little rest on that rock just to the right, it’s time to make our way back. We have other trails to hike since this one turned out to be under water.
Spring cleaning
Posted: February 26, 2013 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.
Blue spirits
Posted: December 9, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Abstracts, Adventures in art, Air, Autumn, Daily Walk, Digital Art, Earth, home, life, Mindfulness, music, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Today's Joys, Walking, wandering, water, weather | Tags: autumn, Béla Fleck, Cleveland Orchestra, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Osip Mandelstam, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, reflections, trees, water, weather 22 Comments
Contemplation in blue
Perhaps the whisper was born before lips,
And the leaves in treelessness circled and flew,
And those, to whom we impart our experience as bliss,
Acquire their forms before we do.~ Osip Mandelstam
Thursday Travels: Ferries and boats and lighthouses, oh my
Posted: December 6, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in Life, Autumn, Earth, fall, home, music, nature, Photography, Spirit, Spring, Thursday Travels, travel, Vacation, water, weather | Tags: autumn, bowling, Canada, clouds, Ferry, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Nova Scotia, Outdoors, Photography, Prince Edward Island, spring, travel, Voodoo Loons, water, weather, Wood Islands Prince Edward Island 26 Comments
Wood Islands, Prince Edward Island
Last week when we left off, M and I were getting ready to leave Prince Edward Island. After a quick visit to say goodbye to the beach, we made our way to Wood Islands, PEI to take the ferry to Caribou, Nova Scotia. (Side note: This must seem like it was the longest trip in the world, especially when you consider that this is only the half way point. We really did pack in a lot of activities each day.)
Musings
Posted: December 5, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Autumn, Daily Walk, Earth, fall, Fears, Fire, goals, home, Letting Go, Love, Mindfulness, music, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Today's Joys, Walking, wandering, water, weather | Tags: autumn, clouds, Douglas Adam, Life the Universe and Everything, MaidinSun Photography, Marianne Williamson, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, Steve Jobs, sunrise, trees, water, weather 28 Comments
Early this morning
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
~ Steve Jobs
The lights
Posted: November 15, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Autumn, Daily Walk, Earth, Fire, home, Mindfulness, music, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Today's Joys, Walking, wandering, water, weather | Tags: autumn, Barry Lopez, frost, Grasscut, Henry David Thoreau, Julia Cameron, MaidinSun Photography, Mother Nature, music, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, Spirit, water, weather, wildflowers 38 Comments
Frosty holly
I’m going to skip Thursday’s Travels today because Mother Nature decided to decorate the meadows. The morning was steeped in the awesomeness of frost and sunlight.
Life in the Bogs 