Balance
Posted: March 13, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, beginnings, Daily Walk, Digital Art, Earth, Fire, home, Letting Go, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, Quotes, snow, Spirit, Spring, Today's Joys, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: balance, Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert, flowers, Health, Hiking, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, quotes, Rumi, snow, spring, Sufi poetry, trees, water, weather, winter 19 Comments
Balanced between winter and spring. Frosty oak leaves.
Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds’ wings.
~ Rumi, Essential Rumi
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.
Liquid
Posted: March 11, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Abstracts, Adventures in art, Air, Daily Walk, Digital Art, Earth, hiking, home, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Today's Joys, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: Capture Your 365, clouds, Cyril Connolly, Fred Rogers, Hiking, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, rain, reflections, trees, water, weather, winter 26 Comments
Liquid reflections
It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
~ Erica Jong
Today’s Capture Your 365 prompt is Liquid. You can find plenty of liquid here in the Bogs, especially since it’s been raining for a good part of the day.
Herald of spring
Posted: March 10, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in art, Air, beginnings, Critters, Daily Walk, Digital Art, Earth, Fire, hiking, home, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Spring, Today's Joys, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: Aldo Leopold, birds, Charlotte Brontë, flowers, garden, Hiking, John Muir, MaidinSun Photography, Maya Angelou, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, Red-winged Blackbird, reflections, spring, trees, water, weather, winter 28 Comments
Electric crocuses
Spring drew on… and a greenness grew over those brown [garden] beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that Hope traversed them at night, and left each morning brighter traces of her steps.
~ Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
The frost fairies were here this morning
Posted: March 9, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Daily Walk, Earth, Fire, home, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, Spirit, Today's Joys, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: bokeh, flowers, frost, George Eliot, Hiking, Jack Kornfield, MaidinSun Photography, Mary Rose O'Reilley, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, Thich Nhat Hanh, water, weather, wildflowers, winter 25 Comments
Sap-cicles at sunrise
Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulations of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.
~ George Eliot
Charmed
Posted: March 8, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in art, Daily Walk, Digital Art, Earth, Fire, home, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Today's Joys, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: clouds, flowers, gratitude, Hiking, Katrina Kenison, MaidinSun Photography, Meditations from the Mat, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rasheed Ogunlaru, Rolf Gates, trees, water, weather, wildflowers, winter, woods 30 Comments
The neighbor’s tree
In life one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day — or to celebrate each special day.
~ Rasheed Ogunlaru
At the water’s edge
Posted: March 6, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, beginnings, Critters, Daily Walk, Digital Art, Earth, Fire, hiking, home, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, snow, Spirit, Today's Joys, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: birds, clouds, feathers, grasses, Hermann Hesse, Hiking, MaidinSun Photography, Margaret Atwood, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, reflections, snow, sunlight, trees, water, weather, winter 23 Comments
On the edge of the pond
Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.
~ Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
Life in the Bogs 