How’s it going?
Posted: January 9, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, beginnings, Daily Walk, Earth, Fire, goals, health, home, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, snow, Spirit, Walking, water, weather, winter, yoga | Tags: Aristotle, January, MaidinSun Photography, Mark Twain, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, Shakti Gawain, snow, sunrise, sunset, trees, Waking up early, water, weather, winter 47 Comments
Sunrise network
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
~ Aristotle
I lied (and goose tales)
Posted: October 23, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in Life, Air, Autumn, Critters, Earth, fall, Fire, goals, health, home, Letting Go, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Walking, water, weather, yoga | Tags: autumn, birds, garden, Holden Arboretum, Honesty, Katherine Mansfield, MaidinSun Photography, Mother Teresa, nature, O. Henry, Ohio, Outdoors, Photography, pond, reflections, trees, water, weather 28 Comments
Unwelcome visitors. Except, sometimes I enjoy it when they visit. Then I remember that too many geese spoil the pond.
Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.
~ Mother Teresa
Note: There is a story within a story here. It might be less confusing to follow one or the other. The images and captions or the text outside of the images. Then go back and pick up the rest. Or not. Maybe it’s just confusing to me.
I am here to ‘fess up. Yesterday evening, I lied. I didn’t say anything that was an untruth. My prevarication wasn’t done in writing. I lied by intentionally pressing the wrong button.
On this first day of Autumn
Posted: September 22, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in Life, Autumn, beginnings, Critters, Earth, fall, Fire, friends, goals, home, Local Tourists, Meditation, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Walking, water, weather, yoga | Tags: birds, Cleveland, clouds, fall foliage, flowers, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, rain, reflections, sunset, trees, water, weather, wildflowers 33 Comments
Looking out over the meadows on the first day of Autumn
Rains came overnight, but this morning the clouds parted and the sun came out in time to welcome the Spirit of Autumn to the realm of Breezy Acres. Yellows are rolling across the meadows and reds are starting to color the tips of the maple leaves. The crows continue to meet in the woods for their Caw Conference, the Blue Jays trying to imitate them. Late in the day, storm clouds and rain returned, but just before the rain fell, the colors around the pond swelled and popped, and a painting of Autumn spread out across the land.
A monarch in the meadow
Posted: September 14, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in Life, Air, Critters, Earth, endings, Fire, goals, health, home, Letting Go, Meditation, Metta/Lovingkindness, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, Spirit, Summer, Walking, wandering, weather, yoga | Tags: butterfly, clouds, flowers, Health, Lovingkindness Meditation, Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness, MaidinSun Photography, Meadow, meditation, Mettā, Monarch (butterfly), nature, Outdoors, Photography, Sharon Salzberg, Summer, weather, wildflowers 29 Comments
Landing
The bud
stands for all things
even for those things that don’t flower,
for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing;
though sometimes it is necessary
to reteach a thing its loveliness,
to put a hand on the brow
of the flower,
and retell it in words and in touch,
it is lovely
until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing.~ Galway Kinnell
I’ve posted this poem sometime in the past (it seems like long ago), and it came to mind this morning as I was pondering “what next?”
Spots of time
Posted: August 8, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in Life, Critters, Earth, Fire, goals, health, home, life, nature, Photography, Quotes, Spirit, Summer, Walking, water, weather, yoga | Tags: birds, clouds, dog, flowers, goldenrod, Joe Pye Weed, meditation, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, rain, reflections, Summer, sunrise, sunset, trees, water, weather, wildflowers, William Wordsworth 46 Comments
Rainy day
There are in our existence spots of time,
That with distinct pre-eminence retain
A renovating virtue…
That penetrates, enables us to mount,
When high more high, and lifts us up when fallen.~ William Wordsworth
Let’s walk
Posted: July 20, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in Life, Earth, goals, health, home, nature, Photography, Spirit, Summer, Walking, water, weather, yoga | Tags: Columbus, Hiking, nature, Outdoors, Photography, Quail Hollow State Park, Summer, The Color Run, trees, walking, water, weather, woods 44 Comments
Through the archway
Yesterday, in the morning before the rains came, I went for a hike at Quail Hollow State Park. Photos for today’s post are from that hike. I hiked 5k, a practice run for tomorrow’s Color Run (which I’ll be walking, as I expect quite a few folks will be doing since it’s not a race but something done for fun).
Thursday Travels: Let’s go to the beach
Posted: July 19, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in Life, Earth, hiking, home, nature, Photography, Spirit, Spring, Summer, Thursday Travels, travel, Vacation, Walking, water, weather, yoga | Tags: beach, Canada, Fundy National Park, Hiking, Maritimes, nature, New Brunswick, Outdoors, Photography, Point Wolfe, rain, spring, travel, trees, water 31 Comments
Point Wolfe. Fundy National Park, New Brunswick, Canada.
If you were here last week, you may recall that I took you as far as the bottom of the stairs on the hike M and I took to Point Wolfe in Fundy National Park. (If you don’t recall it, or you missed it, you’ll find the link at the bottom of this post). This is the beach at the Point Wolfe River Estuary.
Life in the Bogs 