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
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.
Life in the Bogs 