Sunday in the garden
Posted: March 18, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in Life, Bicycle Adventures, Earth, exercise, Fire, garden, health, home, Local Tourists, nature, Photographers and Other Photography-related People & Websites, Spirit, Walking, winter | Tags: Bicycle, Cleveland Botanical Garden, cycling, flowers, garden, nature, Orchid Mania, orchids, Outdoors, Photography, Picnik, Rail trail, winter 21 Comments
In the Costa Rica greenhouse garden. Cleveland Botanical Garden.
I have gone back to the Cleveland Botanical Garden, sorting through some more of the photos I took over a week ago during my last visit. It’s another beautiful day here in the Bogs and I could bring you photos from today, but I wanted to finish going through the Orchid Mania images before starting on something new.
Scattered thunderstorms
Posted: March 15, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in art, Adventures in Life, Earth, Fire, garden, home, Local Tourists, nature, Photography, Spirit, Walking, water, weather | Tags: Cleveland, Cleveland Botanical Garden, flowers, nature, orchids, Photography, quotes, rain, water, winter 32 Comments
Summer is paying an early visit to the Bogs. The heat has been building along with the clouds. I expect those clouds to burst any moment, the way they did in the early morning hours, waking us with thunder, lightning, and surges of heavy rain hitting the house. Between the heat and the humidity, it does not feel spring-like at all.
Of butterflies and snakes
Posted: March 14, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in art, Adventures in Life, Air, Critters, Digital Art, Earth, garden, home, Local Tourists, nature, Photography, Spirit, Walking, winter | Tags: butterfly, Cleveland Botanical Garden, Digital Art, nature, Orchid Mania, Photography, winter 37 Comments
We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
~ Carl Sagan
Open up the windows
Posted: March 13, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in Life, Air, Art, Digital Art, Earth, garden, home, Local Tourists, nature, Photography, Quotes, Spirit, Walking, winter | Tags: Adobe Photoshop, Cleveland Botanical Garden, Digital Art, flowers, nature, Orchid Mania, orchids, Photography, Picnik, winter 39 Comments
What an incredibly beautiful day we are having here in the Bogs! Warm, sunny, simply gorgeous. It’s the kind of day that makes you throw open all of the windows to let the stale air of winter out, and the invigorating air of spring in.
How sweet it is
Posted: March 12, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in art, Adventures in Life, Air, Critters, Earth, Fire, garden, home, Local Tourists, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Walking, water, weather, winter | Tags: birds, Cleveland Botanical Garden, flowers, Garter Snake, Muskrat, nature, Orchid, Orchid Mania, Outdoors, Photography, rain, water, winter 57 Comments
Attending the Orchid Mania exhibit at the Cleveland Botanical Garden usually means leaving the cold, snowy, black and white world of winter and stepping into the colorful, warm and humid tropical world of orchids. The colors and scents are a feast for the eyes and the soul after the stark, almost colorless, almost scentless days of January and February. This year there was less of a contrast between the sunny, bright outdoors, and the vibrant, showy orchid exhibit. I’m not sure why I felt that way. I know I’m not the only one who did and/or commented on it. Perhaps because winter has been so mild.
Abstracts in the Garden
Posted: March 10, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in art, Adventures in Life, Earth, garden, home, Local Tourists, nature, Photography, Spirit, Walking, water, weather, winter | Tags: Cleveland Botanical Garden, flowers, nature, Orchid Mania, orchids, Outdoors, Photography, water, winter 68 Comments
Yesterday afternoon I joined some friends in Cleveland where we attended the Orchid Mania exhibit at the Cleveland Botanical Garden. While there, I kept in mind Scott’s Assignment 18: Abstract Photography. If you’d like to participate, click on the link I just provided for the rundown on what, how, and when. The deadline to submit your photo (or photos) is on or before midnight (your time zone), March 21, 2012. Have fun!
198: An assemblage of orchids
Posted: April 9, 2011 Filed under: 365 Life in the Bogs Challenge, Adventures in art, Adventures in Life, beginnings, Earth, garden, gardening, goals, home, Local Tourists, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Spring, Walking, water, weather | Tags: Cleveland Botanical Garden, flowers, garden, Orchid, postaday2011, spring 28 Comments
Color is making its way back into the Bogs, slowly but surely. However, it still isn’t nearly as colorful as the orchids were at the Cleveland Botanical Garden Orchid Mania exhibit. As I slowly, but surely, make my way through the photos I took, I’ll keep sharing them from time to time. It helps fill in the gaps on those days when I struggle with coming up with a post.
Life in the Bogs 