The element of surprise
Posted: November 2, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in Life, Air, Autumn, Bicycle Adventures, Blog Business, Earth, fall, Fire, home, Letting Go, Mindfulness, NaBloPoMo, nature, Photography, Spirit, travel, wandering, water, weather | Tags: autumn, cycling, fall foliage, MaidinSun Photography, NaBloPoMo, nature, Outdoors, Pennsylvania, Photography, quotes, travel, trees, water, weather, woods 54 Comments
Oil Creek State Park, Pennsylvania.
As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens.~ Stephen Graham, The Gentle Art of Tramping, 1926
I have participated in the original, official NaBloPoMo since November of 2006. It was, in a way, a lifeline for me. It was through that first NaBloPoMo that I began to experience a sense of community in what I think of as the outer blogosphere. (I had previously been blogging for years under a pseudonym in a more closed space with a smaller community.) I was going to need my new blogmates and this sense of being in touch with the outer world beginning the following month when M and I made a temporary move to West Chester, Pennsylvania (a town I referred to as Sabbaticalville while we were living there).
The storm approaches
Posted: October 28, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, Bicycle Adventures, Digital Art, Earth, home, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, water, weather | Tags: Akron, autumn, clouds, cycling, fall foliage, Frankenstorm, Hurricane Sandy, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, pond, quotes, rain, Susan Ertz, trees, water, weather 20 Comments
(Pumpkin decorations added in Picmonkey.)
The so-called Frankenstorm, Hurricane Sandy, is on its way. We’ve already had quite a bit of rain from the cold front moving through, although it’s hard to tell now where the rain is originating. It’s currently moving north and west (or coming from the south and east), along with occasional gusty winds. Perhaps some of Sandy’s outer bands are already here.
On the Towpath Trail
Posted: October 27, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in art, Adventures in Life, Air, Autumn, Bicycle Adventures, Digital Art, Earth, exercise, internet, Local Tourists, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, water, weather | Tags: Akron, autumn, cycling, Emily Dickinson, Halloween, Humbert Wolfe, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, reflections, Towpath Trail, trees, water, weather, William Motherwell 37 Comments
In the spirit of Halloween, I thought I’d have a little fun with the photos I took on yesterday’s bike ride. I started my ride in Akron and ended in Peninsula where I caught the train back to Akron. It was a good ride. Almost 14 miles when all was said and done. I did get a bit chilled out there. The temperature, close to 70 when I started, dropped about 15 degrees while I was riding. My fingers and toes were numb when I finished. It felt good to sit by the heater on the train and thaw out.
Turning point
Posted: October 26, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, Autumn, Bicycle Adventures, Daily Walk, Earth, Fire, home, Local Tourists, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Walking, water, weather | Tags: autumn, cycling, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, trees, water, weather, woods 32 Comments
Change is on the horizon
Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.
~ Agnes Repplier
A ramble
Posted: October 17, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, Autumn, beginnings, Digital Art, Earth, fall, Fire, goals, home, Meditation, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, travel, Walking, water, weather | Tags: autumn, cycling, Digital Art, fall foliage, Goldie Hawn, Hermann Hesse, Hiking, MaidinSun Photography, meditation, nature, Oil Creek & Titusville Railroad, Oil Creek State Park, Outdoors, Pennsylvania, Photography, pond, quotes, reflections, travel, Tree, trees, water 36 Comments
Crates and barrels. (Petroleum Centre train depot. Oil Creek State Park, Pennsylvania.)
This is one of those posts where I have images, but no words of my own to go with them. Sometimes they turn out to be pretty decent posts. Other times, not so much. We’ll just have to wait and see where it goes.
A walk along the Allegheny River
Posted: October 15, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in Life, Air, Autumn, Bicycle Adventures, Daily Walk, Earth, exercise, fall, Fire, goals, health, hiking, home, Local Tourists, nature, Photography, Spirit, travel, Walking, water, weather | Tags: Allegheny River, Allegheny River Trail, autumn, cycling, fall foliage, Hiking, Indian God Rock, MaidinSun Photography, Mother Nature, nature, Oil Creek State Park, Outdoors, Pennsylvania, travel, trees, water, weather, woods 36 Comments
Start
Thank you to everyone who joined in the group walk. I haven’t had a chance to join you all on your walks yet, having just arrived home a little while ago. I think everyone who needed a little extra time has managed to get their walks in so it probably won’t be necessary to extend the deadline. However, if you want to join in and haven’t had a chance to walk or do your blog post about it yet, let me know. I plan to do the wrap-up either tomorrow or Wednesday and will wait a bit if you need extra time.
Sunday signage
Posted: October 14, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in Life, Autumn, Bicycle Adventures, Earth, exercise, Fire, hiking, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, Spirit, travel, Walking, wandering, water, weather | Tags: Allegheny River, autumn, cycling, fall foliage, Hiking, Leaf peeping, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Pennsylvania, Photography, travel, trees, water, weather, woods 18 Comments
On the Sandy Creek Trail. Near Franklin, Pennsylvania.
What an unexpectedly beautiful weekend it has been! Unexpected because the weather prognosticators had been carrying on about rain and wind for about a week before I set out for Pennsylvania to do some hiking, biking, and leaf peeping.
Life in the Bogs 