A whirlwind weekend
Posted: November 26, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in Life, Autumn, Digital Art, Earth, fall, family, Fire, food, holidays, home, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, travel, Walking, water, weather | Tags: autumn, fall foliage, food, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Turnpike, Photography, pond, reflections, Thanksgiving, travel, trees, water, weather 25 Comments
Walking the dog
So. How was your weekend? Mine went by so quickly that I’m still trying to catch my breath.
All that glitters
Posted: November 19, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Autumn, Daily Walk, Earth, Fire, goals, home, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Today's Joys, Walking, wandering, water, weather | Tags: autumn, fall foliage, frost, Jack Kerouac, Jack Kornfield, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, water, weather, William Shakespeare 18 Comments
All that glitters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told…~ William Shakespeare
Over the top
Posted: November 14, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Autumn, Earth, fall, Fire, goals, health, home, Letting Go, Metta/Lovingkindness, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, rants, Spirit, Walking, wandering, water, weather | Tags: autumn, Dali Lama, fall foliage, Health, Health insurance, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, reflections, trees, water, weather, woods 26 Comments
Breakneck Creek in October
As I sat down to write up my post today, I discovered a draft of a post called “Notes from the woods.” There were no words. Just images. The photos were taken back in October when there was still quite a bit of color in the woods. I thought about trashing the post, but the photos insisted on having their day, and the woods were just too pretty to say no to them.
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).
After Sandy
Posted: October 30, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in Life, Air, Autumn, Daily Walk, Earth, fall, family, Fears, Gratitude, home, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Walking, water, weather | Tags: autumn, clouds, fall foliage, Hurricane Sandy, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, rain, trees, water, weather, woods 33 Comments
Part of the storm preparations. (The disco tub half full with water we might have needed if the power had gone out.)
Sandy didn’t quite live up to her hype here in the Bogs. I am grateful for that. I know she was much, much rougher on those closer to where she came to shore. Family and friends back east are without power, but everybody is okay. I am most especially grateful for that.
Monday meditation
Posted: October 29, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, Critters, Daily Walk, Digital Art, Earth, fall, home, Meditation, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Walking, wandering, water, weather | Tags: autumn, birds, clouds, fall foliage, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, rain, trees, water, weather 30 Comments
If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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.
Life in the Bogs 