Closer to home
Posted: October 24, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in Life, Air, Autumn, Daily Walk, Digital Art, Earth, fall, Fire, Fracking, health, home, Letting Go, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Walking, wandering, water, weather | Tags: autumn, fall foliage, Fracking, Habitat, Hydraulic fracturing, Jiddu Krishnamurti, MaidinSun Photography, Nathaniel Hawthorne, National Wildlife Federation, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, rain, reflections, Sandra Postel, trees, water, weather, woods 27 Comments
Impressionism on the pond: Reflections from the woods.
As each experience arises, live it out as fully and deeply as possible; think it out, feel it out extensively and profoundly; be aware of its pain and pleasure, of your judgments and identifications. Only when experience is completed is there a renewal. We must be capable of living the four seasons in a day; to be keenly aware, to experience, to understand and be free of the gatherings of each day.
~ J. Krishnamurti
Quail Hollow
Posted: October 21, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, Autumn, Daily Walk, Earth, fall, Fire, hiking, home, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Sunday signage, Walking, water, weather | Tags: autumn, fall foliage, Fracking, Hiking, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, Quail Hollow State Park, trees, water, weather, woods 37 Comments
In yesterday’s post (Earth’s eye), I mentioned that a nearby state park, Quail Hollow, is scheduled to be the first state park in Ohio where fracking is allowed to take place. Today the Coalition to Protect Ohio’s Parks with hikers from the Sierra Club, the Ohio Environmental Council, the Mohican Advocates, the Buckeye Forest Council, and some local people joined together for a hike to protest the fracking. It was an interesting and educational hike, with a naturalist, to show why it is important to preserve the park (and others like it).
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 