Laundry musings
Posted: November 17, 2011 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in Life, Air, Autumn, Bicycle Adventures, Critters, Domesticity, Earth, fall, goals, home, NaBloPoMo, Photography, Spirit, travel, water, weather, yoga | Tags: Amish, Amish laundry, ironing, Lancaster County, Lancaster County Pennsylvania, laundry, NaBloPoMo, Pennsylvania, postaday2011 49 Comments
Not the neighbor's laundry. (Photo taken in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, on October 22, 2011.)
Recently the neighbor’s laundry has caught my eye. Not in a “I want to photograph it” way. But in other ways. Responsible ways. Mundane, domestic ways.
End of season
Posted: October 21, 2011 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in art, Adventures in Life, Air, Autumn, Critters, Earth, fall, goals, home, nature, Photography, Spirit, travel, Walking, water, weather, yoga | Tags: Amish, autumn, autumn leaves, butterfly, fall, fall foliage, flowers, Lancaster County Pennsylvania, meadows, nature, Pennsylvania, Photography, postaday2011, Queen Anne's Lace, seasons, wildflowers 37 Comments
Summer officially ended some weeks ago, but there are aspects of summer that are just now beginning to fade. I think we might still have a few more warm days in store. Even so, we’re entering a whole new phase of autumn.
Internet free zone
Posted: October 19, 2011 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in Life, Autumn, Earth, family, goals, nature, Photography, Spirit, travel, yoga | Tags: Elaine St. James, fungi, Lancaster County, Lancaster County Pennsylvania, Leisure, Maple, mushrooms, nature, Pennsylvania, Photography, postaday2011, unplugged 15 Comments
Mushrooms under the purple maple tree.
The need to make wise choices encompasses every area of our lives. Since we have time for only a limited amount of stuff, we need to choose wisely what stuff we’re going to allow to take up that time. Since we have only a limited amount of time to spend with friends or to engage in leisure activities, we need to choose our friends and our activities wisely.
~Elaine St. James
304: Sunday signage
Posted: July 24, 2011 Filed under: 365 Life in the Bogs Challenge, Adventures in Life, Critters, Earth, Fire, home, nature, Photography, Summer, travel, weather | Tags: Amish, flowers, Horse and buggy, Lancaster County Pennsylvania, Lincoln Highway, Photography, postaday2011 31 Comments
Ain't that the truth?
This week’s sign was seen on a store in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The store is called The Outhouse. They sell a lot of joke items as well as knickknacks and an assortment of other things you probably don’t need.
288: Shenk’s Ferry Wildflower Preserve
Posted: July 8, 2011 Filed under: 365 Life in the Bogs Challenge, Adventures in Life, Critters, Earth, family, Flashbacks, hiking, nature, Photography, Spring, travel, Walking | Tags: birds, Hiking, Lancaster County Pennsylvania, National Aviary, Pennsylvania, Photography, Pittsburgh, postaday2011, Shenk's Ferry Wildflower Preserve, wildflowers 28 Comments
Way back in the beginning of May, M and I took a trip out to New Jersey and Pennsylvania. While we were in Pennsylvania, we spent a morning hiking in Lancaster County. One of the areas where we hiked was Shenk’s Ferry Wildflower Preserve. The main wildflower trail is approximately one mile long, and an easy hike. One could probably hike it fairly quickly if one didn’t want to stop, look at, and photograph all the flowers.
285: Summer seduction
Posted: July 5, 2011 Filed under: 365 Life in the Bogs Challenge, Adventures in Life, Air, Critters, Earth, Fire, garden, gardening, goals, home, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Summer, Walking, water, weather | Tags: Chard, damselfly, dragonfly, Lancaster County Pennsylvania, Photography, pond, postaday2011, Sarah Ban Breathnach, Ted Andrews 33 Comments
A hazy summer day, somewhere in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
Sultry, steaming, sweltering … Slow down. Or stop. It’s time to shed ambition and expectation, along with commutes, clothing, cellular phones, calendars. Now our wants seem to diminish. Is it because our needs are met? A shady nook, a cold drink, a cool breeze — whether indoors or out. A respite from the rigors of the day. Time off for good behavior. Summer is not so much a season as a melody, that tune of contentment we hum as the days begin to beautifully blur.
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
Life in the Bogs 