Portrait of a maple
Posted: December 20, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in art, Air, Autumn, Daily Walk, Digital Art, Earth, health, home, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Walking, wandering, water, weather | Tags: autumn, Daniel Butler, MaidinSun Photography, Maple, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, Ted Andrews, trees, water, weather, woods 20 Comments
High-rise
Maples produce seeds or “keys,” designed to spin like helicopter blades. Strong winds carry them great distances. Foresters class the family as invasive “pioneers,” being among the first to colonize cleared ground.
~ Daniel Butler, How to Plant a Tree
Woodland workout
Posted: February 18, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Earth, exercise, Fire, goals, health, home, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Walking, water, weather, winter, work | Tags: Maple, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, Tree, water, winter, woods 32 Comments
Another blue-sky day.
Need a good calorie-burning, heart-rate-raising, muscle building and strengthening workout? Come with me to the woods where all those things and more will be provided, free of charge.
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
301: Communing with summer
Posted: July 21, 2011 Filed under: 365 Life in the Bogs Challenge, Adventures in Life, Critters, Earth, Fire, goals, home, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Summer, Walking, water, weather | Tags: animals, birds, Maple, moon, Photography, postaday2011, red fox, shade, sunlight, trees 54 Comments
Today is by far the hottest day we have had this summer. Even early this morning it was hot and steamy, the air thick with summer. Instead of taking my usual walk I decided today’s outdoor time would consist of finding a comfortable shady spot and learning about summer through stillness.
273: Thoughts on summer
Posted: June 23, 2011 Filed under: 365 Life in the Bogs Challenge, Adventures in Life, Domesticity, Earth, garden, gardening, goals, home, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Summer, Walking, water, weather | Tags: Blossom, Cleveland Orchestra, garden, Maple, Mother Nature, postaday2011, sunset, vegetables 25 Comments
Freshly mowed
Some of the comments on my Summer Solstice post (271: Learning to love summer) on Tuesday were mixed and thought-provoking. I didn’t do a count to verify it but it looks like there is a pretty even split between those who love summer and those who don’t. Those who love summer gave some great reasons for doing so. Some of those reasons include:
- Better weather
- Longer days (more sunlight after the long, cold, dark days of winter)
- Flowers in bloom
- Sunrises and sunsets
- Vacation
Some of the descriptions from those who love it include:
- Carefree
- Fun
- Relaxed
- Lazy days
210: Sun worship
Posted: April 21, 2011 Filed under: 365 Life in the Bogs Challenge, Adventures in Life, Air, beginnings, Critters, Earth, Fire, home, life, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Spring, Walking, water, weather | Tags: Anais Nin, birds, buds, flowers, Hunkesni, John Lennon, Maple, postaday2011, quotes, Robin, signs of spring, Sitting Bull, trees 39 Comments
(A robin soaking up the sun.)
I can understand it. Sun worship, that is. There has been some form of it throughout various cultures, throughout recorded history. After a long, cold, mostly cloudy winter, and a spring that has brought snow, rain, and mostly cloudy days, nothing perks things up like a day of sunshine.
204: Running out of words
Posted: April 15, 2011 Filed under: 365 Life in the Bogs Challenge, Adventures in Life, beginnings, Earth, garden, gardening, goals, home, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Spring, Walking, water, weather | Tags: asparagus, buds, daffodils, flowers, garden, gardening, Maple, postaday2011, signs of spring, spring, Tree, turtles 20 Comments
It’s pretty amazing how quickly and efficiently life reasserts itself when it’s time for it to do so in the spring. Plants and trees that barely had buds on them yesterday have leaves and in some cases, flowers today.
Life in the Bogs 