This is not the post I planned for today
Posted: February 25, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, beginnings, Daily Walk, Digital Art, Earth, Fire, home, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Today's Joys, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: birds, clouds, flowers, Hafiz, Henry Beston, MaidinSun Photography, Nathaniel Hawthorne, nature, Nora Roberts, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, trees, water, weather, winter, woods 38 CommentsDo you see that out there? The strange, unfamiliar light? It’s called the sun. Let’s go get us a little.
~ Nora Roberts, The Hollow
The sun came to visit today, and turned the sky the most amazing shades of blue. Although I had plenty of work to do indoors, I couldn’t resist the call to go out and play.
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 CommentsAs 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
WPC: Sunset
Posted: October 6, 2011 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Autumn, Earth, fall, Fire, home, nature, Photography, Spirit, Walking, water, weather, yoga | Tags: autumn, autumn leaves, fall foliage, forest, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Photography, postaday2011, sunset, Theodore Roethke, woods, WP Weekly Photo Challenge 21 CommentsI hadn’t planned to participate in this week’s Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge. Mother Nature made it impossible to say no by providing some gorgeous colors at sunset yesterday evening. I can’t resist shiny objects and pretty colors.
Bubbly
Posted: September 25, 2011 Filed under: 365 Life in the Bogs Challenge, Adventures in Life, Air, Autumn, beginnings, Bicycle Adventures, Critters, Earth, fall, friends, goals, home, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Walking, water, weather | Tags: bubbles, butterflies, butterfly, Flora and Fauna, Monarch, Nathaniel Hawthorne, nature, Photography, postaday2011, pumpkin, quotations, R. H. Heinlein, Rabindranath Tagore 46 CommentsThe party went well. I am fairly certain a good time was had by all. Everyone looked happy. That’s usually a good sign.