Some flowers on a hot day
Posted: July 3, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Digital Art, Earth, Fire, garden, home, Local Tourists, nature, Photography, Spirit, Spring, travel, Walking, water, weather | Tags: Cleveland, Cleveland Botanical Garden, flowers, garden, nature, New Jersey, Orchid Mania, orchids, Photography, spring 11 Comments
Today seems like a good day to take a short walk back through time and to the Cleveland Botanical Garden. I still have quite a few orchid photos left from Orchid Mania that I need to sort through, and I started to do just that prior to going off on our Canadian adventures. I found this post tucked away, waiting for me to do something with it.
The kindness of flowers
Posted: March 29, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in art, Adventures in Life, Air, Earth, garden, home, life, Local Tourists, nature, Photography, Quotes, Spirit, Spring, Walking, weather | Tags: Cleveland, Cleveland Botanical Garden, flowers, garden, George Washington Carver, Kindness, Lake View Cemetery, Mother Teresa, nature, Orchid Mania, orchids, Outdoors, Photography, spring 30 Comments
The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in kind that kindness will flow, for kindness grows in this way.
~ Robert Alan
Current events
Posted: March 26, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in Life, Air, Earth, Fire, home, life, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Spring, Walking, water | Tags: Cleveland, Cleveland Botanical Garden, clouds, flowers, garden, nature, orchids, Outdoors, Photography, pond, signs of spring, spring, water 31 Comments
Sunshine takes over after the morning clouds move out
I know some of my visitors like to see what’s currently going on around the pond so before we go back to Cleveland, let’s see what’s happening outdoors and close to home. Spring here in the Bogs is slightly behind spring up in Cleveland. And today doesn’t feel like spring at all. It’s chilly (33 degrees when I went out for my walk this morning) and very breezy. There is a Freeze Warning in effect for tonight, with a low of 26 expected.
Ten thousand flowers
Posted: March 20, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in Life, Art, Digital Art, Earth, Fire, goals, health, home, Local Tourists, nature, Photography, Quotes, Spirit, Spring, wandering | Tags: Cleveland Botanical Garden, Digital Art, flowers, garden, Henry David Thoreau, nature, Orchid Mania, orchids, Photography, quotations, spring 26 Comments
Ten thousand flowers in the spring, the moon
in autumn,
A cool breeze in summer, snow in winter —
If your mind is not clouded by unnecessary
things,
this is the best season of your life.~ Chinese poem
Sunday in the garden
Posted: March 18, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in Life, Bicycle Adventures, Earth, exercise, Fire, garden, health, home, Local Tourists, nature, Photographers and Other Photography-related People & Websites, Spirit, Walking, winter | Tags: Bicycle, Cleveland Botanical Garden, cycling, flowers, garden, nature, Orchid Mania, orchids, Outdoors, Photography, Picnik, Rail trail, winter 21 Comments
In the Costa Rica greenhouse garden. Cleveland Botanical Garden.
I have gone back to the Cleveland Botanical Garden, sorting through some more of the photos I took over a week ago during my last visit. It’s another beautiful day here in the Bogs and I could bring you photos from today, but I wanted to finish going through the Orchid Mania images before starting on something new.
Scattered thunderstorms
Posted: March 15, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in art, Adventures in Life, Earth, Fire, garden, home, Local Tourists, nature, Photography, Spirit, Walking, water, weather | Tags: Cleveland, Cleveland Botanical Garden, flowers, nature, orchids, Photography, quotes, rain, water, winter 32 Comments
Summer is paying an early visit to the Bogs. The heat has been building along with the clouds. I expect those clouds to burst any moment, the way they did in the early morning hours, waking us with thunder, lightning, and surges of heavy rain hitting the house. Between the heat and the humidity, it does not feel spring-like at all.
Open up the windows
Posted: March 13, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in Life, Air, Art, Digital Art, Earth, garden, home, Local Tourists, nature, Photography, Quotes, Spirit, Walking, winter | Tags: Adobe Photoshop, Cleveland Botanical Garden, Digital Art, flowers, nature, Orchid Mania, orchids, Photography, Picnik, winter 39 Comments
What an incredibly beautiful day we are having here in the Bogs! Warm, sunny, simply gorgeous. It’s the kind of day that makes you throw open all of the windows to let the stale air of winter out, and the invigorating air of spring in.
Life in the Bogs 