Flower dreams
Posted: March 15, 2013 Filed under: 365 Life in the Bogs Challenge, Adventures in art, Adventures in Life, Air, beginnings, Daily Walk, Digital Art, Earth, Fire, Flashbacks, hiking, home, nature, Photography, Quotes, Spirit, Spring, Walking, weather, winter | Tags: Dream, flowers, Hiking, Longwood Gardens, MaidinSun Photography, Marsha Norman, Milne, nature, Outdoors, Pennsylvania, Photography, Pooh, quotes, spring, sunset, trees, weather, winter 29 Comments
Blossoms on High Street in West Chester, Pennsylvania. (April 2007)
In my dreams, I never have an age.
~ Madeleine L’Engle
Last night (well, really it was early this morning) I had a dream that was filled with flowers. Someone was teaching me to identify wildflowers by their leaves, their blossoms, and their stems. Wouldn’t it be nice to learn through dreaming and wake up with a head full of knowledge you didn’t have when you went to sleep?
A whirlwind weekend
Posted: November 26, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in Life, Autumn, Digital Art, Earth, fall, family, Fire, food, holidays, home, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, travel, Walking, water, weather | Tags: autumn, fall foliage, food, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Turnpike, Photography, pond, reflections, Thanksgiving, travel, trees, water, weather 25 Comments
Walking the dog
So. How was your weekend? Mine went by so quickly that I’m still trying to catch my breath.
Wishing you…
Posted: November 21, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in Life, Autumn, celebrations, Earth, fall, family, Fire, Gratitude, holidays, home, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, travel, Walking, water | Tags: autumn, Holiday, MaidinSun Photography, nature, New Jersey, Outdoors, Pennsylvania, Photography, pond, reflections, sunrise, sunset, Thanksgiving, travel, trees, water 51 Comments
Somewhere in Pennsylvania. October 2012.
By the time this scheduled post goes out, I will be somewhere in Pennsylvania, heading east towards New Jersey to spend Thanksgiving Day with family. The house-sitter should be all settled in, ready to enjoy a few days by the pond and with the kitties. She’s going to have some nice weather. It should be nice back east too.
The element of surprise
Posted: November 2, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in Life, Air, Autumn, Bicycle Adventures, Blog Business, Earth, fall, Fire, home, Letting Go, Mindfulness, NaBloPoMo, nature, Photography, Spirit, travel, wandering, water, weather | Tags: autumn, cycling, fall foliage, MaidinSun Photography, NaBloPoMo, nature, Outdoors, Pennsylvania, Photography, quotes, travel, trees, water, weather, woods 54 Comments
Oil Creek State Park, Pennsylvania.
As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens.~ Stephen Graham, The Gentle Art of Tramping, 1926
I have participated in the original, official NaBloPoMo since November of 2006. It was, in a way, a lifeline for me. It was through that first NaBloPoMo that I began to experience a sense of community in what I think of as the outer blogosphere. (I had previously been blogging for years under a pseudonym in a more closed space with a smaller community.) I was going to need my new blogmates and this sense of being in touch with the outer world beginning the following month when M and I made a temporary move to West Chester, Pennsylvania (a town I referred to as Sabbaticalville while we were living there).
A ramble
Posted: October 17, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, Autumn, beginnings, Digital Art, Earth, fall, Fire, goals, home, Meditation, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, travel, Walking, water, weather | Tags: autumn, cycling, Digital Art, fall foliage, Goldie Hawn, Hermann Hesse, Hiking, MaidinSun Photography, meditation, nature, Oil Creek & Titusville Railroad, Oil Creek State Park, Outdoors, Pennsylvania, Photography, pond, quotes, reflections, travel, Tree, trees, water 36 Comments
Crates and barrels. (Petroleum Centre train depot. Oil Creek State Park, Pennsylvania.)
This is one of those posts where I have images, but no words of my own to go with them. Sometimes they turn out to be pretty decent posts. Other times, not so much. We’ll just have to wait and see where it goes.
Everybody’s walking
Posted: October 16, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in Life, Autumn, Daily Walk, Earth, exercise, fall, Fire, friends, goals, hiking, home, nature, Photography, Spirit, travel, Walking, water | Tags: autumn, Autumn leaf color, Blog Walk, fall foliage, Group Walk, Hiking, MaidinSun Photography, Mother Nature, nature, Oil Creek & Titusville Railroad, Oil Creek State Park, Outdoors, Pennsylvania, Photography, train, travel, trees, walk, water, William Cullen Bryant 35 Comments
Walking to the Petroleum Centre train station
The turnout for the group walk was great. Thank you all so much for participating. It’s been fun (and quite interesting!) being able to accompany you on your walks. Please visit the links as you work your way through this post. Just think of all the mileage you’ll get in without having to move. lol!
A walk along the Allegheny River
Posted: October 15, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in Life, Air, Autumn, Bicycle Adventures, Daily Walk, Earth, exercise, fall, Fire, goals, health, hiking, home, Local Tourists, nature, Photography, Spirit, travel, Walking, water, weather | Tags: Allegheny River, Allegheny River Trail, autumn, cycling, fall foliage, Hiking, Indian God Rock, MaidinSun Photography, Mother Nature, nature, Oil Creek State Park, Outdoors, Pennsylvania, travel, trees, water, weather, woods 36 Comments
Start
Thank you to everyone who joined in the group walk. I haven’t had a chance to join you all on your walks yet, having just arrived home a little while ago. I think everyone who needed a little extra time has managed to get their walks in so it probably won’t be necessary to extend the deadline. However, if you want to join in and haven’t had a chance to walk or do your blog post about it yet, let me know. I plan to do the wrap-up either tomorrow or Wednesday and will wait a bit if you need extra time.
Life in the Bogs 