Listening to the grass
Posted: January 19, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, Daily Walk, Earth, Fire, home, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: birds, goose, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, Quail Hollow State Park, quotes, trees, water, weather, William Shakespeare, winter 21 Comments
Listening in
I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.
~ William Shakespeare
I’m not sure why I picked this quote. Old Will was wrong on two counts: I love this place (not far from “like,” but stronger), and I don’t consider my time spent in it a waste.
Routine
Posted: January 2, 2013 Filed under: 365 Life in the Bogs Challenge, Adventures in art, Art, beginnings, Critters, Daily Walk, Earth, home, life, nature, Photography, Quotes, snow, Spirit, Walking, water, weather, winter | Tags: birds, Book review, Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, Henry Van Dyke, Hiking, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, Quail Hollow State Park, quotes, TLC Book Tours 25 Comments
Winter colors
As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.
~ Henry Van Dyke
Hello 2013!
Posted: January 1, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, beginnings, celebrations, Critters, Daily Walk, Earth, hiking, holidays, home, Karma's Photo Hunt, nature, Photography, pond, snow, Spirit, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: birds, cardinals, Hiking, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, Quail Hollow State Park, snow, trees, water, weather, winter, woods 57 Comments
Snow blowing
We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives… not looking for flaws, but for potential.
~ Ellen Goodman
Happy 2013!
The wonders of winter
Posted: December 30, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Daily Walk, Earth, exercise, Fire, hiking, home, Local Tourists, nature, Photography, pond, snow, Spirit, Today's Joys, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: clouds, cross-country skiing, Hiking, Holden Arboretum, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Photography, pond, Quail Hollow State Park, Ski, snow, trees, water, weather, winter, winter landscape 39 Comments
You probably don’t have to be a long-time visitor to Life in the Bogs to know winter is my favorite season. I love it, most especially when there is snow. Snow is necessary for a proper, enjoyable winter. I’ve lived in places where they have rainy, dreary winters, and that’s no fun at all. If gray, wet days are what you experience during the winter months, I can understand not loving the season.
Quail Hollow
Posted: October 21, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, Autumn, Daily Walk, Earth, fall, Fire, hiking, home, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Sunday signage, Walking, water, weather | Tags: autumn, fall foliage, Fracking, Hiking, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, Quail Hollow State Park, trees, water, weather, woods 37 Comments
In yesterday’s post (Earth’s eye), I mentioned that a nearby state park, Quail Hollow, is scheduled to be the first state park in Ohio where fracking is allowed to take place. Today the Coalition to Protect Ohio’s Parks with hikers from the Sierra Club, the Ohio Environmental Council, the Mohican Advocates, the Buckeye Forest Council, and some local people joined together for a hike to protest the fracking. It was an interesting and educational hike, with a naturalist, to show why it is important to preserve the park (and others like it).
Earth’s eye
Posted: October 20, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, Autumn, current events, Digital Art, Earth, fall, Fears, Fire, hiking, home, Letting Go, Meditation, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, rants, Spirit, Walking, water | Tags: Aldo Leopold, autumn, clouds, fall foliage, Fracking, Henry David Thoreau, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, Quail Hollow State Park, quotes, reflections, water 42 Comments
A lake is the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
~ Henry David Thoreau, Walden, “The Ponds” (1854)
If you live in northeast Ohio and you’re a fan of Quail Hollow State Park, please read on.
Let’s walk
Posted: July 20, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in Life, Earth, goals, health, home, nature, Photography, Spirit, Summer, Walking, water, weather, yoga | Tags: Columbus, Hiking, nature, Outdoors, Photography, Quail Hollow State Park, Summer, The Color Run, trees, walking, water, weather, woods 44 Comments
Through the archway
Yesterday, in the morning before the rains came, I went for a hike at Quail Hollow State Park. Photos for today’s post are from that hike. I hiked 5k, a practice run for tomorrow’s Color Run (which I’ll be walking, as I expect quite a few folks will be doing since it’s not a race but something done for fun).
Life in the Bogs 