Last call
Posted: March 19, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in art, Adventures in Life, Air, beginnings, Earth, endings, Fire, goals, home, Letting Go, life, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: Blog, clouds, Colorado, Hiking, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, rain, reflections, snow, trees, water, weather, winter 56 Comments
The end
There are things we never want to let go of, people we never want to leave behind. But keep in mind that letting go isn’t the end of the world; it’s the beginning of a new life.
~ Unattributed
So. This is it. My last post here at Life in the Bogs. From here on out, you will find me at Breezes at Dawn, my new blog home. Please join me there so we can continue our adventures together.
The Penultimate
Posted: March 18, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in Life, Air, beginnings, celebrations, Critters, Digital Art, Earth, endings, Fire, goals, Gratitude, home, Letting Go, life, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, snow, Spirit, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: Canadian Maritimes, flowers, Hiking, MaidinSun Photography, NaBloPoMo, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, rain, Ralph Waldo Emerson, reflections, San Diego, snow, trees, water, weather, wildflowers, winter, woods 43 Comments
Let’s cross the bridge to the past. (Somewhere in Pennsylvania, sometime in September of 2006.)
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.
~ Ivy Baker Priest
Back in September of 2006, in anticipation of a temporary move to West Chester, Pennsylvania, I started a little blog called Life in the Bogs. It was not meant to be anything more than an online newsletter for family and friends so they could keep up with M and I as we went on our sabbatical adventures. This was not my first experience with blogging. I’ve been doing it in some form since 1999. But Life in the Bogs was the first blog I created under my own name (rather than a pseudonym).
Anahata
Posted: March 12, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, beginnings, Daily Walk, Digital Art, Earth, hiking, home, Mindfulness, music, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Today's Joys, Walking, wandering, water, winter | Tags: Anahata, Capture Your 365, Clover, daffodils, flowers, Green, Heart Chakra, Hiking, MaidinSun Photography, music, nature, Oscar Wilde, Outdoors, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Photography, pond, quotes, rain, Sanskrit, snow, Tom Waits, water, weather, winter, woods 8 Comments
The elusive clover
Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Spanish Poet and Playright, 1600-1681
Shamrock (or Clover) is the Capture Your 365 prompt for today, but we were also given a little wiggle room with a second choice of Green. I almost had to take it because finding a clover, any clover, was not easy. This one was sticking its little head out of the water at the edge of the pond. We had a lot of rain overnight and the pond level is above where it should be, the water spreading out on the lawn. Not that it matters. It’s all one big puddle out there today.
Liquid
Posted: March 11, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Abstracts, Adventures in art, Air, Daily Walk, Digital Art, Earth, hiking, home, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Today's Joys, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: Capture Your 365, clouds, Cyril Connolly, Fred Rogers, Hiking, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, rain, reflections, trees, water, weather, winter 26 Comments
Liquid reflections
It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
~ Erica Jong
Today’s Capture Your 365 prompt is Liquid. You can find plenty of liquid here in the Bogs, especially since it’s been raining for a good part of the day.
In an abstract frame of mind
Posted: February 27, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Abstracts, Adventures in art, Air, Daily Walk, Digital Art, Earth, Fire, home, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: Abstract art, birds, David Lynch, flowers, goose, Lucian Freud, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Outdoors, Pablo Picasso, Photography, pond, rain, reflections, water, weather, wildflowers, winter 36 Comments
Mirror, mirror. (An abstract created from reflections in a puddle on the front lawn.)
It is gray and windy here in the Bogs today. But I got lucky. When I stepped outside for my walk late this morning, I caught a patch of blue sky between the dark, gray clouds, and a few rays of sunshine streamed down for a minute or two.
The banded goose and other tales
Posted: February 22, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, Critters, Daily Walk, Earth, home, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, snow, Spirit, Walking, water, weather, winter | Tags: Akimiski Island, Bird Banding Laboratory, birds, Canada, goose, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Nunavut, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, rain, snow, water, weather, wildflowers, winter 33 Comments
Geese on ice
Do you remember the banded goose? (That link takes you to a photo. If you want to see the original posts regarding the banded goose, they are here, here, and here.) In case you don’t remember or you’re new here, and you don’t feel like following the links, the basic story is this: A goose with a band around its neck visited the pond back in January, and I reported the goose to the Bird Banding Laboratory to help with their research as well as to see if I could get any information about the goose. Read the rest of this entry »
Blustery Day
Posted: February 11, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, beginnings, Daily Walk, Earth, home, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: clouds, flowers, MaidinSun Photography, Milne, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, rain, water, weather, Winnie the Pooh, winter 51 Comments
‘What day is it?’, asked Winnie the Pooh
‘It’s today,’ squeaked Piglet
‘My favorite day,’ said Pooh~ A. A. Milne
Life in the Bogs 