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).
In between
Posted: March 17, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, beginnings, Daily Walk, Digital Art, Earth, hiking, home, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, snow, Spirit, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: clouds, flowers, Hal Borland, Hiking, MaidinSun Photography, Margaret Atwood, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, reflections, snow, trees, Turkey Vulture, water, weather, wildflowers, winter 26 Comments
The tulips are coming up
Beginnings are sudden, but also insidious. They creep up on you sideways, they keep to the shadows, they lurk unrecognized. Then, later, they spring.
~ Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
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.
Herald of spring
Posted: March 10, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in art, Air, beginnings, Critters, Daily Walk, Digital Art, Earth, Fire, hiking, home, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Spring, Today's Joys, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: Aldo Leopold, birds, Charlotte Brontë, flowers, garden, Hiking, John Muir, MaidinSun Photography, Maya Angelou, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, Red-winged Blackbird, reflections, spring, trees, water, weather, winter 28 Comments
Electric crocuses
Spring drew on… and a greenness grew over those brown [garden] beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that Hope traversed them at night, and left each morning brighter traces of her steps.
~ Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
At the water’s edge
Posted: March 6, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, beginnings, Critters, Daily Walk, Digital Art, Earth, Fire, hiking, home, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, snow, Spirit, Today's Joys, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: birds, clouds, feathers, grasses, Hermann Hesse, Hiking, MaidinSun Photography, Margaret Atwood, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, reflections, snow, sunlight, trees, water, weather, winter 23 Comments
On the edge of the pond
Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.
~ Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
Lost in the details
Posted: March 1, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in art, Critters, Daily Walk, Digital Art, Earth, home, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, snow, Spirit, Today's Joys, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: Albert Einstein, Birdfeeder, clouds, flowers, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, postaday, quotes, RedBubble, reflections, snow, water, weather, William Morris, winter, WP Weekly Photo Challenge 54 Comments
Detailing the fence
Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.
~ Georgia O’Keeffe
Before we go for today’s walk, the Weekly Photo Challenge is Lost in the Details and I thought I’d take a stab at it. I actually took this photo while out on my morning walk, before I knew what the challenge would be. I like the details and texture of the fence, the snow, the wire, the wood slats, and even the fence post off to the left side of the photo. I don’t know why I keep coming back to this fence and the hay bale it sits on. I may have enough photos of them now to fill a large room. Perhaps it’s the wabi-sabi aspect. I’ve been watching the hay bale and fence slowly erode with time.
Life in the Bogs 