A monarch in the meadow
Posted: September 14, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in Life, Air, Critters, Earth, endings, Fire, goals, health, home, Letting Go, Meditation, Metta/Lovingkindness, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, Spirit, Summer, Walking, wandering, weather, yoga | Tags: butterfly, clouds, flowers, Health, Lovingkindness Meditation, Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness, MaidinSun Photography, Meadow, meditation, Mettā, Monarch (butterfly), nature, Outdoors, Photography, Sharon Salzberg, Summer, weather, wildflowers 29 Comments
Landing
The bud
stands for all things
even for those things that don’t flower,
for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing;
though sometimes it is necessary
to reteach a thing its loveliness,
to put a hand on the brow
of the flower,
and retell it in words and in touch,
it is lovely
until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing.~ Galway Kinnell
I’ve posted this poem sometime in the past (it seems like long ago), and it came to mind this morning as I was pondering “what next?”
Thursday Travels: Goodbye Laverty Falls
Posted: September 13, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in Life, Earth, Fire, Harvest, hiking, home, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Spring, Summer, Thursday Travels, travel, Vacation, Walking, water, weather | Tags: Canada, Canning, flowers, Fundy National Park, Hiking, Laverty Falls, MaidinSun Photography, nature, New Brunswick, Outdoors, Photography, pond, spring, Summer, travel, trees, water, weather, wildflowers, woods 29 Comments
One last look
Seated on a rock, having a snack, and listening to the falls, M and I stayed a while. When I finished my snack, I moved around, taking a lot of different photos of rocks, the water, and the falls. Someday (perhaps in the winter) I’ll have time to play with them. In the meantime, I’ll show a few, looking downstream from the waterfall.
Ripples of light
Posted: September 12, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Air, Earth, Fire, home, music, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Summer, Walking, water | Tags: Emily Dickinson, fog, MaidinSun Photography, Michael Franti & Spearhead, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, Summer, water 30 Comments
Early this morning
Whenever someone awakens fully,
it effects human consciousness
at a collective level.
It is like dropping a stone
into a dark murky pond.
Ripples of light!
Not one word need be spoken.~ Leonard Jacobsen
I’ll tell you how the sun rose
A ribbon at a time. . .~ Emily Dickinson
The music. 🙂
Canning
Posted: September 11, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Air, canning & freezing, Critters, Digital Art, Earth, Fire, food, garden, gardening, Harvest, home, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Summer, Walking, water, weather | Tags: birds, food, garden, Henry David Thoreau, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, reflections, Summer, tea, water, weather 17 Comments
Iced tea on the deck
It’s that time of year again. The tomatoes need to be canned. The peppers need to be frozen. Apples need to be turned into applesauce.
Cloud
Posted: September 10, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Air, Critters, Earth, home, Local Tourists, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Summer, Walking, water, weather | Tags: Albinism, Bird, Cloud, clouds, fall foliage, Leucism, MaidinSun Photography, Medina Raptor Center, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, Red-tail Hawk, reflections, Rudolfo Anaya, Summer, trees, water, weather, wildflowers 30 Comments
No, not that kind of cloud!
Dear Mom
Posted: September 9, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in Life, Air, Critters, Earth, family, goals, grandparenthood, home, Letting Go, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Summer, Walking, wandering, water | Tags: birds, death, flowers, great blue heron, Love, MaidinSun Photography, Mother, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, reflections, Summer, Sunflower, Thich Nhat Hanh, water, wildflowers 27 Comments
A sunflower for remembrance.
Well, it’s been three years now since you died. This is probably going to be the last year I’ll write to you on the date of your death. From now on, I’d rather celebrate the anniversary of your birth, and your life. I think of you often, and I’d rather not dwell on the cancer, the hospice room, and the sadness. I don’t believe you would have wanted that from any of us. I will, however, always remember those beautiful sunflowers.
Bridge
Posted: September 8, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in art, Adventures in Life, Bicycle Adventures, Digital Art, Earth, Gratitude, home, Letting Go, Local Tourists, music, nature, Photography, Quotes, Spirit, Summer, Today's Joys, Walking, water, weather | Tags: Arts, Audre Lorde, bridge, cycling, Digital Art, Henry David Thoreau, Kent Stage, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, rain, Roy H. Williams, Ruthie Foster, Summer, sunset, Towpath Trail, water, weather 20 Comments
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Life in the Bogs 