Winter time
Posted: January 24, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, beginnings, Critters, Daily Walk, Earth, Fire, home, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, snow, Spirit, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: birds, clouds, Haruki Murakami, Hiking, Lao Tzu, Lauren Oliver, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, quotes, snow, Snowsquall, Susan Sontag, T. S. Eliot, time, trees, water, weather, winter 54 Comments
Sunrise through a frosted window
It is a pretty day here in the Bogs. Mostly sunny with occasional snow squalls. I like watching the squalls move in on big, fluffy clouds of white and gray and blue.
A dark, damp day
Posted: December 19, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Autumn, Daily Walk, Earth, home, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Walking, wandering, water, weather | Tags: autumn, birds, clouds, Goldie Hawn, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, rain, Susan Sontag, trees, water, weather, wildflowers 32 Comments
The alcove
The lotus is the most beautiful flower, who petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the mud. In order to grow and gain wisdom, first you must have the mud — the obstacles of life and its suffering. … The mud speaks of a common ground that humans share, no matter what our stations in life. … Whether we have it all or we have nothing, we are all faced with the same obstacles: sadness, loss, illness, dying and death. If we are to strive as human beings to gain more wisdom, more kindness and more compassion, we must have the intention to grow as a lotus and open each petal one by one.
~ Goldie Hawn
236: Flourishing in the rain
Posted: May 17, 2011 Filed under: 365 Life in the Bogs Challenge, Adventures in Life, Earth, home, nature, Photography, Quotes, Spirit, Spring, Walking, water, weather | Tags: Boulder Colorado, Colorado, Friedrich Nietzsche, fungi, fungus, mushrooms, Photography, postaday2011, Rocky Mountain National Park, Susan Sontag, Thomas Carlyle 24 Comments
Nature alone is antique and the oldest art a mushroom.
~ Thomas Carlyle
While some things are not doing so well in our supersaturated system caused by all the rain, others are flourishing. The fungi are loving it.
Life in the Bogs 