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
The frost fairies were here this morning
Posted: March 9, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Daily Walk, Earth, Fire, home, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, Spirit, Today's Joys, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: bokeh, flowers, frost, George Eliot, Hiking, Jack Kornfield, MaidinSun Photography, Mary Rose O'Reilley, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, Thich Nhat Hanh, water, weather, wildflowers, winter 25 Comments
Sap-cicles at sunrise
Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulations of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.
~ George Eliot
Charmed
Posted: March 8, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in art, Daily Walk, Digital Art, Earth, Fire, home, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Today's Joys, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: clouds, flowers, gratitude, Hiking, Katrina Kenison, MaidinSun Photography, Meditations from the Mat, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rasheed Ogunlaru, Rolf Gates, trees, water, weather, wildflowers, winter, woods 30 Comments
The neighbor’s tree
In life one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day — or to celebrate each special day.
~ Rasheed Ogunlaru
Thursday Travels: Leaving the Glasgow Lakes Look-Off Trail
Posted: March 7, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in Life, Earth, hiking, home, music, nature, Photography, Quotes, Spirit, Spring, Thursday Travels, travel, Vacation, videos, water, weather, winter | Tags: Canada, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Henry Miller, Hiking, Macy Gray, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Paquette Lake, Photography, quotes, spring, Thursday Travels, Trail, travel, water, weather, wildflowers, winter 14 Comments
(8 June 2012. Glasgow Lakes Look-Off Trail. Cape Breton Highlands National Park. Nova Scotia.)
Now that we’ve had a little rest on that rock just to the right, it’s time to make our way back. We have other trails to hike since this one turned out to be under water.
Monday morning walk
Posted: March 4, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, Critters, Daily Walk, Earth, Fire, home, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, snow, Spirit, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: birds, flowers, Icicle, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, snow, water, weather, wildflowers, winter 28 Comments
Icicles hanging from the barn roof
Let’s take a walk. It’s cold, but sunny. Bundle up and you’ll be fine. And boots! Don’t forget to wear boots. This is the Bogs, after all.
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.
Life in the Bogs 