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.
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
Lucky
Posted: March 5, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, Critters, Daily Walk, Earth, exercise, Fire, home, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Today's Joys, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: birds, Eric Kraft, Ernest Hemingway, flowers, Garrison Keillor, Hex sign, Hiking, Luck, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Pennsylvania Dutch, Photography, pond, quotes, Superstition, trees, water, weather, winter, woods 18 Comments
The Luck of the Barn
Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.
~ Garrison Keillor
Today’s Capture Your 365 prompt is Lucky, and the email suggested things such as horseshoes and four-leaf clovers and whatever might be lucky for you. M and I keep all our superstitions on the barn.
This is not the post I planned for today
Posted: February 25, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, beginnings, Daily Walk, Digital Art, Earth, Fire, home, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Today's Joys, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: birds, clouds, flowers, Hafiz, Henry Beston, MaidinSun Photography, Nathaniel Hawthorne, nature, Nora Roberts, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, trees, water, weather, winter, woods 38 Comments
Up in the clouds
Do you see that out there? The strange, unfamiliar light? It’s called the sun. Let’s go get us a little.
~ Nora Roberts, The Hollow
The sun came to visit today, and turned the sky the most amazing shades of blue. Although I had plenty of work to do indoors, I couldn’t resist the call to go out and play.
Spring auras
Posted: February 24, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, beginnings, Daily Walk, Digital Art, Earth, Fire, home, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, snow, Spirit, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: birds, clouds, crocus, flowers, MaidinSun Photography, Margaret Wise Brown, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, snow, trees, water, weather, winter, woods, Xiao Hong 29 Comments
Crossing the frozen tundra
When the groundhog casts his shadow
And the small birds sing
And the pussywillows happen
And the sun shines warm
And when the peepers peep
Then it is Spring~ Margaret Wise Brown
You would never know it from the feel and look of the place, but spring is out there. The earth is quickening, the plants are stirring, and the wildlife seems to have sensed that change is coming. Read the rest of this entry »
Backlit
Posted: February 6, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in art, Air, cats, Critters, Daily Walk, Earth, Fire, home, nature, Photography, Quotes, snow, Spirit, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: Backlight, birds, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Paulo Coelho, Photography, quotes, snow, sun, trees, water, weather, winter, woods 20 Comments
Sun bathing
We’re in charge of our photo adventures. Adventure means taking a different path. It can mean getting down on the ground for a really low angle shot, or photographing not the entire flower but a backlit petal.
~ Eddie Soloway
Today’s Capture Your 365 Challenge is Backlit. I had a little struggle with this one as it’s not something I do very often. That was one of the reasons I decided to take on some of the prompts. For the challenge (and the fun of the challenge).
Life in the Bogs 