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.
Solitary
Posted: September 25, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in Life, Air, Autumn, Bicycle Adventures, Earth, exercise, family, Fire, home, Local Tourists, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Summer, Walking, water, weather | Tags: Akron, Alice Koller, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, autumn, cycling, fall foliage, flowers, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, Rabbi Nachman, Solitude, Summer, trees, water, weather, wildflowers, woods, WP Weekly Photo Challenge 45 Comments
Solitary
Grant me the ability to be alone; may it be my way every day
to go outdoors among the trees and grasses,
among all growing things, and there may I be alone,
to talk with the one that I belong to.~ Rabbi Nachman of Bratzlav
Dreaming
Posted: July 14, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in Life, Air, Digital Art, Earth, hiking, home, nature, Photography, Spirit, Spring, Summer, travel, Vacation, Walking | Tags: Canada, Digital Art, Dreaming, forest, Fundy National Park, Gloria Steinem, Hiking, Jack Kerouac, nature, New Brunswick, Outdoors, path, Photography, quotes, spring, travel, trees, water, woods, WP Weekly Photo Challenge 37 Comments
Dreaming the Boreal Forest
I’ve been dreaming of walks in the woods lately, journeying with bears and snakes and wolves. The dreams are not frightening at all although I sometimes wake up feeling as if I went on a very long hike. The dreams are why I picked the above photo for the Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming. It was taken in New Brunswick, Canada, in the Fundy National Park somewhere on the Laverty Falls Trail.
The challenge calls for using a long exposure technique, but I really can’t do that with my point & shoot camera (not well, at any rate) so I elected to interpret the dreamy state with some processing in Photoshop.
Out of the blue
Posted: May 15, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in Life, Air, Earth, Fire, goals, health, home, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Spring, Walking, water, weather | Tags: Blue, Color, flowers, Halo, John Ruskin, nature, Outdoors, Pansy, Photography, pond, spring, water, WP Weekly Photo Challenge 43 Comments
Halo around the sun
Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the deity to be a source of delight.
~ John Ruskin
I once explored blue as part of my color series on my other blog (you can find that post here). I also did a little booklet for friends and family about the colors blue and purple (available here if you’re interested). And now I get to explore the color again since the Weekly Photo Challenge is Blue.
Unfocused
Posted: May 9, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in art, Air, Earth, Emma, family, grandparenthood, home, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Spring, Walking, water, weather | Tags: clouds, dance, flowers, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, spring, water, wildflowers, WP Weekly Photo Challenge 47 Comments
Ballerinas unfocused
The photo challenge for this week is Unfocused. Unfocused is usually the state of the photographs I take at my granddaughter Emma’s dance recitals. Every now and then, I find myself liking one or two of the unfocused shots. (You might want to click on the first photo for a better look at it.)
Hope
Posted: January 28, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in Life, Air, Earth, exercise, goals, home, nature, Photography, pond, snow, Spirit, water, weather, winter | Tags: Hope, nature, Photography, pond, reflections, snow, trees, water, winter, WP Weekly Photo Challenge 43 Comments
The rowboat in a snow squall waiting for warmer weather. Or…
WPC: Sunset
Posted: October 6, 2011 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Autumn, Earth, fall, Fire, home, nature, Photography, Spirit, Walking, water, weather, yoga | Tags: autumn, autumn leaves, fall foliage, forest, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Photography, postaday2011, sunset, Theodore Roethke, woods, WP Weekly Photo Challenge 21 Comments
I hadn’t planned to participate in this week’s Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge. Mother Nature made it impossible to say no by providing some gorgeous colors at sunset yesterday evening. I can’t resist shiny objects and pretty colors.
Life in the Bogs 