27 pictures one kept

awe and gratitude

I sat tonight listening to music and watching clouds, the skies and the mountains.

I am and have been so blessed all my life.

I ask ~

why me ?

I have windows, but  7 windows that watch the evening skies

 from the sofa 

and each offered a different view of clouds, light 

and each was ever changing.

Why me here now?

My sitting was to quiet the dogs.

They quieted and I enjoyed, 

I relished, 

I basked.

This is my world and it is beyond magical.

It is awe filled.

When I shut my eyes it is still all around me,

when I leave here it is still here.

This is what this is about.  

Why me?  Why is it me that sits and enjoys quiet wonder

 good music, and sleeping dogs and peace, PEACE.

Why me here and now.

I could be in suburbia miles from this in a different life

or I could be not aware of 

all that surrounds me.

In these moments when I come to

I am so grateful

it hurts my heart.

Tonight was incredibly spiritual.

Not my doing,  one of those gifts that I get day in day out.

We all have gifts surrounding us

and so often we are busy with words, screens, people,

 and busy with nothing important.

Too busy to see the gifts given us.

I am in total awe of the clouds, and light tonight

the sounds, the peace

and I am thankful 

to the power that is

the great mystery

that showered me with the gift of evening.

amen

sights bog side

Mt. Tom in the distance

grasses caught in the tree during the flooding

The flooded bog road. Yes that is the road.
The waters here were 4 ft deep a week ago.

gray morning in the bog, lots of bird calls and some birders in.
The red winged blackbirds, ducks and geese along with the woodpeckers 
were all making a racket.

BARBED WIRE ALONG THE  ROAD OLD PASTURE - 

Nasty stuff, barbed wire was used for a reason.  Fencing now not as harmful.

Tacked into trees, the trees eventually grown around it, 

but the wounds in the tree often

brought in disease and rot.  

Many of the trees die.

artsy

once upon a time....

6 years ago an independant, unnamed, wild, male, merle Great Dane 

came into the world along with 12 siblings

and 8 weeks later he bought us.

Tim's dog.  My dog that we went to pick up was BLACK and FEMALE.

Day one he just walked away from us..... independant is his middle name

Biting the concrete bench day one.

Still independent and still wild, our boy is a scardy cat, and a clown.

He wags more than any dog.
AND
he plays hard, runs hard and sleeps hard.

AND 4-22-2014

he will be 6 years old.

What is sad is that one of his siblings Zeus, the biggest of the litter

did not make it to this birthday.

My heart goes out to Brad as I know this day is going to be a hard one for him

without his boy.

I could put up another 100 pictures of this boy.  

Will try to control myself, but.....

He is way cute and very easy to photograph.

twins with their parents

sounds like me

"I wasn’t lucky enough to have ever found what I wanted to do. 

Don’t get me wrong—
 I did nicely. But I never found my passion."




from Humans of New York.

easter

mosses are everywhere

With ice and snow sitting on them the last 4-5 months these mosses are slow to stand up

Mosses are in my woods, under the big oaks, on ledges, walls 

and now I have started some in the dome.

I can sit with moss forever.  

There are they say more than 10,000 mosses.  

These pictures are not close up shots and still they are stunning. 

 Get close and it gets better.  

Little worlds, treelike, textures, colors so primitive so unreal. 

I don't have to buy them, weed or care take them.

Oh joy

they just are 

and they are stunning.

Nature does it all and does it so well.

 To me is feels like stepping into a fairy world.  

These shots are of mosses just surfacing from the ice and snow this winter 

looking none the worst for wear..  

And mosses seem to always be with leaves, rocks, stumps, fallen trees, ferns

woodsy plants, 

which just makes them more alluring.