Tag: forest
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Trio
A trio of mushrooms in the woods – a happy family on nature’s floor. This post was in response to the Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenge. “Trio” is this week’s theme. Everyone is welcome to join in the Challenge; further details on how to participate and links to others’ responses are found here. Ciao! ~…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: The Golden Hour
Bloggers already have submitted many beautiful photos of sunrises and sunsets to illustrate this week’s theme, “The Golden Hour.” I love the way sunlight at the beginning and end of the day plays across the water — whether it be oceans, or lakes, or rivers. But, I came inland to the forest instead, where the…
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And then I’d just feel a prayer . . .
“Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I’d do. I’d go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I’d look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: The World Through Your Eyes
Having just emerged from several unplugged and off-the-grid days in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) Wilderness, images from that camping trip are fresh on my mind. Rather than sharing my view of the classic lakes and woods of the famed pristine wilderness, I am bringing you into the forest. The rains have been frequent,…
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Embracing the Beauty of Winter
I am wistfully wishing for more snow, as the last layer retreats with temperatures pushing 50 degrees Fahrenheit — an unseasonably warm day for early December. We are past the warm colors of autumn, and the green of spring is many months away. Living in northern Minnesota, you learn to embrace winter, or face the risk that…
Travel. Garden. Eat. 