Welcome to my personal blog. I enjoy researching our family history, walking in the woods, photographing nature, and collecting words and pictures. After living by the sea in southeastern Connecticut for forty-seven years, north central North Carolina has become my new home.
~ Barbara Rodgers

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If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke

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Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled – to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world.
~ Mary Oliver

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Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its own focus.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is death we're lengthy at, death the hinge to life.
~ Emily Dickinson

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9-30-16-0397

Posted on October 7, 2016Full size 573 × 600

2 thoughts on “9-30-16-0397”

jane tims says:

October 9, 2016 at 7:19 pm

Busy little girl … I love the photo with the chickens

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1. Barbara Rodgers says:
  
  October 10, 2016 at 10:33 am
  
  Thank you, Jane!
  
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