Welcome to my personal blog. I love family history, living by the sea, walking in the woods, nature photography, and collecting words and pictures. I am a cancer survivor and am learning to live with pelvic radiation disease. Southeastern Connecticut is my home.
~ Barbara Rodgers

Family History

Ancestor Table
Cemetery Index
Genetic Origins

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May the nourishment of the earth be yours, may the clarity of light be yours, may the fluency of the ocean be yours, may the protection of the ancestors be yours. And so may a slow wind work these words of love around you, an invisible cloak to mind your life.
~ John O’Donohue

Archived Posts

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

Words & Pictures

ancestors
autumn
awareness
cemetery
change
connection
earth
flowers
food
gardens
gull
history
hjemme
horizon
journey
leaves
life
light
magic
memory
mystery
pandemic
parks
people
perception
place
presence
rivers
seashore
sky
snow
songbirds
spirit
spring
stones
storms
summer
sun
time
walking
waterbirds
wildflowers
wind
winter
woodlands

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