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By the Sea

In still moments by the sea life seems large-drawn and simple. ~ Rolf Edberg

Welcome to my personal blog. I love family history, living by the sea, walking in the woods, nature photography, and collecting words and pictures.
~ Barbara Rodgers

My 2nd-great-grandmother, Annie Eliza Baker, and her daughter, standing behind her, my great-grandmother, Amanda Eliza Hamblin.

Family History

  • Ancestor Table
  • Cemetery Index
  • Genetic Origins
  • Pedigree Collapse
red squirrel by Barbara Rodgers

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white-tailed deer by Barbara Rodgers

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

Recent Posts

  • strong as a great oak
  • Delorma Brown Hubbard & Emma Pridmore
  • tipping rock
  • the comfort of a poem
  • even the smallest thing
  • on the existence of atoms
  • Elijah Rodgers & Zipporah Ann Horton
  • cabin fever countermeasure
  • snow bunting

Older 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

ring-billed gull by Barbara Rodgers

Words & Pictures

  • ancestors
  • autumn
  • birds
  • books
  • by the sea
  • cemetery
  • change
  • childhood
  • connection
  • coronavirus pandemic
  • earth
  • gardens
  • gulls/terns
  • here/now
  • history
  • hjemme
  • horizon
  • journey
  • life
  • light
  • magic
  • memory
  • music
  • mystery
  • nature
  • people
  • perception
  • pictures
  • place
  • self
  • sky
  • snow
  • spirit
  • spring
  • storms
  • summer
  • sun
  • time
  • trees
  • universe
  • walks
  • winter
  • wonder
  • woods
  • words

Reading

What is the singing of birds, or any natural sounds, compared with the voice of one we love?
~ Henry David Thoreau

Copyright

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Category: Janet Chui

first snow

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“First Snow” by Janet Chui

Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.
~ Andy Goldsworthy
(Midsummer Snowballs)

I am a book of snow,
a spacious hand, an open meadow,
a circle that waits,
I belong to the earth and its winter.
~ Pablo Neruda
(Winter Garden)

Posted on December 12, 2016December 5, 2016Categories Andy Goldsworthy, Janet Chui, Pablo NerudaTags books, childhood, circle, earth, meadows, mouse, rat, snow, waiting, winter8 Comments on first snow
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