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By the Sea

Welcome to my personal blog. I enjoy tracing our 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

red squirrel by Barbara Rodgers

Family History

  • Ancestor Table

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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

  • birds and sleigh bells
  • books, books, books
  • spring is surely coming
  • first nor’easter of the season
  • Pridmore Orphans

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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

Words & Pictures

  • ancestors
  • autumn
  • awareness
  • beauty
  • cemetery
  • change
  • connection
  • earth
  • flowers
  • gardens
  • gull
  • history
  • home
  • journey
  • leaves
  • life
  • light
  • love
  • magic
  • memory
  • mystery
  • pandemic
  • parks
  • people
  • perception
  • place
  • presence
  • seashore
  • sky
  • snow
  • songbirds
  • spirit
  • spring
  • storms
  • summer
  • sun
  • time
  • trees
  • walks
  • waterbirds
  • wildflowers
  • winds
  • winter
  • woodlands
  • world

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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Category: Marianne North

magic ~ water

mariannenorth-red-water-lily-of-southern-india
“Red Water Lily of Southern India” by Marianne North

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.
~ Loren Eiseley
(The Immense Journey:
An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man & Nature
)

Posted on July 12, 2017March 4, 2023Categories Loren Eiseley, Marianne NorthTags dragonfly, earth, exploration, imagination, lily, magic, mystery, planets, water, water lilyLeave a comment on magic ~ water
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