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By the Sea

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
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

  • a new sparrow and a new swallow
  • house finch, gray catbird, cottontail
  • deepest meaning, awe-inspiring workings
  • wildflower walk
  • around the pond, through the swamp
  • water-powered up-down sawmill
  • on the morning of the month’s first day
  • the new arrivals
  • healing by the sea

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
  • awareness
  • by the sea
  • cemetery
  • change
  • connection
  • creativity
  • earth
  • energy
  • flowers
  • food
  • gardens
  • gull
  • history
  • hjemme
  • horizon
  • in the woods
  • journey
  • light
  • magic
  • memory
  • mystery
  • pandemic
  • parks
  • perception
  • place
  • presence
  • rivers
  • sky
  • snow
  • solar festivals
  • songbirds
  • soul
  • spring
  • stones
  • storms
  • summer
  • sun
  • time
  • universe
  • walking
  • waterbirds
  • wind
  • winter

I acknowledge that my home occupies Pequot territory. I honor all Indigenous peoples who have been stewards of the land in the past, who currently dwell on the land, and who will continue to be part of this land for generations to come. ~ Barbara Rodgers

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

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

© 2010-2022 Barbara Rodgers

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, 2017April 23, 2021Categories Loren Eiseley, Marianne NorthTags dragonfly, earth, exploration, imagination, lily, magic, mystery, water, water lilyLeave a comment on magic ~ water
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