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

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

Recent Posts

  • the adventure continues
  • longleaf pine and sand dune forest
  • 50 years!

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
  • beauty
  • change
  • childhood
  • connection
  • earth
  • gardens
  • gull
  • history
  • home
  • journey
  • life
  • light
  • magic
  • memory
  • moss
  • music
  • mystery
  • nature
  • pandemic
  • parks
  • people
  • perception
  • place
  • presence
  • seashore
  • self
  • signs
  • sky
  • snow
  • songbirds
  • songs
  • spirit
  • spring
  • storms
  • summer
  • sun
  • time
  • walks
  • waterbirds
  • 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

Family History Pages

  • *Our Ancestors
  • Atwood, Barnabas & Lydia Shurtleff
  • Atwood, Ebenezer & Waitstill Lucas
  • Atwood, Ichabod & Hannah Shaw
  • Atwood, John & Sarah Masterton
  • Atwood, Nathaniel & Abigail Shaw; Mary Adams
  • Atwood, Nathaniel & Mary
  • Atwood, Nathaniel & Zilpha Shurtleff
  • Atwood, Reuel & Abigail Savery Tillson
  • Atwood, Reuel Gardner & Louisa Jane Atwood
  • Atwood, Samuel & Patience Cobb
  • Baker, Benjamin & Eliza R. Eldridge
  • Bartlett, Benjamin & Ruth Peabody
  • Bartlett, Benjamin & Sarah Brewster
  • Brewster, Jonathan & Lucretia Oldham
  • Brewster, Love & Sarah Collier
  • Brewster, William & Mary
  • Case, Aaron Newton & Laura Amanda Roberts
  • Case, Hermon Roberts & Paulina Elizabeth Minor
  • Chomiak, William & Katherine Fusiak
  • Crowell, Joseph & Sarah Howes
  • Flanzer, Moritz Kalman & Sadie Roth
  • Freeman, Edmund & Bennett Hodsoll
  • Freeman, Edmund & Sarah Mayo
  • Freeman, Edmund & Sarah Sparrow
  • Freeman, John & Abigail Hopkins
  • Freeman, John & Mercy Prence
  • Freeman, Jonathan & Thankful Linnell
  • Freeman, Thomas & Roxanna Cash
  • Freeman, Warren & Elisabeth Weekes
  • Fusiak, Konrad & Ludmila Karasek
  • Hamblin, William & Amanda Bearse
  • Hamblin, William Nelson & Annie Eliza Baker
  • Hamilton, Andrew & Marie Chalmers
  • Hamilton, Benjamin & Rachel Gardner
  • Hamilton, Charles Amos & Gertrude Mabel Hubbard
  • Hamilton, Charles Munson & Eliza Ann Devoe
  • Hamilton, John & Elizabeth de Peyster
  • Hamilton, Stephen
  • Hamilton, William & Nellie Hurd
  • Hill, Robinson & Lydia
  • Hill, Rufus & Lydia White
  • Hopkins, Giles & Catherine Whelden
  • Hopkins, Joshua & Mary Cole
  • Hopkins, Joshua & Priscilla Curtis
  • Hopkins, Joshua & Rebecca Sparrow
  • Hopkins, Stephen & Mary
  • Howes, Jeremiah & Mary Daggett
  • Howes, Jeremiah & Sarah Prence
  • Hubbard, Delorma Brown & Emma J. Pridmore
  • Hubbard, Eliphalet & Abigail Johnson
  • Hubbard, John & Lydia P. Randolph
  • Hubbard, Joseph & Elizabeth Hollister
  • Hubbard, Joseph & Mabel Sutlief
  • Huntley, Aaron & Mary Champion
  • Huntley, Asher & Betsey Wilder Tiffany
  • Huntley, David & Mary Munsell
  • Huntley, Ezekiel & Naomi Tiffany
  • Huntley, John & Jane
  • Huntley, Leonard & Hannah Wheeler
  • Huntley, Loren Grant & Mary Jane Fowler
  • Koyl, Ephraim & Abigail Redding
  • Kyle, John & Agnes
  • Kyle, John & Mary
  • Lucas, Caleb & Asenath Shurtleff
  • Minor, Ezekiel & Margaret Beckwith
  • Minor, Joseph & Grace Turner
  • Minor, Martin & Elizabeth Davis
  • Minor, William & Naomi Reniff
  • Murdock, John & Ruth Bartlett
  • Nickerson, Joshua & Thankful Eldridge
  • Prence, Thomas & Patience Brewster
  • Pridmore, Abraham & Elizabeth Bramston
  • Pridmore, William & Anna Sturgess
  • Randolph, Abram & Jane Koyl
  • Raven, Henry Charles & Clarinda Sweet
  • Raven, Marion Case & Catherine Alta Verplanck
  • Raven, Peter & Rachel Groom
  • Raven, Peter George & Sabrina Cummins
  • Raven, William Franklin & Elona Naomi Case
  • Roberts, Lemuel & Ruth Woodford
  • Rodgers, Elijah & Zipporah Ann Horton
  • Rodgers, George Lincoln & Mary Jane Rodgers
  • Rodgers, Jacob & Mahala Bedford
  • Rodgers, Neadom & Hanorah O’Brien
  • Shaw, Elkanah & Elizabeth Atwood
  • Shurtleff, Abiel & Lydia Barnes
  • Shurtleff, Barnabas & Jemima Adams
  • Shurtleff, Francis & Mary Shaw
  • Shurtleff, William & Deborah Ransom
  • Shurtleff, William & Elizabeth Lettice
  • Shurtleff, William & Ruth Shaw
  • Shurtleff, William & Susanna Lothrop
  • Sparrow, Jonathan & Hannah Prence
  • Sparrow, Richard & Mercy Cobb
  • Sweet, Josiah & Eunice Day
  • Thompson, Elias & Elizabeth Davis
  • Thompson, James & Mary
  • Thompson, Martin & Ann Isabella Hughs
  • Thompson, Martin Edward & Elisabeth Emma Freeman
  • Thompson, Martin Freeman & Amanda Eliza Hamblin
  • Tillson, Ichabod & Azuba Thomas
  • Tillson, Stephen & Janet Murdock
  • Tønnes Ingebretsen & Kristin Kristensdatter
  • Tønnesen, Hans Mathias & Dorthea Larsdatter
  • Turner, Ezekiel & Susanna Keeney
  • Turner, John & Mary Brewster
  • Verplanck, George Washington & Ermina Huntley
  • Weekes, Ammiel & Phebe Small
  • Weekes, George & Deborah Wing
  • Weekes, Isaac & Elisabeth Allen
  • Weekes, Isaac & Thankful Nickerson
  • White, Austin & Lucy Ann Thompson
  • White, Oliver & Lydia
  • White, Samuel Minor & Emma Flora Atwood
  • White, William Martin & Ellen C. Hill

© 2010-2025 Barbara Rodgers

Category: Sunday

silent sunday

4.25.25
Posted on April 27, 2025April 25, 2025Categories Bolin Forest, SundayTags birdhouses, carolina chickadee, chickadee, home, spring, tyranny19 Comments on silent sunday

silent sunday

2.7.25
Posted on February 9, 2025April 6, 2025Categories North Carolina Botanical Garden, SundayTags eastern gray squirrel, gardens, meadowsweet, ozark witch-hazel, spirea, squirrel, tyranny, virginia spiraea, winter, witch hazel29 Comments on silent sunday

silent sunday

1.7.25
Posted on January 12, 2025January 7, 2025Categories North Carolina Botanical Garden, SundayTags downy woodpecker, gardens, landbirds, winter, woodlands, woodpecker17 Comments on silent sunday

silent sunday

9.4.24
Posted on September 8, 2024September 4, 2024Categories Cedar Falls Park, SundayTags autumn, eastern gray squirrel, parks, squirrel, woodlands27 Comments on silent sunday

silent sunday

6.1.24
Posted on June 9, 2024June 8, 2024Categories North Carolina Botanical Garden, SundayTags butterfly, dragonfly, gardens, great blue skimmer, sandhill thistle, spicebush swallowtail, summer, swallowtail, thistle25 Comments on silent sunday

silent sunday

4.9.24
Posted on April 21, 2024April 10, 2024Categories Bolin Forest, SundayTags azalea, home, rain, spring20 Comments on silent sunday

silent sunday

2.22.24
Posted on March 3, 2024February 29, 2024Categories North Carolina Botanical Garden, SundayTags carolina chickadee, chickadee, gardens, songbirds, winter18 Comments on silent sunday

silent sunday

1.26.24 ~ Fred
Posted on February 4, 2024January 29, 2024Categories Bolin Forest, Fred, SundayTags dogwood, eastern gray squirrel, flowering dogwood, home, squirrel, winter19 Comments on silent sunday

silent sunday

1.19.24 ~ Fred (photo by Tim)
Posted on January 21, 2024January 20, 2024Categories Bolin Forest, Fred, Sunday, TimTags eastern gray squirrel, home, squirrel, winter41 Comments on silent sunday

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