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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

  • roses by the sea
  • missing the lighthouses already
  • the light-footed goats
  • one morning in two lovely spring gardens
  • our four dozen anniversary

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
  • cemetery
  • change
  • connection
  • earth
  • flowers
  • gardens
  • gull
  • history
  • home
  • journey
  • leaves
  • life
  • light
  • love
  • magic
  • memory
  • pandemic
  • parks
  • people
  • perception
  • place
  • presence
  • rivers
  • 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

© 2010-2023 Barbara Rodgers

Category: Silent Sunday

Silent Sunday

Easter Sunday 1962
Barbara, 5, and Beverly, 4

Posted on April 9, 2023April 6, 2023Categories Beverly, Easter, Silent Sunday, Spring EquinoxTags childhood, spring23 Comments on Silent Sunday

Silent Sunday

1.28.23
Posted on January 29, 2023April 6, 2023Categories Coogan Farm Nature & Heritage Center, Silent SundayTags leaves, light, marcescence, shadow, winter17 Comments on Silent Sunday

Silent Sunday

9.2.16 ~ The Captain
Posted on September 6, 2020April 6, 2023Categories Eastern Point, Silent Sunday, The CaptainTags autumn, gull, herring gull, pandemic, waterbirds22 Comments on Silent Sunday

Silent Sunday

8.23.14
Posted on August 30, 2020April 6, 2023Categories Groton Family Farm, Silent SundayTags pandemic, sheep, summer6 Comments on Silent Sunday
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