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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
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

  • at the same time
  • the orator
  • red maple blossoms
  • natural stone throne
  • we were struck more than usual with the mosses and lichens
  • salt marsh, forest and scrubland
  • points of viewing
  • then maids dance in a ring
  • dunescape

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
  • at home
  • autumn
  • books
  • by the sea
  • cemetery
  • change
  • childhood
  • connection
  • coronavirus pandemic
  • earth
  • flying waterbirds
  • gardens
  • gull
  • here/now
  • history
  • horizon
  • in the woods
  • journey
  • life
  • light
  • magic
  • memory
  • music
  • mystery
  • nature
  • people
  • perception
  • pictures
  • place
  • self
  • sky
  • snow
  • songbirds
  • spirit
  • spring
  • storms
  • summer
  • sun
  • time
  • universe
  • walks
  • winter
  • wonder
  • words

Reading

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

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Category: Thomas Nashe

then maids dance in a ring

“Sounds of Spring” by Franz Stuck

Spring, the sweet spring, is the year’s pleasant king.
Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring;
Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing
Cuckoo, jug jug, pu we, to witta woo!

~ Thomas Nashe
(Thomas Nashe: Selected Works)

Posted on March 20, 2021March 29, 2021Categories Franz Stuck, Ostara, Thomas NasheTags circle, coronavirus pandemic, dance, equinox, music, people, spring26 Comments on then maids dance in a ring
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