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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 old gull friend by Barbara Rodgers

My gull friend, since 2011.

Family History

  • Ancestor Table
  • Cemetery Index
  • Genetic Origins
  • Pedigree Collapse

My 2nd-great-grandmother, Anna Eliza Baker, and her daughter, standing behind her, my great-grandmother, Amanda Eliza Hamblin.

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red squirrel 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

white-tailed deer by Barbara Rodgers

Recent Posts

  • where a battle has been fought
  • paying attention
  • winter-patience
  • a light shines through us
  • a bit nippy
  • Zdynia, Poland
  • off the beaten path
  • first winter
  • snow melting in the oak-beech forest

Older Posts

Walking

  • Audubon
  • Avalonia Land Conservancy
  • Barn Island Wildlife Management Area
  • Bluff Point State Park
  • Connecticut College Arboretum
  • Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center
  • Groton Open Space Association
  • Haley Farm State Park
  • Harkness Memorial State Park
  • Hewitt Farm
  • Ledyard Conservation Commission
  • Mamacoke Island & Adjacent Coves
  • Poquetanuck Cove Preserve
  • Watch Hill Conservancy

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
  • birds
  • books
  • by the sea
  • cemetery
  • change
  • childhood
  • connection
  • coronavirus pandemic
  • creativity
  • earth
  • gardens
  • gulls/terns
  • here/now
  • history
  • hjemme
  • horizon
  • journey
  • life
  • light
  • magic
  • memory
  • music
  • mystery
  • nature
  • people
  • perception
  • pictures
  • place
  • self
  • snow
  • spirit
  • spring
  • storms
  • summer
  • sun
  • time
  • trees
  • universe
  • walks
  • winter
  • wonder
  • woods
  • 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: Tracy Brooks

wolf moon

gray wolf photo by Tracy Brooks
gray wolf photo by Tracy Brooks

sacred predator
wild spirit, guardian
howling, full wolf moon
~ Barbara Rodgers
(By the Sea)

Posted on January 26, 2013September 22, 2015Categories Tracy BrooksTags haiku, moon, nature, sacredness, snow, spirit, winter, wolf18 Comments on wolf moon
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