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

Family History

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If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke

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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
flying waterbirds
gardens
gull
history
home
journey
leaves
life
light
magic
memory
music
nature
pandemic
parks
people
perception
place
presence
seashore
sky
snow
songbirds
songs
spirit
spring
storms
summer
sun
time
trees
walks
wildflowers
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