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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

  • spring is surely coming
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  • throwback thursday
  • for it knew now where it was going

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
  • mystery
  • pandemic
  • parks
  • people
  • perception
  • place
  • presence
  • 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: Wednesday

wordless wednesday

Posted on March 1, 2023Categories February, WednesdayTags home, signs, snow, trees, winter15 Comments on wordless wednesday

wordless wednesday

Posted on July 27, 2022July 25, 2022Categories Beach Pond, WednesdayTags killdeer, pandemic, summer, waterbirds21 Comments on wordless wednesday

wordless wednesday

Posted on August 12, 2020August 30, 2020Categories August, WednesdayTags angels, flowers, home, light, morning, pandemic, pine cone, sun, sunflower14 Comments on wordless wednesday

wordless wednesday

Posted on July 15, 2020February 17, 2021Categories Kat, Larisa, WednesdayTags pandemic, summer21 Comments on wordless wednesday
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