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In the Woods

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

red squirrel by Barbara Rodgers

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white-tailed deer by Barbara Rodgers

Life is death we're lengthy at, death the hinge to life.
~ Emily Dickinson

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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
  • change
  • childhood
  • connection
  • earth
  • gardens
  • gull
  • history
  • home
  • journey
  • life
  • light
  • magic
  • memory
  • moss
  • music
  • mystery
  • nature
  • pandemic
  • parks
  • people
  • perception
  • place
  • presence
  • seashore
  • self
  • signs
  • sky
  • snow
  • songbirds
  • songs
  • spirit
  • spring
  • storms
  • summer
  • sun
  • time
  • walks
  • waterbirds
  • 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

Family History Pages

  • *Our Ancestors
  • Atwood, Barnabas & Lydia Shurtleff
  • Atwood, Ebenezer & Waitstill Lucas
  • Atwood, Ichabod & Hannah Shaw
  • Atwood, John & Sarah Masterton
  • Atwood, Nathaniel & Abigail Shaw; Mary Adams
  • Atwood, Nathaniel & Mary
  • Atwood, Nathaniel & Zilpha Shurtleff
  • Atwood, Reuel & Abigail Savery Tillson
  • Atwood, Reuel Gardner & Louisa Jane Atwood
  • Atwood, Samuel & Patience Cobb
  • Baker, Benjamin & Eliza R. Eldridge
  • Bartlett, Benjamin & Ruth Peabody
  • Bartlett, Benjamin & Sarah Brewster
  • Brewster, Jonathan & Lucretia Oldham
  • Brewster, Love & Sarah Collier
  • Brewster, William & Mary
  • Case, Aaron Newton & Laura Amanda Roberts
  • Case, Hermon Roberts & Paulina Elizabeth Minor
  • Chomiak, William & Katherine Fusiak
  • Crowell, Joseph & Sarah Howes
  • Flanzer, Moritz Kalman & Sadie Roth
  • Freeman, Edmund & Bennett Hodsoll
  • Freeman, Edmund & Sarah Mayo
  • Freeman, Edmund & Sarah Sparrow
  • Freeman, John & Abigail Hopkins
  • Freeman, John & Mercy Prence
  • Freeman, Jonathan & Thankful Linnell
  • Freeman, Thomas & Roxanna Cash
  • Freeman, Warren & Elisabeth Weekes
  • Fusiak, Konrad & Ludmila Karasek
  • Hamblin, William & Amanda Bearse
  • Hamblin, William Nelson & Annie Eliza Baker
  • Hamilton, Andrew & Marie Chalmers
  • Hamilton, Benjamin & Rachel Gardner
  • Hamilton, Charles Amos & Gertrude Mabel Hubbard
  • Hamilton, Charles Munson & Eliza Ann Devoe
  • Hamilton, John & Elizabeth de Peyster
  • Hamilton, Stephen
  • Hamilton, William & Nellie Hurd
  • Hill, Robinson & Lydia
  • Hill, Rufus & Lydia White
  • Hopkins, Giles & Catherine Whelden
  • Hopkins, Joshua & Mary Cole
  • Hopkins, Joshua & Priscilla Curtis
  • Hopkins, Joshua & Rebecca Sparrow
  • Hopkins, Stephen & Mary
  • Howes, Jeremiah & Mary Daggett
  • Howes, Jeremiah & Sarah Prence
  • Hubbard, Delorma Brown & Emma J. Pridmore
  • Hubbard, Eliphalet & Abigail Johnson
  • Hubbard, John & Lydia P. Randolph
  • Hubbard, Joseph & Elizabeth Hollister
  • Hubbard, Joseph & Mabel Sutlief
  • Huntley, Aaron & Mary Champion
  • Huntley, Asher & Betsey Wilder Tiffany
  • Huntley, David & Mary Munsell
  • Huntley, Ezekiel & Naomi Tiffany
  • Huntley, John & Jane
  • Huntley, Leonard & Hannah Wheeler
  • Huntley, Loren Grant & Mary Jane Fowler
  • Koyl, Ephraim & Abigail Redding
  • Kyle, John & Agnes
  • Kyle, John & Mary
  • Lucas, Caleb & Asenath Shurtleff
  • Minor, Ezekiel & Margaret Beckwith
  • Minor, Joseph & Grace Turner
  • Minor, Martin & Elizabeth Davis
  • Minor, William & Naomi Reniff
  • Murdock, John & Ruth Bartlett
  • Nickerson, Joshua & Thankful Eldridge
  • Prence, Thomas & Patience Brewster
  • Pridmore, Abraham & Elizabeth Bramston
  • Pridmore, William & Anna Sturgess
  • Randolph, Abram & Jane Koyl
  • Raven, Henry Charles & Clarinda Sweet
  • Raven, Marion Case & Catherine Alta Verplanck
  • Raven, Peter & Rachel Groom
  • Raven, Peter George & Sabrina Cummins
  • Raven, William Franklin & Elona Naomi Case
  • Roberts, Lemuel & Ruth Woodford
  • Rodgers, Elijah & Zipporah Ann Horton
  • Rodgers, George Lincoln & Mary Jane Rodgers
  • Rodgers, Jacob & Mahala Bedford
  • Rodgers, Neadom & Hanorah O’Brien
  • Shaw, Elkanah & Elizabeth Atwood
  • Shurtleff, Abiel & Lydia Barnes
  • Shurtleff, Barnabas & Jemima Adams
  • Shurtleff, Francis & Mary Shaw
  • Shurtleff, William & Deborah Ransom
  • Shurtleff, William & Elizabeth Lettice
  • Shurtleff, William & Ruth Shaw
  • Shurtleff, William & Susanna Lothrop
  • Sparrow, Jonathan & Hannah Prence
  • Sparrow, Richard & Mercy Cobb
  • Sweet, Josiah & Eunice Day
  • Thompson, Elias & Elizabeth Davis
  • Thompson, James & Mary
  • Thompson, Martin & Ann Isabella Hughs
  • Thompson, Martin Edward & Elisabeth Emma Freeman
  • Thompson, Martin Freeman & Amanda Eliza Hamblin
  • Tillson, Ichabod & Azuba Thomas
  • Tillson, Stephen & Janet Murdock
  • Tønnes Ingebretsen & Kristin Kristensdatter
  • Tønnesen, Hans Mathias & Dorthea Larsdatter
  • Turner, Ezekiel & Susanna Keeney
  • Turner, John & Mary Brewster
  • Verplanck, George Washington & Ermina Huntley
  • Weekes, Ammiel & Phebe Small
  • Weekes, George & Deborah Wing
  • Weekes, Isaac & Elisabeth Allen
  • Weekes, Isaac & Thankful Nickerson
  • White, Austin & Lucy Ann Thompson
  • White, Oliver & Lydia
  • White, Samuel Minor & Emma Flora Atwood
  • White, William Martin & Ellen C. Hill

© 2010-2025 Barbara Rodgers

Tag: haiku

bright wings of autumn

“Butterfly in a Block Island Garden” by Timothy Rodgers

bright wings of autumn
flutter, lighting on the last
sweet sips of summer
~ Barbara Rodgers
(By the Sea)

Posted on October 3, 2012October 9, 2022Categories Block Island, TimTags autumn, butterfly, gardens, haiku, light, monarch butterfly, summer29 Comments on bright wings of autumn

gathering kindness

“Willow Tree” by Jin Nong
“Willow Tree” by Jin Nong

I hope to have gathered
To repay your kindness
The willow leaves
Scattered in the garden.
~ Matsuo Bashō
(The Narrow Road to the Deep North: And Other Travel Sketches)

Posted on June 10, 2011July 24, 2022Categories Jin Nong, Matsuo BashōTags gardens, haiku, kindness, willow14 Comments on gathering kindness

a handful of seeds

"Lone Chickadee in Snow" by Kathy Drue
“Lone Chickadee in Snow” by Kathy Drue

a handful of seeds
gently scattered on the snow
for a chickadee
~ Barbara Rodgers
(By the Sea)

Posted on January 22, 2011April 1, 2021Categories KathyTags black-capped chickadee, chickadee, haiku, hands, seed, snow, songbirds, winter7 Comments on a handful of seeds

earth brown dragonfly

Wilcox Park, Westerly, Rhode Island

earth brown dragonfly
landing lightly on yellow
bright technology

~ Barbara Rodgers
(By the Sea)

Posted on March 25, 2010May 11, 2021Categories Tim, Wilcox ParkTags brown, dragonfly, earth, haiku, halloween pennant, light, parks, technology, yellow4 Comments on earth brown dragonfly

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