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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

  • 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
  • bark, fungi, lichen, moss (and a bird)
  • strong as a great oak
  • Delorma Brown Hubbard & Emma Pridmore

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

Copyright

© 2010-2021 Barbara Rodgers

Tag: months

pastoral

“May Pastoral” by Willard Metcalf

Besides this May
We know
There is Another —
How fair
Our Speculations of the Foreigner!

Some know Him whom We knew —
Sweet Wonder —
A Nature be
Where Saints, and our plain going Neighbor
Keep May!

~ Emily Dickinson
(The Poems of Emily Dickinson, #976)

Posted on May 6, 2019May 3, 2019Categories Emily Dickinson, May, Willard MetcalfTags months, nature, spring, wonder2 Comments on pastoral

moments

“The Butterfly” by Frederick Morgan

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
(Poems)

Posted on June 30, 2018April 11, 2021Categories Frederick Morgan, Rabindranath TagoreTags butterfly, here/now, months, time4 Comments on moments

December

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“La Belle Jardiniere ~ Décembre” by Eugène Grasset
Posted on December 1, 2017March 30, 2021Categories December, Eugène GrassetTags beauty, gardens, months13 Comments on December

November

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“La Belle Jardiniere ~ Novembre” by Eugène Grasset
Posted on November 1, 2017April 4, 2021Categories Eugène Grasset, November, SamhainTags beauty, cross quarter day, gardens, months2 Comments on November

October

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“La Belle Jardiniere ~ Octobre” by Eugène Grasset
Posted on October 1, 2017April 4, 2021Categories Eugène Grasset, OctoberTags beauty, gardens, monthsLeave a comment on October

September

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“La Belle Jardiniere ~ Septembre” by Eugène Grasset
Posted on September 1, 2017April 4, 2021Categories Eugène Grasset, SeptemberTags beauty, gardens, months8 Comments on September

August

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“La Belle Jardiniere ~ Août” by Eugène Grasset
Posted on August 1, 2017April 4, 2021Categories August, Eugène Grasset, LughnasaTags beauty, cross quarter day, gardens, months2 Comments on August

July

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“La Belle Jardiniere ~ Juillet” by Eugène Grasset
Posted on July 1, 2017April 4, 2021Categories Eugène Grasset, JulyTags beauty, gardens, months4 Comments on July

seashore roses

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“Seashore Roses” by Edward Atkinson Hornel (1864-1933)

It is the month of June,
The month of leaves and roses,
When pleasant sights salute the eyes,
And pleasant scents the noses.
~ Nathaniel Parker Willis
(The Month of June)

Posted on June 3, 2017March 25, 2021Categories Edward Atkinson Hornel, June, Nathaniel Parker WillisTags by the sea, leaf, months, perception, rose2 Comments on seashore roses

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