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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
  • hjemme
  • 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: months

August

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“La Belle Jardiniere ~ Août” by Eugène Grasset
Posted on August 1, 2017March 5, 2023Categories August, Eugène GrassetTags beauty, 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 3, 2023Categories Edward Atkinson Hornel, June, Nathaniel Parker WillisTags childhood, eyes, months, noses, perception, rose, seashore2 Comments on seashore roses

June

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“La Belle Jardiniere ~ Juin” by Eugène Grasset
Posted on June 1, 2017March 25, 2021Categories Eugène Grasset, JuneTags beauty, gardens, monthsLeave a comment on June

May

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“La Belle Jardiniere ~ Mai” by Eugène Grasset
Posted on May 1, 2017November 1, 2022Categories Eugène Grasset, MayTags beauty, gardens, months2 Comments on May

April

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“La Belle Jardiniere ~ Avril” by Eugène Grasset

Posted on April 1, 2017April 15, 2018Categories April, Eugène GrassetTags beauty, gardens, months2 Comments on April

first spring day

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“Spring” by Edvard Munch

The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.
~ Henry Van Dyke
(Fisherman’s Luck & Some Other Uncertain Things)

~ spring equinox ~

Posted on March 20, 2017March 3, 2023Categories Edvard Munch, Henry Van Dyke, Ostara, Spring EquinoxTags day, equinox, months, solar festivals, spring8 Comments on first spring day

March

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“La Belle Jardiniere ~ Mars” by Eugène Grasset
Posted on March 1, 2017April 11, 2021Categories Eugène Grasset, MarchTags beauty, gardens, months2 Comments on March

February

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“La Belle Jardiniere ~ Février” by Eugène Grasset
Posted on February 1, 2017November 1, 2022Categories Eugène Grasset, FebruaryTags beauty, gardens, months4 Comments on February

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