Gosh your words conjure such feeling and imagery Carrie. Every line... Thank you for sharing. Glad you enjoyed your vacation. Wanted to share one thing that the community may be interested in doing, that I did. I promise you, it will bring such wonder and joy, as it did for me and my family. It won’t disappoint. What you can do is sprinkle bird seed in your yard, over the snow, in the shape of a really big heart. Place the seed by a window in your home where you can take pictures as the little birds land and fly, back and forth onto the seed and together, cluster in the shape of a living heart. One of my smaller pictures was a zoomed in close up of one of the round bellied junko birds who feasted under the last ray of sunlight, at days end. Make sure to use small bird seed, not cardinal seed, or the squirrels will dominate the seed and scare the birds away. We created another heart with cardinal seed and let the squirrels have their own feast too. You can also create cardinal seed cups with hollowed orange halves and hang them in the trees, as you probable know, they are solitary birds. We hung our seed cups in our pines.
Hi Carrie, Is it possible you forgot to include that link to the Paradigms interview you mentioned in your post? or maybe I misunderstood. I would like to listen to that interview. thank you for the hopeful work you do
The idea of snorkeling in the Caribbean sounds really nice right now with temps just over 10 degrees!
I love the beauty of getting close with photography in that it reveals a world that we otherwise would miss. It requires slowing down, getting still, and also sometimes even looking a little weird as one might be laying down on a path with a camera right up to some subject.
"May we all listen in the silence..." The newly fallen snow, arriving late but welcome, has laid a cloak of stillness over the fields. A fresh white canvas awaiting the tracks of mice, muskrats, birds, deer, coyotes, my dog and me. My photo - delicately detailed ice crystals on the frosty window.
Two thoughts. My Google photos this morning provided me with randomly selected photos I had taken this past year. There were some really special, once-in-a-lifetime moments captured, (my daughter’s wedding, her prolonged serious illness, and grateful recovery) along with more everyday moments, and even a picture I took to make sure I got the right item at the grocery store. All there together. There’s a lesson there somewhere. And secondly, I noticed that a small cut on my hand, one that had hurt so much one day last week, was nearly healed and invisible today, but still showing a little reminder. There’s a lesson there too, I think. Carrie, I hope you brought back at least one interesting rock or shell from your adventure.
Carrie, I love to read your inspirational notes every Sunday. Thank you for posting your photos of tiny things. On a family hike in northeast Iowa I introduced the idea of looking closely at the abundant wildflowers to my 10 and 14 year old granddaughters. They teased me about it but I could tell they loved the idea!
I hear the beginnings of a song here… “Winter melts into spring. Spring waves her light green scarf in a sweet farewell as summer saunters, then swaggers in. Autumn shakes hands with summer, bows then turns with its basket of harvest into the shortening days.” Just sayin’!
Melting is a great metaphor, the seasons flow into one another. This year, I have not tried to Rev up my life on 1/1 and have let my energy rise slowly into the new year. It feels better for me.
The calendar is a human invention. What if we ignore it and don't think about beginnings and endings, about birth and death, and just view existence as seamlessly cyclical?
Jo, yes! “seamlessly cyclical” is my life pattern. I can’t dwell in the endings that are beginnings for very long but I can see the repeating patterns that are present...some I have learned my lesson from and left that pattern out; but onward I go up and down my nautilus life!
So glad that you got to sea the reef life ! I feel confident that you were close to heaven.
KUDOS , good for you !
I love the idea of the 1 inch shots. I took a 1 inch of ice formations on my window yesterday. The intricacies are miracuous
This morning I just took a close-up photo of a sumo orange as I fixed it for breakfast. It's little "nose" is so beautiful--inside and out!
Gosh your words conjure such feeling and imagery Carrie. Every line... Thank you for sharing. Glad you enjoyed your vacation. Wanted to share one thing that the community may be interested in doing, that I did. I promise you, it will bring such wonder and joy, as it did for me and my family. It won’t disappoint. What you can do is sprinkle bird seed in your yard, over the snow, in the shape of a really big heart. Place the seed by a window in your home where you can take pictures as the little birds land and fly, back and forth onto the seed and together, cluster in the shape of a living heart. One of my smaller pictures was a zoomed in close up of one of the round bellied junko birds who feasted under the last ray of sunlight, at days end. Make sure to use small bird seed, not cardinal seed, or the squirrels will dominate the seed and scare the birds away. We created another heart with cardinal seed and let the squirrels have their own feast too. You can also create cardinal seed cups with hollowed orange halves and hang them in the trees, as you probable know, they are solitary birds. We hung our seed cups in our pines.
Hope you are all enjoying the snow.
Hi Carrie, Is it possible you forgot to include that link to the Paradigms interview you mentioned in your post? or maybe I misunderstood. I would like to listen to that interview. thank you for the hopeful work you do
CW
The idea of snorkeling in the Caribbean sounds really nice right now with temps just over 10 degrees!
I love the beauty of getting close with photography in that it reveals a world that we otherwise would miss. It requires slowing down, getting still, and also sometimes even looking a little weird as one might be laying down on a path with a camera right up to some subject.
"May we all listen in the silence..." The newly fallen snow, arriving late but welcome, has laid a cloak of stillness over the fields. A fresh white canvas awaiting the tracks of mice, muskrats, birds, deer, coyotes, my dog and me. My photo - delicately detailed ice crystals on the frosty window.
Two thoughts. My Google photos this morning provided me with randomly selected photos I had taken this past year. There were some really special, once-in-a-lifetime moments captured, (my daughter’s wedding, her prolonged serious illness, and grateful recovery) along with more everyday moments, and even a picture I took to make sure I got the right item at the grocery store. All there together. There’s a lesson there somewhere. And secondly, I noticed that a small cut on my hand, one that had hurt so much one day last week, was nearly healed and invisible today, but still showing a little reminder. There’s a lesson there too, I think. Carrie, I hope you brought back at least one interesting rock or shell from your adventure.
Carrie, I love to read your inspirational notes every Sunday. Thank you for posting your photos of tiny things. On a family hike in northeast Iowa I introduced the idea of looking closely at the abundant wildflowers to my 10 and 14 year old granddaughters. They teased me about it but I could tell they loved the idea!
Thank you for sharing your experiences of wonder as you explore the beauty around you. I really look forward to your Sunday posts. 💜
Wrapped in a prayer shawl of snow ... I think I will hold that image for the rest of time. Just lovely. Thank you.
I hear the beginnings of a song here… “Winter melts into spring. Spring waves her light green scarf in a sweet farewell as summer saunters, then swaggers in. Autumn shakes hands with summer, bows then turns with its basket of harvest into the shortening days.” Just sayin’!
Melting is a great metaphor, the seasons flow into one another. This year, I have not tried to Rev up my life on 1/1 and have let my energy rise slowly into the new year. It feels better for me.
The calendar is a human invention. What if we ignore it and don't think about beginnings and endings, about birth and death, and just view existence as seamlessly cyclical?
Jo, yes! “seamlessly cyclical” is my life pattern. I can’t dwell in the endings that are beginnings for very long but I can see the repeating patterns that are present...some I have learned my lesson from and left that pattern out; but onward I go up and down my nautilus life!