Category Archives: Nature

Holidays, Nature, Seasons

Green Things (In honor of the upcoming St. Patty’s Day)

  • Shamrocks
  • The Chicago River on St. Patrick’s Day
  • Grass in the spring
  • New buds on a tree
  • Cash
  • The sky when a tornado is brewing
  • The Christmas tree still up in my living room
  • Moss
  • Turtles
  • The cover of the book I’ve been reading
  • Towels in my guest bathroom
  • The Northern Lights
  • Ivy
  • Poison Ivy
  • Apples
  • The Green Bay Packers logo
  • Broccoli
  • Spinach
  • Dinosaurs (or so we theorize)
  • Oscar the Grouch
  • Kermit the Frog
  • Lizards
  • Chameleons
  • Kiwi
  • Seaweed
  • Mint chocolate chip ice cream
  • Lime sherbet
  • Emeralds
  • Watermelon
  • The new shirt I bought to wear on Monday
  • Aged copper
  • Avocados
  • Jealousy
  • Health food
  • Romaine Lettuce
  • The BP Logo (which, as it turns out, is designed by a friend of a friend)
  • Evergreen trees
  • Bananas that aren’t ripe

 

Favorites, Nature, Travel

My Favorite Relaxing Environments

  1. Sunshine filtering through a window, illuminating particles of dust
  2. Open windows with birds chirping outside
  3. Night breeze filled with the sounds of tree frogs
  4. Deserted beach, tide licking my toes
  5. Cuddled under a blanket on a chilly evening
  6. Warm PJs and my monkey slippers
  7. Floating in an otherwise empty pool
  8. Dozing on my comfy couch, outside sounds and a clock ticking
  9. Under a shade tree on a hot afternoon
  10. Stretched out on my bed reading a book
  11. Staring into a flickering camp fire, smoke curling in heavy air
  12. Prone on flat rocks jutted out into a north woods lake, greens and blues and oranges dancing across the sky
  13. Alone in a tent, baking in the warmth, listening to the wind brush through pine forests
  14. Front of the canoe, oars slipping through glass water
  15. Barefoot on my deck, wind chimes whispering
  16. At the bottom of a crashing waterfall
  17. On the bench next to the pond where I live

Events, Family, Inspirational, Nature, Sycamore, Travel, Work, Writing

Things I Wasn’t Sure I Could Do But I Did

  • The portage to Sunbeam Lake
  • Losing 40 pounds
  • Assembling my TV cabinet
  • Asking a guy on a date
  • Eating rice with chop sticks (which I am still not good at)
  • Writing a novel
  • Completing a triathlon (although actually I was pretty confident in that one)
  • Moving away from my son
  • Taking on a new job with people I didn’t know
Triathlon
Triathlon

 

Favorites, Nature

Things I Miss About Living in the Country

  1. Thunderstorms rumbling through the valley
  2. How green everything is after a lightning storm
  3. Coyotes howling outside my window
  4. The wonder of Springtime, finding things growing you didn’t know were there
  5. Harvest-time, tractors in the field, clouds of dust
  6. Hay-rack rides
  7. Blinding brightness after an ice storm
  8. Evergreens bowing under heavy snow
  9. Bird song choirs that never cease
  10. Woodpeckers
  11. Walks in the woods
  12. Creeks skipping by
  13. Next door neighbors a mile away
  14. Hummingbirds at my window

    No special filters, no time lapse...just the sunlight through the trees - Cazenovia, Illinois 2006