Snow day!

        
           

Being

Today's question: How do you picture a day spent "being"--as opposed to "doing"?

 

Photographer's Journal: Camp Hardtner

     
      

Invitation to Stop

And I did. And took in the emerald water, the green grass, the golden brown of last summer's grass-like plant, and the balmy breeze coming across the lake. 

For Lent this year, I am following an online series by the Brothers of Saint John the Divine. It is about our relationship with time, which was the first thing in creation God called "holy." 

It has not been a surprise to me to learn already that my own relationship with time is pretty disordered.

Yesterday's lesson was about invitations to stop during the day. For the brothers, the monastery bells invite them to stop what they are doing for prayer four times a day. 

Scenes like the one above are my monastery bells. They are invitations from the universe to stop for a moment, drink in the beauty, give thanks. That I do so with a camera makes it no less prayer.
        

Camp Hardtner

    
    

Perfect Peace

Home from Happening 53! What a blessed experience in a beautiful place with some fine young people. The Spirit was with us.
   

Wildflowers: Arkansas

              
                

Blue Sage (Salvia azurea)

In October, I attended the Arkansas Native Plant Society annual meeting in Texarkana. One of our hikes was in the White Cliffs Natural Area of western Arkansas. It is situated on a large outcropping of chalk that overlooks the Little River and gives the area its name. We saw many interesting plant species. It was October, so only a few things were still blooming; this lovely little blue flower was surely one of the prettiest!
      

on a large outcrop of Annona Chalk, rising out of the Little River floodplain (now Millwood Lake) and includes a 100-foot high chalk bluff over the Little River, from which the area derives its name. - See more at: http://www.naturalheritage.com/natural-area/white-cliffs/#sthash.CLUb4sD0.dpuf

on a large outcrop of Annona Chalk, rising out of the Little River floodplain (now Millwood Lake) and includes a 100-foot high chalk bluff over the Little River, from which the area derives its name. - See more at: http://www.naturalheritage.com/natural-area/white-cliffs/#sthash.CLUb4sD0.dpuf

on a large outcrop of Annona Chalk, rising out of the Little River floodplain (now Millwood Lake) and includes a 100-foot high chalk bluff over the Little River, from which the area derives its name. - See more at: http://www.naturalheritage.com/natural-area/white-cliffs/#sthash.CLUb4sD0.dpuf

on a large outcrop of Annona Chalk, rising out of the Little River floodplain (now Millwood Lake) and includes a 100-foot high chalk bluff over the Little River, from which the area derives its name. - See more at: http://www.naturalheritage.com/natural-area/white-cliffs/#sthash.CLUb4sD0.dpuf