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“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Right now those colors are particularly fabulous!
What’s your favorite color in nature?
This is a daily journal of my efforts to cultivate a more simple life, through local eating, gardening and so many other things. We used to live in a small suburban neighborhood Ohio but moved to 153 acres in Liberty, Maine in 2012.
I must admit I get really annoyed this time of year by political ads in the mailbox, signs on every...
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Beautiful photos Suzy! Question.. where is that lake and can I kayak on it?? Please don’t say Maine… : )
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The one in the top photo is Walden Pond (yep Thoreau’s) and the one in the bottom photo is Jordan Pond in Acadia (which there were people kayaking in when we were hiking around it). Sorry :(
Anytime you want to come visit us we live on a lake that you can kayak in, sadly our kayaks aren’t in the lake as much as we’d like them to be.
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fall colors are my absolute favorite:) our leaves are almost gone, but we just got back from gatlinburg & it was perfect there!
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Now I can say I have been to Walden Pond, very cool! Enjoyed the fall colors.
I’m with you on the politic ads. I voted early nearly two weeks ago, get it over with.
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Beautiful! And love Emerson and Thoreau’s Walden is my favorite book. Great post.
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