Tag Archives: nature

Outside We Live

Posted on August 21, 2020 by anotetohuguette

“What humanity needs, nature answers in whispers.” – Numi Tea CITY There’s a Summer Art Program being presented downtown twice a week – two beautiful parklets are now home to artists and students displaying works in progress to potential customers … Continue reading →

Posted in blog, journaling, life, memoir, photography | Tagged art, beach, beauty, city, coyote, festival, forest, gastronomy, joy, nature, outside, reverie, Summer, sun halo, wilding | 47 Comments

Collateral Beauty

Posted on August 1, 2020 by anotetohuguette

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add colour to my sunset sky.” – Rabindranath Tagore Solo walks this mid-summer have taken on a different hue – our provincial government recently … Continue reading →

Posted in blog, journaling, memoir, photography | Tagged bliss, collateral beauty, courage, Covid-19, freedom, Great Blue Herons, life, mid-summer, nature, new normal, outside, rewilding, solo walks, sunset skies, tea, travel | 51 Comments

Every Little Thing Is Everything

Posted on June 26, 2020 by anotetohuguette

“Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world.” – T’ien Yi Leng I woke up this morning with new energy and resolve – hoping to shake up the routines I’ve clung to these past few months and invite some … Continue reading →

Posted in blog, journaling, life, memoir, photography | Tagged botanical, Covid-19, decorating, foraging, forest, hush, nature, park, picnics, rhythm, solstice, stillness, tea, thunder, time | 51 Comments

Fewer Faces and Bigger Spaces

Posted on May 29, 2020 by anotetohuguette

“Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.” – Rumi Most of my solo walks are heavenly – there are often small paths and walkways leading to lush gardens and on todays’ … Continue reading →

Posted in blog, journaling, life, memoir, photography | Tagged beauty, Covid-19, fewer faces and bigger spaces, fragrance, garden, joy, meditation, Monet, nature, painting, pandemic, solo walks, spring to summer, staycation, zen | 47 Comments

Broken Clouds

Posted on April 4, 2020 by anotetohuguette

“Not All Storms Come To Disrupt Your Life…Some Come To Clear Your Path – Goalcast New windows have been installed in our apartment rental and on rainy evenings I’ve noticed a different rhythm, a staccato beat as the drops strike … Continue reading →

Posted in blog, journaling, life, memoir, photography, travel | Tagged Covid-19, forest, homesteading, hope, hunkering down, journey, love, nature, ocean, pandemic, pathways, prayer, recipes, retreat, sanctuary | 77 Comments

Shard

Posted on February 20, 2020 by anotetohuguette

A piece of the world fell today in the form of an ink-black crow, falling swiftly upon a city grate its voice silenced forever. Other pieces fall in the form of fire supplanting summer’s eternal beauty, fall in the form of … Continue reading →

Posted in blog, photography, poetry, travel | Tagged beauty, change, city, crow, humanity, London, loss, nature, pieces, Shard, silence, time, urgency, winter, world | 47 Comments

Unravelling

Posted on September 5, 2019 by anotetohuguette

“ We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer’s wreckage. We will welcome summer’s ghost.” – Henry Rollins It was on the news again, a reminder that these high summer nights were the best … Continue reading →

Posted in blog, journaling, life, memoir, photography, travel | Tagged awe, balance, dark sky, ghosts, healing, high summer, hope, miracle, mystical, nature, Perseids meteor shower, September, sparkle, unravelling, wreckage | 27 Comments

The Hunt

Posted on July 25, 2019 by anotetohuguette

“ No matter what you write, you actually can’t help retelling a fairy tale somewhere along the way.” – Catheryanne M. Valente There is still a scent of jasmine and mint in the air and I’ve just slipped into my … Continue reading →

Posted in blog, journaling, life, memoir, photography, travel | Tagged beauty, bucolic, cafes, fairy tale, family, forest, journey, July musings, love, nature, outside, searching, Summer, the hunt, writing | 28 Comments

We Can Do Better

Posted on April 15, 2019 by anotetohuguette

“Music comes from an icicle as it melts, to live again as spring water.” – Henry Williamson If the pale pink blossoms of the tulip trees and the dark purple crocuses weren’t already announcing the arrival of spring, then the … Continue reading →

Posted in blog, journaling, life, memoir, photography, travel | Tagged art, books, fragrance, ink, joy, love, Monet to Matisse, music, musings, nature, outside, rugby, Spring, wandering, writing | 44 Comments

Deep Winter

Posted on February 14, 2019 by anotetohuguette

“ The mind is not a vessel that needs filling but wood that needs igniting.” – Plutarch – On Listening Snow hasn’t quite fallen yet but the scents of winter make an appearance in both my mother’s kitchen and mine … Continue reading →

Posted in blog, journaling, life, memoir, photography, travel | Tagged art, chickadees, deep winter, enchantment, fashion, flowers, Guo Pei, magic, nature, raven, scent, spell, spices, Vancouver Art Gallery, wonder | 51 Comments

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