Hiatus

I'm going to be taking a little blogging hiatus... If any of my regular Sunday Strollers would like to take over hosting the event for a while, I'd love that. Please comment here or email me to let me know.

There is just so much going on in my life away from the computer... including my own schooling and helping my daughter get ready to go away to a university in another state... among other things. I will try to pop in and read your blogs when I can and may occasionally post a little update.

Where ever you are, whatever the weather... I wish you peace.

Sunday Stroll Invitation

"The mere thought of walking outdoors
on a brilliant golden-blue day
causes fire-works of delight to go off
in most people’s psyche.
It gives one an instant feeling of happiness
and that is meditation!"
Karen Zebroff

If you have time this week for a Sunday Stroll, please post about it on your blog and then come back here with a comment letting me know that you are joining in, and please include a link to your post. You may use the Sunday Stroll button at the top of this post on your post or sidebar if you would like. I will add participant names to this post so that other strollers may walk through your garden too. I'll check back as often as my day allows and try to keep the list updated. Enjoy the day!

Look who is strolling today:
Margaret at Periodic Pearls
Jena at Married to the Farm

Sunday Stroll Invitation

The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses.
~Hanna Rion

If you have time this week for a Sunday Stroll, please post about it on your blog and then come back here with a comment letting me know that you are joining in, and please include a link to your post. You may use the Sunday Stroll button at the top of this post on your post or sidebar if you would like. I will add participant names to this post so that other strollers may walk through your garden too. I'll check back as often as my day allows and try to keep the list updated. Enjoy the day!

Look who is strolling today:
Cloudhands at Uncarved Block
Pom Pom at Pom Pom's Ponderings
Jena at Married to the Farm

Just a note: I have been having internet connection problems today, so I apologize for the slow interaction. :)

Sunday Stroll - Evening Light

The garden is in full bloom right now,
and filled with friendly little faces,

but the soft light spilling through the clouds
and down onto the meadows,
lured me from the garden,

Deer were nibbling leaf shoots in the neighbor's field,

and a little boat was moving slowly
across a very quiet lake.

Three of my children ran on ahead of me,
sparkling in the evening light.

And leaving footprints in the sandy lane.
I walked slowly behind... listening to the birds,
and the easy wind,
and my children's voices floating back down the road toward me.

Where ever you are, whatever the weather,
I wish you peace and good company.

Sunday Stroll Invitation

Each moment of the year has its own beauty . . .
a picture which was never before and shall never be seen again.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you have time this week for a Sunday Stroll, please post about it on your blog and then come back here with a comment letting me know that you are joining in, and please include a link to your post. You may use the Sunday Stroll button at the top of this post on your post or sidebar if you would like. I will add participant names to this post so that other strollers may walk through your garden too. I'll check back as often as my day allows and try to keep the list updated. Enjoy the day!

Look who's strolling:
Abbie at Farmer's Daughter
Linda at Vulture Peak Muse
Margaret at Periodic Pearls
Cindy at The Whirling Dervish
Cloudhands at Uncarved Block
Marcia at Child in Harmony

Sunday Stroll - Wings

On a Sunday afternoon in June,
when wild roses scent the air,
vibrant life is everywhere.

Dangling from blossoms,
or warming on slate,
some busy working...

While others simply wait.

Where ever you are, whatever the weather, I wish you serenity.


all photos and text by Aisling, June 13, 2010

1 & 2) baby sun coreopsis 3) elm leaf beetle 4) crater lake blue veronica 5) honeybee on butterfly blue pincushion flower 6) honeybee and coral bells (huechera) 7) canterbury bells, aka blue rain flower 8)eastern bluet damselfly 9) female whitetail dragonfly 10) mail whitetail dragonfly 11) unidentified dragonfly (working on it!) 11) male and female whitetail dragonflies 12) stella d'oro day lily

Sunday Stroll Invitation

Nature will bear the closest inspection.
She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf,
and take an insect view of its plain.
~ Henry David Thoreau

If you have time this week for a Sunday Stroll, please post about it on your blog and then come back here with a comment letting me know that you are joining in, and please include a link to your post. You may use the Sunday Stroll button at the top of this post on your post or sidebar if you would like. I will add participant names to this post so that other strollers may walk through your garden too. I'll check back as often as my day allows and try to keep the list updated. Enjoy the day!

Look who is strolling today:
Rebecca at Scene in Our Garden
Cloudhands at Uncarved Block
Marcia at Child in Harmony
Me, here at the Quiet Country House

Sunday Stroll - Water Colors

After the three days of rain, I went out to walk through a world
sweetly painted with water colors.

Where ever you are, whatever the weather, I wish you color and light.


all photos by Aisling, June 6, 2010

Sunday Stroll Invitation

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone,
that we are more deeply inserted into existence
than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
~John Berger, The Sense of Sight, 1980

If you have time this week for a Sunday Stroll, please post about it on your blog and then come back here with a comment letting me know that you are joining in, and please include a link to your post. You may use the Sunday Stroll button at the top of this post on your post or sidebar if you would like. I will add participant names to this post so that other strollers may walk through your garden too. I'll check back as often as my day allows and try to keep the list updated. Enjoy the day!

Look who's strolling today:
Linda at Crafty Gardener
Marcia at Child in Harmony
Me, here at the Quiet Country House
Margaret at Periodic Pearls

Sunday Stroll - Parade

Where ever you are, whatever the weather, I wish you peace.

Sunday Stroll Invitation

"People from a planet without flowers would think
we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us."
~ Iris Murdoch

If you have time this week for a Sunday Stroll, please post about it on your blog and then come back here with a comment letting me know that you are joining in, and please include a link to your post. You may use the Sunday Stroll button at the top of this post on your post or sidebar if you would like. I will add participant names to this post so that other strollers may walk through your garden too. I'll check back as often as my day allows and try to keep the list updated. Enjoy the day!

Look who's strolling today:
Margaret at Periodic Pearls
Marcia at Child in Harmony
Cloudhands at Uncarved Block
Me, here at the Quiet Country House

Sunday Stroll - Hopeful Birch

I wandered the quiet trails at camp this afternoon,
listening to bird song and wind rustling through the fresh leaves of mid-spring. In the birch woods, some ferns were open, while others were just unfurling...

In the open fields beyond the birch wood, there were things to see

above my head and below my feet.

Even returning home we found beautiful vistas.
These white tail deer watched us approach on the dusty lane.

while the sun settled into the lake with a splash of glowing light.

Where ever you are, whatever the weather, I wish you beautiful light.


all photos by Aisling, except photos of deer taken by Limerick through the car window
May 23, 2010