Tag Archives: nature

Another Bad Investment

Posted on July 24, 2022 by hernibs

I can hear the logging truckloading logs next door.Quite a stack of cedarthey’ll get a good price for. But money will never compensatefor the oxygen, soil stability,shade, beauty, habitatthose trees provided. Wrong thinking thereto exchange all of thatfor paper printedto … Continue reading →

Posted in Living Simply | Tagged investment, logging, money, nature, tree killers, Trees | 2 Comments

Snow Duvet

Posted on January 9, 2022 by hernibs

I love the muffled quiet of snow all around me,like nestling under a down duvet. Icicles hang from the roof edge all the way around the house, beautiful.A gust of wind shakes diamond dust here and then over there. I’m … Continue reading →

Posted in Living Simply | Tagged Beauty, icicles, inspiration, nature, Peace, photograph, poem, winter | 5 Comments

Walking In The Woods

Posted on July 7, 2021 by hernibs

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,There is a rapture on the lonely shore,There is society, where none intrudes,By the deep sea, and music in its roar:I love not man the less, but Nature more.~Lord Byron

Posted in Living Simply | Tagged green, Lord Byron, nature, stump, woods | 2 Comments

Turkey Tail Fungi on Dogwood Tree

Posted on April 5, 2021 by hernibs

Posted in Living Simply | Tagged Dogwood tree, moss, nature, spring, turkey tail fungi, woods | 2 Comments

Dolce far niente – sweet idleness

Posted on April 2, 2021 by hernibs

Posted in Living Simply, Simplicity | Tagged bc, Beauty, happy place, idleness, inspiration, Life, nature, Peace, photograph, seeing, water | 2 Comments

A Natural Rock Garden

Posted on March 23, 2021 by hernibs

Posted in Living Simply, Simplicity | Tagged bc, Beauty, forest, garden, green, happy place, home, inspiration, Life, nature, Peace, photograph, seeing, woods | 3 Comments

From Log to Shakes – 4 photographs

Posted on March 7, 2021 by hernibs

This cedar log has been lying in our woods for over 50s years. His nibs cut a 20′ long piece and tractored it out of the woods. Hisnibs split the log into 4 sections and then, using a froe and … Continue reading →

Posted in Living Simply, Simplicity | Tagged bc, cedar, froe, inspiration, Life, log, mallet, nature, photograph, shakes, splitting shakes, survival, woods | 1 Comment

Just What I Wanted

Posted on March 6, 2021 by hernibs

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want. ~Ben Stein

Posted in Living Simply, Simplicity | Tagged art, bc, Beauty, Ben Stein, decide, forest, garden, inspiration, Life, nature, photograph, Quote, seeing, share, want, woods | 7 Comments

Questions

Posted on March 4, 2021 by hernibs

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer. ~Rainer Maria … Continue reading →

Posted in Living Simply, Simplicity | Tagged art, bc, Beauty, flowers, freedom, hope, inspiration, Life, nature, photograph, Quote, Rainer Maria Rilke, survival, thoughts | 2 Comments

Pebble Art – Fish Tales

Posted on March 2, 2021 by hernibs

I love these pebble fish happily floating in their aquarium amongst seashells and plants. The artist is a dear friend of ours and I wanted to share her creativity. Go take a look at her Etsy shop, she has more … Continue reading →

Posted in Living Simply, Simplicity | Tagged art, Beauty, fish, inspiration, Life, nature, pebbles, photograph, sea, seashells, water | 2 Comments

Compassion

Posted on February 28, 2021 by hernibs

Like honesty, compassion may be expressed through verbal means but its basic form of communication is silence. ~ Clark E. Moustakas

Posted in Living Simply, Simplicity | Tagged bc, Beauty, Clark E. Moustakas, communication, compassion, forest, freedom, heart, honesty, hope, inspiration, Life, nature, photograph, Quote, remember, share, silence, survival, thoughts, words | 2 Comments

World View

Posted on February 25, 2021 by hernibs

Thanks to art, instead of seeing a single world, our own, we see it multiply until we have before us as many worlds as there are original artists. ~ Marcel Proust

Posted in Living Simply, Simplicity | Tagged art, artist, Beauty, flowers, freedom, hope, inspiration, Life, Marcel Proust, nature, original, photograph, Quote, seeing, thoughts, world view | Leave a comment

Figuring Life Out

Posted on February 23, 2021 by hernibs

You look at where you’re going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you’ve been and a pattern seems to emerge. ~Robert M. Pirsig

Posted in Living Simply, Simplicity | Tagged art, bc, Beauty, inspiration, Life, nature, pattern, photograph, Quote, Robert M. Pirsig, survival, thoughts, water | 1 Comment

A Lovely Stick

Posted on February 20, 2021 by hernibs

Posted in Living Simply, Simplicity | Tagged art, bc, Beauty, cedar, craft, driftwood, freedom, inspiration, nature, photograph, stick, treasure | 2 Comments

Mocha Helping With The Puzzle

Posted on February 18, 2021 by hernibs

Posted in Living Simply, Simplicity | Tagged art, cat, happy place, helping, home, inspiration, Life, Mocha, nature, photograph, puzzle, seeing | 1 Comment