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The wilderness
The trees
my buttresses
Hay bales
my statuary
Flowers
my stained glass
A babbling brook
my organ
Frogs and toads
my choir
Fields of wildflowers
my incense
Thunder storms
my high mass
A very diverse congregation…
From cows
to snails and turtles
to gazillions
Deer sometimes come round
Butterflies abound
Moths, too
Birds of every hue
All that’s missing is you
but you worship your own way
doing charity every day
more than I can say
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August 28, 2021 | Categories: Animal & Landscape Photographs , Animal Columns & Poems , Bipolar art , Macro Photography , Meditation , Music of Nature , Nature Photography , Spirituality , Uncategorized | Tags: Bipolar Disorder , Landscape Photography , Nature photography , Poetry , Spirituality | 3 Comments
An informal art show of photographs and photographs of original paintings before they go as a donation hopefully.
July 31, 2021 | Categories: Abstract Paintings , Abstract Photography , Abstract watercolors , Animal & Landscape Photographs , Black and White Photography , Landscape paintings , Light Photography , Nature Photography , Paintings | Tags: Abstract Photography , Exhibitions , Landscape Photography , Light Photography , Nature photography , Paintings | 4 Comments
April 3, 2018 | Categories: Animal & Landscape Photographs , Black and White Photography , Cityscapes , Life in New York City , Nature Photography , Uncategorized | Tags: Black and White Photography , Cityscapes , Landscapes , Millbrook NY , Nature photography , New York City , Snow | 15 Comments
Christmas and Winter Solstice blessings to all those who have visited Moonside and especially to those to whom I was unable to respond due to physical or mental illness, a HUGE THANK YOU!!
And to all… may you feel the joy of Christmas no matter what your circumstance, color, creed or faith and be blessed by health, happiness and peace in the New Year!
Love, Ellen
December 20, 2016 | Categories: Animal & Landscape Photographs , Black and White Photography , Christmas and Hanukkah , Nature Photography , Spirituality , Uncategorized | Tags: Christmas , Gratitude , Hanukkah , Ice , Landscapes , Macro Photography , Nature , Nature photography , New Year , Snow , Spirituality in art , Thank You , Winter , Winter Solstice | 7 Comments
A lone fir tree
stands stalwart in a forest of red
watching over the turtles sleeping peacefully
in their hibernaculum
in the icy pond
as God
watches over us
A silent night of peace to each of you
and a berry, merry Christmas!
Love always,
Ellen
December 24, 2014 | Categories: Animal & Landscape Photographs , Christmas and Hanukkah , Nature Photography , Poetry | Tags: Berries , Christmas , Fir Trees , God in Nature , Landscape Photography , Lone Fir Tree , Merry Christmas wishes , Nature photography , Turtles in hibernaculum | 38 Comments
White birch
December 13, 2014 | Categories: Animal & Landscape Photographs , Nature Photography , Uncategorized | Tags: Abstract Photography , Nature photography , Reflections , Snow , White Birches , Winter , Without a muse , Woods in Snow | 19 Comments
VIDEO
October 3, 2014 | Categories: Macro Photography , Meditations , Mooji , Nature Columns , Videos | Tags: Awareness , Intrusive thoughts , Macro Photography , Meditation , Nature photography , Negative thoughts , Power of mind , Thoughts during meditation , Unwanted thoughts | 5 Comments
“Dear ones, the light of God is moving through me this day… I am in His sea of Light, in that eternal land. Wherever I am, in this life or beyond, I am always roaming in that eternity. I want you to come there also, for you are my brothers an sisters and I cannot bear to see you left in delusion.”
Paramahansa Yogananda
June 26, 2014 | Categories: Abstract Photography , Flowers , Nature Photography , Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes , Spirituality , Uncategorized | Tags: Bliss , Flower photography , Flowers , God in Nature , Light , Macro Photography , Nature photography , Paramahansa Yogananda , Quotes , Self-Realization Fellowship , Spirituality | 4 Comments
After the crash
from
mania
to
depression…
humility
shame
gratitude
grace
June 18, 2014 | Categories: Bipolar Disorder , Depression and Mania , Flowers , Nature Photography , Poetry , Spirituality | Tags: Artist websites , Bipolar Disorder , Crash , Flower photography , Flowers , Humility , Lilies of the Valley , Mania and Depression , Nature photography , Transitions | 9 Comments
VIDEO
April 9, 2014 | Categories: Animal & Landscape Photographs , Music & Thoughts , Nature Photography | Tags: "Lady Day" , "Willow Weep for Me" , Billie Holiday , Jazz , Landscape Photography , Nature photography , Trees , Weeping Willows , YouTube | 8 Comments
Sap a flowin’
Ice a goin’
Frogs a croakin’
April 7, 2014 | Categories: Animal & Landscape Photographs , Music of Nature , Nature Photography | Tags: Frogs , Ice , Landscape Photography , Marshes , Melting ice , Nature photography , Rites of Spring , Sap , Spring , Spring colors , Turtles , Wetlands , Wilderness preservation , Wood frogs | 14 Comments
VIDEO
A tribute to my beloved brother, Tony, who loved this song.
March 26, 2014 | Categories: Animal & Landscape Photographs , Nature Photography , Spirituality , Videos | Tags: "All my Life's a Circle" , Beaver dams , Bontecou Lake , Circles , Deer , Harry Chapin , Ice , Lakes , Landscape Photography , March , Marshes , Millbrook NY , Nature photography , Seasons , Snow , Swamps , Trees , Wildlife Photography | 6 Comments
Winter is weary
and we are wary
of forecasts
of yet more snow
and ice to come
March 7, 2014 | Categories: Animal & Landscape Photographs , Macro Photography , Nature Photography , Poetry | Tags: Ice , Macro Photography , Marsh , Nature photography , Seasons , Snow , Weeds , Winter | 10 Comments
Sky
instead of water lilies
no words, clouded mind
March 2, 2014 | Categories: Abstract Photography , Animal & Landscape Photographs , Depression and Mania , Nature Photography , Poetry | Tags: Abstract Photography , Brain Fog , Clouds , Nature photography , Sky | 10 Comments
February 11, 2014 | Categories: Animal & Landscape Photographs , Mood Photographs , Nature Photography | Tags: Clouded vision , Illness , Lack of inspiration , Landscape Photography , Mood Photography , Nature photography , Without a muse | 26 Comments
“Sound and light affect our consciousness, for we (like them) are composed of vibrations.”
Paramahansa Yogananda
Beware the enticements of worldliness
lest it lead you to the frazzle of despair.
Look behind the Light of nature,
and let the eyes be
bedazzled by the Beauty
of God hiding there.
January 8, 2014 | Categories: Abstract Photography , Light Photography , Meditations , Nature Photography , Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes | Tags: Despair , God in Nature , Light , Light in Art , Light in Photography , Nature photography , Paramahansa Yogananda , Spirituality , Sunlight , Worldliness | 18 Comments
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January trees
please and tease
their feather-arms
tickle the skies
gratify the eyes
their lattice work branches
the soft, silky brush strokes
of a winter masterpiece
January 6, 2014 | Categories: Animal & Landscape Photographs , Mood Photographs , Nature Photography , Poetry | Tags: Art , Brush strokes , Feathers , Fog , Lines in nature , Nature photography , Tree branches , Trees , Trees in Winter , Winter , Winter art , Winter tree branches | 11 Comments
Here one second,
the next, gone,
with traces only in our hearts.
The ephemeral nature
of all life.
Our loved ones,
people and creatures,
here with us
for a pause in eternity
and gone for seeming eons.
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It is as the Hindus say
all “Maya,”
a dream of life,
an apparition,
some form of us
awakens one day
somewhere
we know not
when or where or how
right now.
December 4, 2013 | Categories: Animal & Landscape Photographs , Loss , Meditations , Nature Photography , Poetry | Tags: Animal Photography , Apparitions , Death , Diptych Photography , Diptychs , Dream of Life , Dreams , Ephermal nature of life , Hindu religion , Hinduism , Landscape Photography , Life , Life after death , Life Cycles , loss , Maya , Meditations , Nature photography | 11 Comments
(One of my “Free Associations”, a series 14 diptychs and triptychs)
December 2, 2013 | Categories: Animal & Landscape Photographs , Nature Photography | Tags: Cloud formations , Clouds , Diptychs , Free associations , God in Nature , Heavens , Light effects , Nature photography , Sky , Sky photography , Spirituality , Sunsets | 8 Comments
Ilness has stolen my words and clouded my vision, but not killed my hope that a new diagnosis and treatment will fix what has been broken a long time. Hope to be back to regular reading of favorite blogs, commenting and writing posts soon.
MOONSIDE 
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