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Category Archives: nature photography
My Dad, the Sea Hares, and Me
Father’s Day is a day I really miss my dad. He died on November 29, 2009, just a few days after I wrote the following, which was posted on my old blog at Xanga. Today, I woke up thinking about … Continue reading
Posted in blogging, Death, Earth, earth spirituality, memoir, nature, nature photography, nature writing, photography, reading, Uncategorized, writers, writing
Tagged California Sea Hare, Crystal Cove, diadem, father's day, fathers, green anemone, lionel trains, picnic on the beach, raw emotions, sea hares, tide pools, turban snail, wanderlust
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Fiber Artist Kathi Anderson on The Beauty Way
Yesterday, I began a series called The Beauty Way here on Smoky Talks …. I asked half a dozen friends of mine, each an artist in their own way, to read the Navajo poem, The Beauty Way, and talk about … Continue reading
Posted in blogging, Desert, earth spirituality, memoir, nature photography
Tagged Cholla, Gila Wilderness, Kathi Anderson, New Mexico, The Beauty Way
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Introducing The Beauty Way Series
Last year on “Smoky Talks …” I ran a series of guest posts called the Inspiration Series. In it, guest artists—musicians, writers, visual artists—wrote about what inspired them in their art and in their daily lives. The series was very … Continue reading
Posted in blogging, earth spirituality, inspiration, memoir, Native Americans, nature, nature photography, nature writing, recipes, Uncategorized
Tagged beauty way, Black Bears, Gopher Snakes, looking at life, Navajo, philosophy of life, Sequoia National Park, Smoky Zeidel, The Beauty Way, The Storyteller's Bracelet, Vanilla Heart Publishing, Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park
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The Healing Desert
Oh! That desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister, That I might all forget the human race, And hating no one, love but only her! … Continue reading
Down by the Sea
“Get out in the sunlight. Go down to the sea. Walk ’round in the forest. Be all that I can be.” My friend Susan penned that poem for me a few years ago. She wrote it on a little round … Continue reading
Bones
Last month, as we walked along Pebble Beach in Big Sur, enjoying the roar of waves crashing on shore and marveling at the abundance of wildlife on the beach, Scott made the most intriguing find in what I refer to … Continue reading
Posted in blogging, Death, environment, memoir, nature, nature photography, nature writing, Uncategorized
Tagged beachphoto, Big Sur, bleached bones, bones, Coyotes, death, elephant seal, elephant seals, georgia o keefe, Georgia O'Keefe, Joshua Tree National Park, marine biologists, Pebble Beach, Smoky Zeidel, vertebral bone
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We Went to the Mountains to Pray
We went to the mountains, up the Angeles Crest Highway to a peak far above the foggy marine layer blanketing the valleys below. We went to the mountains to pray. We went to the mountains to breathe in the floral … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, blogging, Current News, Earth, environment, environmental writing, memoir, nature photography, photography, Uncategorized, vegetarianism
Tagged Civil Disobedience, GMOs, Lupine, March Against Monsanto, March Against Monsanto Los Angeles, San Gabriel Mountains, Scott Zeidel, Smoky Zeidel, social activism, wallflower, yucca
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Bully Boy, Rufous, and Me
As those of you who have followed me over the years know well, and those of you who are new to this blog will soon learn, I’m a nature nut. There is a reason I’m known as the Earth Mage. … Continue reading
Snake Signs
We’ve been having a rough time here at the cottage recently. Creatively, I’ve been stymied. It isn’t that I don’t want to write, have writer’s block, or that I don’t know where I’m going with my newest Work in Progress … Continue reading
