All posts by Froggie

I bought a cabin

November 11, 2018Cabin Home, Uncategorizedcabin, cabin life, cabin living, Colorado, Facebook Marketplace, Froggey, Froggie, Hesperus, Off the Grid, Scenes from Lilypad, Solar EnergyFroggie

I recently bought a cabin in Hesperus, Colorado. I love it thus far. I intend on making upgrades to it, including meditation gardens. I will be documenting the changes here on my blog. I’m a green thumb and am super excited about the greenhouse. I also don’t mind the sauna and jacuzzi.

Oh! I also have a big huge pond! Pics of that coming.

I purchased all of the internal furniture on Facebook Marketplace for $2,630. Including a baby grand Wang Chung.

I will be bringing in solar panels to provide energy source for both home and pond.

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The Road Less Traveled

November 4, 2018froggey, From the Lilypad, landscape photography, nature, photography, poetry, Scenes from the Lilypadfog, pacific northwest, pnw, treesFroggie

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Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. ~Robert Frost

Meditation

November 4, 2018froggey, froggie, landscape photography, nature, Photos, poetry, Scenes from the Lilypadlandscape photography, nature, nature scenes, pnw, Ralph Marston, scenes from the lilypad, trees, What a Wonderful WorldFroggie

When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing – just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park? ~Ralph Marston

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Misty Rose

November 4, 2018landscape photography, photo, photography, Photos, poetry, Scenes from the LilypadAnais Nin, floral, flowers, Froggey, froggey.wordpress.com, poetry, rose, Scenes from Lilypad, UtahFroggie

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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~Anais Nin

After the Storm

July 27, 2018landscape photography, nature, Scenes from the Lilypaddesert storms, fishing, fly fishing, Froggey, froggey.wordpress.com, Froggie, mumford & Sons, New Mexico, river, san juan river, storms, troutFroggie

And after the storm,
I run and run as the rains come
And I look up, I look up,
On my knees and out of luck,
I look up.

Night has always pushed up day
You must know life to see decay
But I won’t rot, I won’t rot
Not this mind and not this heart,
I won’t rot.

And I took you by the hand
And we stood tall,
And remembered our own land,
What we lived for.

But there will come a time, you’ll see, with no more tears.
And love will not break your heart, but dismiss your fears.
Get over your hill and see what you find there,
With grace in your heart and flowers in your hair.

And now I cling to what I knew
I saw exactly what was true
But oh no more.
That’s why I hold,
That’s why I hold with all I have.
That’s why I hold.

I won’t die alone and be left there.

Well I guess I’ll just go home,
Oh God knows where.
Because death is just so full and man so small.
Well I’m scared of what’s behind and what’s before.

And there will come a time, you’ll see, with no more tears.
And love will not break your heart, but dismiss your fears.

Get over your hill and see what you find there,
With grace in your heart and flowers in your hair.

And there will come a time, you’ll see, with no more tears.
And love will not break your heart, but dismiss your fears.
Get over your hill and see what you find there,
With grace in your heart and flowers in your hair. (Mumford & Sons)

Flowing Water

“Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad

Bird on a Barbed Wire

April 16, 2018baby animals, From the Lilypad, landscape photography, nature, photographyantelope island, barbed wire, bird on a wire, birds, Leonard Cohen, scenery, UtahFroggie

“Like a bird on a wire,
like a drunk in a midnight choir,
I have tried in my way to be free!!”

~Leonard Cohen

Gilgal Gardens

April 2, 2018From the Lilypad, landscape photography, photography, religion, Scenes from the Lilypad, Uncategorizedaltar, gardens, Gilgal Gardens, Joseph Smith, LDS, mormon, parks, sacrifice, sights, SLC, sphinx, Thomas Battersby Child, UtahFroggie

http://gilgalgarden.org/

What an adventure hidden near downtown SLC! You have to know what you are looking for to find it. I have seen lots of photos of the sculptures in this garden but was fascinated by the scriptures, songs, poems, etc etched in stone around the sculptures. They more completely tell the story of how the sculptures came to be, and the thought processes by Child (the creator) that contributed to his faith/spiritual journey. It is one eclectic Mormon journey. It isn’t every block that reveals a Joseph Smith sphinx. I loved the symbolism of stars (aka Masonic symboism).

Child named the garden Gilgal after the Biblical location where Joshua ordered the Israelistes to place twelve stones as a memorial. The name ‘Gilgal’ is sometimes translate to mean ‘circle of standing stones,’ an appropriate appellation for a sculpture garden. Gilgal is also the name of a city and a valley in The Book of Mormon, a sacred scripture in Mormonism.

Because I am a rock lover and a storyteller, I’m including a lot of these stone verses that enhance the meaning behind the actual sculptures.

Loveland Living Planet Aquarium – Draper, Utah

March 26, 2018froggie, landscape photography, nature, photography, Scenes from the Lilypad, zooDraper, fish, leopard, Living Planet Aquarium, Loveland Aquarium, Utah, zooFroggie

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. ~William Shakespeare

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What a Wonderful World

March 1, 2018froggey, From the Lilypad, landscape photography, nature, photography, Scenes from the Lilypad, UncategorizedFroggie, Louis Armstrong, nature scenes, Scenes from Lilypad, What a Wonderful WorldFroggie

I’ve compiled a brief slideshow of some of my favorite photos. I hope you will enjoy them. Sometimes in this world reminders are needed that life can truly be an amazing experience.

What a Wonderful World