By: Pamela Leavey On: January 20, 2012 at 12:58 pm
It’s a beautiful day here on the river…
As I sit here at my desk, to my left I see the river sparkling with a fervent, intensely brilliant reflection of the sun. Not a cloud in the sky, with my desk facing south, the sun sits at 11:23 outside of my window.
To the right of my desk, outside of the bay window in which my desk sits, I watch as the ice floes float down stream, creating ever changing patterns.
Housebound as I am for a few more days, I am re-minded every day how blessed I am to live here on the river with my slivers of river views that constantly fill my heart and soul with love and gratitude.
The mighty Merrimack River is rooted in my body, mind and soul. As a small child I grew up along the river in West Newbury. At eleven, we moved to Newburyport and short walk to the Chain Bridge area.
It was one year after moving back to this area (a little over 3 years ago) when I realized that more than anything in this breathtakingly beautiful estuary, abundant in Mother Nature’s gifts, it was the river that most spoke to me.
She lifts me up, she carries me in her bouyant arms, like the mother and she lets my heart and soul float in her love.
(Photo: Winter On The Merrimack River ~~ c. Pamela J. Leavey 2012)
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By: Pamela Leavey On: January 19, 2012 at 1:57 pm
Trees in winter, stripped bare of their foliage often offer a view worthy of the interpretation of an artist’s eye:
While driving along the river the other day with my hiking partner, I noticed this Bird In A Tree.
As I continue to work through my photos and edit them, I plan to create an album of Mother Nature’s Art Work as exhibited in the bare trees.
(Photo: Bird In A Tree ~~ c. Pamela J. Leavey 2012)
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By: Pamela Leavey On: January 18, 2012 at 10:24 pm
My heart beats wildly
In the arms of Mother Nature…
And I could dance with abandon
Like the bare trees in winter…
I am so in love
With the Great Mother Goddess…
(Dancing Tree Woman ~ c. Pamela J. Leavey 2012)
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By: Pamela Leavey On: April 1, 2011 at 12:35 pm
Mother Nature played a joke on most of New England today: Snow.
I was hoping that we’d be spared here near the mouth of the Merrimack River and only have rain. No such luck. I went outside last night briefly at about 11:00 pm and there was a light blanket of snow on the ground. At 7:00 am I awoke to a power outage. With all the snow storms we had all winter, there was not one outage. Now it happens. Thankfully the power was back on within a couple of hours.
Tomorrow we should see some sun and warmer temperatures here on the river while we’re waiting for spring. We need more lovely days like this for the trees to start budding and the spring flowers to burst out of their winter cover and shine in the sun:
(Photo: Seagulls at Joppa Flats in Newburyport, MA, March 2011 ~~ © Pamela J. Leavey 2011)
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By: Pamela Leavey On: March 1, 2009 at 5:54 pm
I wish the sky had looked like this today:
It was grey and stormy instead. More snow on it’s way. I’ve heard it’s been a rough winter here in Eastport this year. I think Mother Nature decided to break me in hard and fast for my first winter here. If I can make it through this one, the other winters here to follow won’t seem so bad.
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