Super Moon
Sunday Night, December 3 As most of you know the super moon was beautiful on Sunday night. Ours did not have special markings on it, those are branches from our woodlot. God’s creation is truly amazing.
Category: Nature
Road Trip – Part 18 – The Lake
Monday, April 13 to Friday, April 17 This is Bob and Doris’ back yard. It is unusual to not see or hear water fowl during this time of year. Bulrushes that survived the cold winter. There were many red-winged blackbirds who perched on them and did everything they could to get my attention with their noisy song. […]
Afternoon Visit With Mother & A Beautiful Sunset
Tuesday, November 25 Today I knew which entrance to use when visiting Mother in Oregon House at Landis Homes. I didn’t need the ambulance to show me which door to enter. 🙂 We like the sign that the nurses made for her – attached to the wardrobe in her room. Cerwin’s brother, Elvin, and sister Velda […]
Sunrise
On this day the sun made a dramatic entrance announcing the birth of a brand new day giving us hope for a day filled with love and joy and peace.
Playing With The Sun & Leaves At Sunset
Sunday Evening, November 9 The first two were not taken directly toward the sun – just using the sun. I had fun trying to get several pictures using the sunset as a background. I like this one.
October Nature
I went through photos from October – before we delivered the chapel to Pass Lake – and gathered a potpourri of shots for tonight’s post. ~~~ Wednesday Evening, October 8 A pretty sunset The blood moon was beautiful in the night sky. ~~~ Thursday, October 9 Evening sky When walking toward the house from the previous […]
Fog ~ Dirt ~ Fall Sunset
The last few days of September. A foggy, fall morning. Cerwin ordered a load of topsoil to fill in a low area in our yard. Then he borrowed my brothers’ skid loader to level it. ~~~ It was not enough, so he ordered a partial load the next day. Then it rained, then he was […]
I Want To Be LIke This Corn Stalk
Each time I drive by this single corn stalk in the field near our house, I think… I want to be like this corn stalk. I want to be strong enough in my faith in God to stand strong – and alone if necessary. I want to trust God when the news is frightening. Because He said I should. […]
Mornings
September 23, 24, & 26 The early morning shadows captured my attention on Tuesday, September 23. The next day Cerwin was up early to take Jesse and Jared to the All Pro Dad breakfast at their grade school. They arrived early. Cerwin took pictures with his cell phone. Jere was on a business trip and asked Cerwin […]
Sam’s Orchard
Sunday Morning, September 21 I made sure I had time to walk through Sam Rittenhouse’s orchard and garden following breakfast on Sunday morning. Sam and Cerwin visited while I walked among the trees and flowers to enjoy the early fall beauty. Sam could tell you the name and variety of every flower, berry, apple, pear, fig, and […]
Beauty & The Beast ~ Our First Day In Maine
Thursday, August 28 I am going too begin with the “beast” ~ Hezekiah’s 1981 Chevy Malibu. 🙂 This is the floor board – or lack thereof ~ as you look at he ground below. Heze and his friend Wil spent three days installing flooring and working on other things to get it ready to run. […]
Morning to Evening
I enjoyed an early morning walk around our yard a few days ago and thought you might like to see what I discovered. I found a few dew-covered spider webs. My first tomato is growing nicely. It looks like we will have more tomatoes this summer. Our ferns are full and beautiful. Daylilies in the morning sun. […]
I Love The Flowers And Things Of Summertime
I enjoy taking time ~ at least once a day ~ to walk around our yard to see what is blooming. Daylilies are still pretty. Crown vetch blooms are covering the bank to our north west. I can smell the honeysuckle as I approach the blooms. I don’t know what this is, but it looks […]
Flowers
Truck Rally is over and I have time to examine the flowers in our yard again. The daisies got to full bloom almost without my notice. Daylilies are also adding their own beauty to our yard. Hosta flowers are short-lived and pretty. I love the challenge and busyness of Truck Rally, but am glad to return […]
Rain & Sunshine ~ Flowers & Birds
Photos taken from June 12 to 18. A beautiful, rainy morning. I love summer rain. Yarrow Summer sunshine is just as nice ~ especially when it highlights our flowers. Yarrow We even have a garden this year – one tomato plant. 🙂 It is looking healthy and is starting to bloom. Our mint tea bed died last […]
Sunset
Saturday evening, May 31 This is what we saw on the way home from Roy and Deb’s house after supper at RD’s and visiting them and their rescued animals. No words needed. Enjoy the ride.
Springtime In Our Yard
Spring is usually the only time of year I see a rose-breasted grosbeak. Hostas are prettiest when they are new. The woods behind us is filled with wild flowers and new growth. Several years ago we planted a few ferns. Now we have lots of them. I love seeing them uncurl. They look like fiddleheads. […]
Last Pictures Of Maine ~ For This Visit
Sunday, May 25 I have a few more pictures on file that did not fit into any other posts. These first few shots are signs of spring in Maine ~ from the day I walked on the dead end road that goes by Mark and Diane’s house. We saw this interesting mailbox one day when we […]
Prayer Walking In Maine
When visiting ~ I try to find a least one morning when I can take a relaxing walk and breathe in some Maine air ~ and pray. I love to walk and notice what is going on around me. I thought about the sand that lines both sides of the road ~ because we are not far from several […]
An Array of Flowers In Our Yard
Springtime brings so many flowers to our yard that I barely have time to post the pictures. These were in my photo file from a few weeks ago. There are some afternoons when the sky just calls me outside. This was a day our cherry trees were in full blossom. Our tulips looked pretty in the warm evening sun. Our […]
Tulips ~ Oh, So Pretty!
A few weeks ago our tulips were just beginning to open. Within days we had beautiful tulips everywhere.
A Beautiful Spring Day
These pictures are left over in my file from about a week and a half ago. On this kind of morning, I am glad we live in the country and I can walk around our yard in a house coat – at least in the backyard. 🙂 It was warm, a bit foggy, and trees were […]
A Nice Day In My Office
Today, April 18 Thanks to four volunteers (Lois Keller, Lois Wells, Josh and Jason Diffenderfer) we labeled and prepared 2,692 individual Highway News & Good News for mailing ~ between 9:00 am and 10:30 am. I told them that we were glad nobody forgot about it, because if Cerwin and I had to do this job alone, it would take four-and-a-half hours. Truly, many hands […]
The Daffodils In Our Yard
They are adding the color of yellow to our mostly brown woodlot. They will always remind me of my dad. Daddy loved daffodils. Some of ours came from his daffodil bed. From the Internet: Daffodils are attractive trumpet-shaped perennial flowers that bloom from bulbs during the spring. They are considered to be one of the most […]
Springtime Variety
Early April I am enjoying springtime more than ever ~ after the l-o-n-g winter… …and seeing flowers with fresh joy. Sunshine on flowers is delighting my eyes. Early one morning a pair of mallards came waltzing through our yard ~ also aware that it is springtime. Cerwin raking and picking up thousands of nuts and shells from our shellbark trees ~ left behind […]
My Afternoon Walk ~ Today
It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon for a two-mile-plus walk around the neighborhood. I could see evidence that the trees are beginning to bud. There are many small ground flowers along the road… …including dandelion. Pretty tulips in a neighbor’s yard. A few more steps and I was in front of the cows. A pretty daffodil. ~~~ My first […]
Female Purple Finch or Female House Finch?
Female purple finches and female house finches are similar ~ so I cannot always tell one from the other. From the internet: The sharpness of the markings is key for distinguishing female house finches and purple finches. Female house finches have blurry streaks on their underparts and a relatively plain face, while female purple finches have […]
I Love A Beautiful Sky
I was mesmerized by quickly moving clouds ~ a few days ago ~ with the backdrop of a beautiful blue sky. You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds. ~Henry David Thoreau The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the […]
Amazing Sunrise
There are beautiful sunrises ~ and then there are sunrises that are just amazing. This is what it looked like outside early on March 20 – without any color touch-up to the pictures. I stood and watched and enjoyed the colors for a long time. Beautiful! Glorious! Amazing! Words that came to mind.