Rest in the Lord and be willing to wait for Him. Psalm 37:7 (NLV)
Monday, February 8 I don’t derive great joy in going to where there are great crowds of people, but Cerwin, Jeff, Jordan, Donovan, Diana, and Gloria were going – and it was my birthday. What I do enjoy is watching activities that are going on in the Large and Small Arenas while the others are visiting […]
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. […]
Monday, April 13 to Thursday, April 16 Bob and Doris are also beekeepers. Two of their hives survived the winter – this one was quite busy when we were there. The other was not as busy, so most of my pictures came from the other one. Bees were constantly coming and going. Notice the yellow pollen […]
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. […]
Saturday Evening, May 24 Diane is a daughter after my own heart. As we were concluding our meal at Taste of Maine, she said, “Let’s go right at the end of the drive, then take the next right and see what is on the other side of the lake.” I love back roads, and it didn’t […]
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 […]
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 […]
Friday Evening, April 18. Jere and Kristen invited us to go with their family to see Bears at a local cinema ~ as an early birthday gift for Cerwin. It is a rare occasion for us to go to a cinema, so we looked forward to the evening with great anticipation. We noticed that there were […]
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 […]
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 […]
Monday, November 18 It was fun to open our hotel room curtain early each morning, then open the sliding glass door to our small deck overlooking the lake and watch the sunrise. It was about this time that I made coffee (in the pot in our room) and began to blog about the previous day – while […]
Trees By Joyce Kilmer 1886–1918 I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in Summer wear A nest […]
This is the wide view of where I took the close-up photos on my nature walk a few weeks ago when waiting for a truck show to begin. The first few were taken along the woods on the far left. Oh, the scent of honeysuckle! This dead tree and the greenery around it caught my attention. […]
Saturday, September 21 There was a small creek at the bottom of the hill. There was more goldenrod beyond the fence, but it was time to cross the road and make my way back to the truck show that was about to begin. Come along. It is a warm, beautiful day. It was fun discovering […]
This is one of my favorite things to do – take a walk on a nice day and look for and photograph things that most of us miss when we take a broad view of the scenery around us. This was my broad view – a few weeks ago when we were at a truck […]
I quickly went for my camera when I looked out our kitchen window on Tuesday morning. It is difficult to find a prettier spider web than one that has been spun on a foggy, dew-covered, late summer morning. It must have been a night for spiders, because there were several webs near the house. Spider webs […]
How is that for title combinations? That is because I wanted to finish the last set of pictures before I post Truck Rally pictures. After installing a ductless heating and cooling system a few weeks ago, and removing wall air conditioners, we either had to change our siding, or have strange-looking spots on the exterior walls. So […]