Road Trip

Oh yes,

it's a beautiful thing,

 a road trip

that stretches across the

 highways and byways.

 Finally.....

vacation!!

I'll return in a while,

 dear friends and family.

Lord bless

 and keep you

in His loving care......Dee Dee

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Lovely And Unusual Growth

This morning I was hanging

 the laundry and the Mister

was trimming and thinning out

a large cluster of palm trees,

in the garden.

As he clipped away, palm

fronds falling  to the ground,

he discovered something quite

unusual looking growing on the trees.

Notice the pod hanging from the palm

in this photo..........

Hidden beneath all the growth, was something

lovely and actually quite  beautiful.

 We had found delicate stems of berries,  some in the beginning

stages of blooming. It will be interesting to see

how they develop.

The trimming is now completed, and all the

excessive growth is cleared away. Very soon, this

portion of the garden will have a new look.

Our new plants will  be drought

resistant.  We're thinking a nice variety

of Crotons and lovely pink Mandevilla

to cover the fence.

When their buds burst open,

you see for yourselves and know

that summer is now near.

~Luke 2l:30

Have a beautiful day everyone!  Dee Dee

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Natures Quiet Presence

I stood still in the

woodlands, observing.......

With quiet wings,

a dragonfly flew by,

and landed on

a small branch draped

with delicate spider webs. 

I felt alone while standing

under the umbrella of

 the live oak trees.

The woods

were quiet, and seemingly

void of any living thing.

Breaking the silence, 

a small grey 

squirrel scampered

 up close to me.

One of the gentlest of all

birds is the Mourning Dove.

They were a pair, and I

 watched them,

 on this quiet morning,

 in our cottage garden.

Sometimes,

peace and solitude are

needed.  Nothing too much;

nothing wanting.

Have a wonderful day! Dee Dee

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Now Where Did I Put It?

I was determined to begin my

"new babies" sewing this morning.

But, where was my

"pin cushion?" 

After searching high and low,

it suddenly occurred to me where my

"pretty hand-made pin cushion" was.....

it was in Boston Massachusetts!!!

You see, about two months ago, we

had a mission's conference at our

church and each missionary family

had made a "wish list" of things

needed. One sweet lady, mother of

five children had requested a nice

sewing kit.  I could see why she

might need this from time to time,

so I set out to make her request complete.

I began compiling  all sorts of sewing

and mending tools , and

to complete the sewing kit, 

I tucked in my favorite

"pretty hand-made pin cushion."

Somewhere in Boston,

a new Baptist Church is being

planted and my pin cushion

is serving in some capacity,

for the Lord's work,

being completed there......and

that's a good thought!

Today,

my good fortune was

finding a bit of the

older pin cushion fabric,

I had tucked away.

In no time at all, I had

hand stitched another cushion,

and was readied for "new babies" sewing.

Have a sweet ole day.....Dee Dee

A Summer Read

I visited my library re-sale bookstore

this past weekend, looking for good reads

to take on vacation.  I found the perfect

book for me, for the fact that I am 

fascinated with historical figures.

"The World's Great Letters"

is a book

 filled with private communications

of the foremost people of world history

ranging from Alexander the Great and

Saint Paul the Apostle, to Thomas Jefferson

and Napoleon Bonaparte.

I do wonder at the disappearance

of hand written letters,

 in this era of Internet, Texting

and Voice Mail.

Hmmm....Christopher Columbus reports his

first impressions of America to the court of Spain.

P. T. Barnum offers General Ulysses S. Grant

a job.  "I will gve you one hundred

thousand dollars cash...."

This does seem a lovely book,

and my curious mind wants to know more,

and as much as possible.

Have a beautiful day everyone!......Dee Dee

So Pretty Zinnias

My potted Zinnias are having

 a bit of a struggle now

that the Florida temps have

been in the 90s.....

I am faithful to pick off the

dead blooms encouraging

others to come along....

and they are doing so now,

although slowly.  They are

so beautiful and I am showing

favoritism for the white Zinnias

this year.

A spiritual thought for today.....

God's holy beauty comes near you

like a spiritual scent, and it stirs

your drowsing soul.....He creates

in you the desire to find Him

and run after Him.....to follow

wherever He leads you, and to

press peacefully against His heart

wherever He is.

Have a beautiful day....Dee Dee

They're Called Celosia

We began our Saturday with

a wake-up phone call.

Seven year old grandson

had an early morning

Upward flag football game.

He's good..... a really good

quarterback and I have lots

of action photos for happy

memories.

Back home, and

with  my adrenalin still

excellerated, I thought to myself

 why let this energy go

to waste....

....so I put on my garden

gloves and proceeded  with

potting those new annuals

I brought home yesterday.

They're called

Celosia and that's

just about all I know about

them. Not so hard the

planting part and they look

real nice in this fancy

oblong clay container. 

When I finished planting

and watering, I found  the

best place for the arrangement

to be right on this ole garden chair.

I'm real pleased with this

little arrangement and

when the Bougainvillea

climbs on up the fence....well

all I can say is "look out"

.......things are going

to look real pretty.

May your life be sweet this Lord's day......Dee Dee

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