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Blessings from God – Peanuts!
Well, along with the Cotton, they’re also harvesting peanuts around here. This is the field across the road from our house. The peanut plants were turned over a few days ago and are now dry and ready...
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Blessings From God – Unusual and Beautiful Flowers
Enjoy the Clerodendrum from last Spring. The butterfly is folded up and hard to see, but enjoy that too. As I understand it, the bush is native to China and India. It does well under the shade of the...
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Blessings from God – Plumbago
Sharon likes blue, and thankfully we had a good year for plumbago. We haven’t had success in the past. One year they just rotted away. Another year they froze (we actually had several weeks of cold in...
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Merry Christmas – God Bless You and Yours
Merry Christmas to all – God Bless you and yours. “For He said, “Surely they are my people, children who will not deal falsely.” And He became their Savior.” Isaiah 63:8 ESV
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Spread the Gospel – Like Beggar’s Lice
Here in south Georgia we call them beggar’s ticks and beggar’s lice (among other names). They’re seeds from a part of a large “genus” of plants called “stickers”. Some stickers, like blackberry vines,...
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Learning in Life – Watch Where Your Shadow Falls
It would have been a lovely photo of Black-eyed Susans in our backyard. But, I wasn’t thinking or noticing where my shadow fell. One point in my personal mission statement is “Pay Attention”. Obviously...
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Blessings from God – 100 Followers (Plus 3?)
I thank the Lord and all of you out there who follow this blog. We reached a milestone of 100 followers last week. It is humbling to think there are that many people who went through the time and...
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Confused Peach Tree? – Praise the Lord!
I’ve seen quite a few blog posts about this winter’s weird weather – I agree it’s been weird around here. The picture was our peach tree back in January. The weather was warm enough, long enough, to...
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A Wicked Surprise in the Back Forty
A wicked surprise in the back forty! When I cleared out the underbrush in the area of cut pines (referred to as the new landscape area in previous blogs), I found a lot of self started pine seedlings....
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God’s Faithfulness – Springtime is Here!
Some of our Winter days were more like Spring than the days since Spring began last week – it’s been wet and a bit cool (though,nowhere near as cold as some of you were). But, there are definitely...
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What Ingredients Create Our Spiritual Mulch?
The flower beds were a mess. Some still are since it’s a work in progress. I didn’t add any mulch in the fall, so the weeds were free to multiply and the warm winter helped them along. But, thankfully,...
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Sure Signs of Faith
Want a sure sign that Spring is here? Then, look for the budding pecan trees. They seem to be the last large trees around here (south Georgia) that bud out. Want a sure sign of faith? Then look for...
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Blooms and Scripture 1
Going a couple weeks with no post deserves a few to get going again. Things have been blooming wonderfully, so I’ll post a few “blooms and Scripture”. A few days of Psalms 25 – one of my favorites!...
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Blooms and Scripture 2
Psalms 25 – Continued – my favorite section (and a prayer for every day). “Show me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths. Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on...
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Blooms and Scripture 3
Psalms 25 (continued) “Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way. The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way. All the paths of the LORD are...
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Blooms and Scripture 4
Oak Leaf offspring from a small seedling we bought probably 20 years ago. And, the Bald Cypress in the Tree Garden (a long way from 90′ tall, but getting started) Psalms 25 continued “For thy name’s...
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Blooms and Scripture 5
Psalms 25 Completed “The troubles of my heart are enlarged : O bring thou me out of my distresses. Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins. Consider mine enemies ; for they are...
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Blooms and Scripture 6
Still busy these days (a good thing), but flowers are still blooming so I’ll do another round of Blooms and Scripture. I have a non existent vegetable garden this year – too many Saturdays in a row...
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Blooms and Scripture 7
The swamp hibiscus is new this year. The pink one has been fantastic for several years. I’ve used several pictures of it in the blog. “For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith...
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Blooms and Scripture 8
We have a line of these growing along the ditch-bank. I think they’re wild Yucca plants but not sure. Anyway, they have beautiful blooms. “For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your...
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