Emerging

Happy Flowers

Wild Roses

Honeysuckles

At our last house, we had dozens of honeysuckle bushes. I miss them. I loved walking out my front door to be overwhelmed with the fragrance. While I was in Kansas over Memorial Day, my friend had these bushes in her backyard and I had to take pictures.

Bleeding Heart

A day beside the River

Variety

I never cease to be amazed at the variety of God's world. I've never seen a pinecone like this one until my last trip to Oregon!

Two Roads

ROAD LESS TRAVELED

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth

Then took the other as just as fair
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet, knowing how way leads onto way
I doubted if I should ever come back

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence
Two roads diverged in a wood
And I took the one less traveled by
And that has made all the difference


Robert Frost (1920)

Skyward

Oregon

Roadside

On the wind

Metamorphasis

As a follow up to the last post with the cicada skins, my Hero caught this one coming out of it's skin last night. This is something you don't get to actually witness very often.

Dandelion

Mrs. McGregor?

Butterfly and Queen Anne's Lace

Lost in flight

Wildflowers

I'm not thrilled with the focus or the depth of field in this shot, but something about the colors keeps drawing me back. What do you think?

Sunset July 20, 2008

Around the block

On a walk around the block with my Hero, we saw wondrous things.

Clouds prepared by God:
"Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains."

Psalm 147:8

The grass of the field, clothed by God:
"Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?"

Matthew 6:30

A feather from a bird — a bird God feeds:
"Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?"

Matthew 6:26

The creeping things that God made and called good:
"And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good."

Genesis 1:25

We saw all of this in a walk around the block.