Gratitude

For years I have hoped to grow astilbe in our flower beds.    TaDa!    We now have astilbe! At first glance, these pink fluffy flowers on tall stems don’t look like much.    And that’s true.    This is their first…

Check it out!    A red sunflower!    How cool is that!!   I didn’t know sunflowers bloomed red!   Ok, to be honest I picked the seed packet out at Home Depot.    And I planted the seeds.    But I’m still in…

Much to my great surprise, the sunflowers are blooming!    At the end of July!   How cool is that!    (usually the sunflowers don’t bloom until September)   I have always thought that each sunflower has just one single flower, which…

Last year’s garden was a dismal failure.    No zucchini last year.   The year before that  …  well, you can see for yourself.    This was about as good as it got.    Which was not that great. This year, the…

I don’t know how this little ladybug found my beans  …  but I’m so thankful it did!    A couple years back (when the aphids were having a heyday with the beans!), I noticed ladybugs for sale at the…

One of the very best parts of Summer is going raspberry picking!   Raspberries are my above all favorite fruit!    But they are always so expensive in the store that hubby and I never buy them.    If for some…

God’s good blessings to all of us are sprinkled throughout our everyday normal lives.    Last Saturday, our hike up to Lake Twenty-Two was no exception.    Here are a few of God’s good blessings to us along the hike!   …

"Surprise blessings" don't always have to be in the dirt. Sometimes God gives us a "surprise blessing" when we're shopping! Haha! Here you can see the "surprise blessing" God gave me last weekend! I was actually shopping for…

Last week I was taking photos of wildflowers for the blog when, as I was getting ready to use them for verse-art posts, I realized that bugs had been photobombing my flower photos!   So … for today’s post,…

I went on my morning walk of loops around my front drive this morning ...  and look what I came across!  …  mushrooms!    Yes, I know  …  I’ve already shared a photo of mushrooms like these before.    But…