Lessons from the forest

We all go through hard times in our life.    Painful, intensely difficult seasons.    Things which rip huge pieces out of who we are.   Here you can see a Bigleaf maple tree at the back edge of our yard.   …

My backyard is nothing but little white puffs of cottonwood fluff  …  all floating sideways across my backyard  …  like a fluff-puff “river” in the air.    It’s impossible to capture it with my camera.    With my eye I…

The Cottonwood trees are starting to “puff” everywhere.    I have been wondering for the past few weeks when they would start sending out their “puffs” of white fluff all over the place.  Yesterday afternoon, I noticed the very…

I was outside working in the yard when my attention was caught by two mighty birds of prey riding circles high in the sky … in a beautiful dance together.   It was captivating!    I had never seen anything…

The past few blog posts have been pondering God’s protection and care  …  not only for His creatures, but also for those who love and follow Him.  God has provided camouflage protection for the little slugs.   But their…

I was walking loops around my front drive for exercise, when I noticed each time I passed a certain spot, a little finch was flying from tree to tree … obviously very agitated and chirping at me!    “That…

I was relaxing on the back deck last week (on one of the first warm sunny days of the year!)  …  when crunch, crunch, crunch … out of the woods trotted three deer.   The leader of the group…

“Then Jesus gave them this illustration:  ‘Notice the fig tree or any other tree.  When the leaves come out, you know without being told that summer is near.  In the same way, when you see all these things…

The background photo for today is the view out my kitchen window as I stand at the kitchen sink and wash dishes.  When you first looked at the picture, did you notice that the entire left-half of the…