Brighten your corner
This is a great image of what the Church looks like when we all gather together on Sunday! But today is Monday ... it's cold and grey and drizzly ... just a typical June day in the Pacific…
Lessons in the Dirt – Weeding
I spent some time outside this morning, on my hands and knees in the garden. The weeds have overtaken the garden, so much so that I couldn’t even find the baby cucumber plants amid the mess of green…
Lessons from a Cacao Farm
Last week I had the opportunity to tour a Cacao Farm. I love chocolate! And I love gardening and plants and anything growing! So what could be better! I have been struck with several spiritual insights as takeaways…
A Big Stink!
We came across several blooming skunk-cabbage on Saturday. I was pretty excited ... I think skunk-cabbage is a cool-looking plant. It gets it's name from the fact that when it's leaves are crushed or bruised it emits a…
Rocks Cry Out!
Our Puget Sound beaches are nothing but rocks, rocks, and more rocks. Whenever I go outside to do yard work I encounter rocks, rocks, and more rocks. This photo (with the Scripture passage) was taken high up on…
Sealed Basins
One great advantage of a birdbath that leaks … is that mosquitoes can’t lay eggs, cause water doesn’t last for weeks.Stale, stagnant water would draw mosquito throngs, and result in mosquito babies which would bite all summer long.In…
Birdbath Fill-Up
My birthday is approaching, in a month or more. My daughter found the perfect gift, hidden on the forest floor.A concrete birdbath basin, resting on a rotten stump, fashioned from leftover building concrete, rather than being taken to…
Let Go of the Old
It’s Thursday morning, my correspondence day. I can’t wait to create a new coloring page!I find a cool picture, quite by happenstance … though I think its discovery was not at all by chance.The coloring picture shows a…