Lessons in the Dirt

I was sitting calmly on the back deck enjoying the sunshine when the gravel on the front drive crunched … then the doorbell rang.  Much to my surprise it was my neighbor down the street, whom I had…

This beautiful, variegated rose is “footprints across my soul” … precious memories of dear friends, and the wonderful times we have had together!  Our friends brought this small rose over to us as a gift one evening, when…

This past February I came across this wonderful set of garden pruners and shears at Costco.  We could most certainly use those!  The blackberry briars, sticker bushes, and Big Leaf Maple shoots are aggressively trying to overrun the…

As I was walking past the living room, I noticed the clerodendrum (tropical bleeding heart) had grown off its support post … and was reaching still further.  Immediately the verse popped into my mind:  “Forgetting what is behind…

Three years ago, my daughter gave me a small aloe vera plant as a birthday gift.  It was a very small plant … but it grew.  It grew and grew, and before I knew it, there were multiple…

When I first came across some little blooms like these, I was about to admire them … but then I realized they were on sticker bushes and I therefore deemed them unworthy of being awed over.  But afterwards,…

God cares about the teeny tiny things!  What you might not have noticed at first glance is that there is a tiny little white/translucent spider on the top flower, just underneath the yellow part.  The spider blends into…

Each March the quiet of winter is broken, as the nightly song of frog-chorus brings the forest back to life.  Spring is on its way!  Announced by praise … from a hidden place.  The thing about the songs…

This photo is one my kids took this past weekend while hiking in the Cascades.  They came across many trees just like this one while on their hike.  The lesson God gave my kids is that the warmth…