Friday, April 26, 2024

Blue Snowdrops?


We don't know the name of these flowers, (Do they make blue snowdrops?), but they surprise and delight us early each spring. A few bulbs dug from my grandmother's garden before her last home was sold, planted in a bed of our own, and now slowly multiplying into a little plot of beauty.

Friday, March 15, 2024

Hidden Beauty


Our landscape is rather dull on the whole this month. Until you look up close.

Thursday, March 14, 2024

Growing in Grace


These roses have grown in grace with age. That's how I'd like to grow.

Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Winter Flowers


Isn't it nice that God preserves some flowers for us to enjoy all winter long?

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Refreshments


Sometimes when many tasks are pressing, a just-because project hits the spot. Not as an escape, but for low calorie refreshment.

Monday, February 26, 2024

Treasures Mined


Have you ever worked so hard for something that it becomes much more precious than had it just been handed to you? The toil and maybe a pint or two of blood, sweat, and tears makes the end result more special to you, don't you think?

That is the way it is with the verses I have chosen for my stickers. Each piece of Scripture was extracted from reading the Word through days, no, years of brain fog and deep need. The verses were scribbled down into notebooks, poignant truths that touched my heart in the midst of the storm.

My hope is that these treasures mined from the depths will extend their glittering beauty and worth into your life as well.

Saturday, February 24, 2024

Powers equal to your tasks


"Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks!"

- John Flynn -
missionary to the Australian Outback

Friday, February 23, 2024

Stages of Life


We relish tulips in all stages of life.

Tuesday, February 13, 2024

In the Shop


If you love watercolors, inspiring Bible verses, and stickers, you may want to check out my Etsy shop.

Saturday, February 3, 2024

After Christmas

After Christmas comes winter. At least that is how it goes most years. And while the snow is daily melting into puddles outdoors, I am keeping the spirit of the season in my decor.


For Christmas I decorated my dresser with festive antique glass balls and fresh greens. (Greens went to the resting place of all good, cut branches a couple weeks ago.)


Today the balls departed and were replaced by a sparce wintery scene with hints of spring.


The shelf above my bed keeps all its wintery evergreens with the omission of Christmas's opulent fresh greenery. Because it was no longer fresh.

Monday, January 29, 2024

Balm


Even as chronic illness lessens in ferocity, the remaining daily impact is wearing.


What balm there is in little things, like sunshine on skin, reading outdoors in January, quietly talking with the Father on a slow walk...


...and an evening of creating greeting cards out of scraps.

Saturday, January 27, 2024

All is Well


All is well in the world of a cat when the sun shines, the temperatures are above 0° F, and she can sit atop one of her people.

Sunday, January 21, 2024

A Family Tradition


My family is not the avid game playing type, though one or two would be if they had willing opponents. Yet every Christmas season we pull out our set of double fifteen dominos for comfortable round upon round of "dominos train." (Does it have another name? After so many years of calling it this, the original and true name may have been lost.)

We have spread the game out well this year. Tonight should show who the winner will be. Mom and I are vying for that spot at present, but you never know what could happen in a game that requires little strategy and rests mostly upon the draw.

Saturday, January 20, 2024

Hoods

A hood for Evangeline...



...and another for when she grows.


Friday, January 19, 2024

From the Archives

Come along for an early-October adventure!


We set out on our bikes from home...


...and peddled over two miles of gravel roads to Direwood.


Mom drove the van out and helped us pick gallons of wild rose hips.


They were gorgeously vibrant with a pleasantly sweet fragrance.


We saw corn being harvested...


...and made our way back home.

Thursday, January 18, 2024

Hand Made Gifts

Baby gift for Issac



Booties for many babies to come



Christmas sweater for Issac
(knit by me, gifted by Mom and Dad)



Christmas sweater for Joseph
(same gifting arrangement as Issac's; Hannah knit Evangeline's sweet grey and coral sweater)



Watercolor for Jeannie, our generous neighbor-friend


Monday, January 15, 2024

Sunday, January 14, 2024

Celebrating Lives

- October -
Mom's birthday 


- November -
Joseph's birthday

- December -
Isaac's birth
My birthday (Not a single picture captured by me!)
Evangeline's birthday
Jesus' birthday