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Garden, Blooms and Scripture 3
Other new additions to the garden hardware and produce this year – a cucumber frame and seedless/burpless cucumbers. Both hardware and “software” are doing very well. The cucumbers are especially good...
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Garden, Blooms and Scripture 4
The banana peppers are another first this year. After ordering sub sandwiches with banana peppers, we found we liked them. Then we bought some in a jar and Sharon began putting them on our homemade...
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Garden, Blooms and Scripture 5
We had to have our drain field replaced several years ago, so I planted wildflowers in the section of disturbed ground. They’ve been re-seeding and coming back every year since then. The beauty of...
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Garden, Blooms and Scripture 6
The Cherokee Rose is the state flower of Georgia. It is beautiful, as you can see. Typically, this rose is a climber, but if you don’t give it anything to climb, it climbs itself. This bush is a mound...
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Garden, Blooms and Scripture 7
Here are the lavender (on the left) and the rosemary under the windmill. First time on the lavender this year, too. I didn’t think about it until I started this series that there were quite a few new...
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Garden, Blooms and Scripture 8 – Angel Trumpets Galore
Angel Trumpets Galore! We have an angel trumpet plant by Sharon’s shop that normally gets out of hand – growing every which way against the wall and windows. This year, we decided to cut all the stems...
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Father’s Day Windspinner – Reacting to the Storms
Here are a wide shot and closeup of the latest windspinner addition to the garden. Sharon gave it to me for Father’s Day. All the vanes are attached to one pipe so they turn together. Even in a...
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Any Wisdom is From God – in Spite of Myself
As I crossed the bridge to Saint Simons Island, I glanced at the mirror and saw a police car following me. I checked my speed, saw it was ok, and continued on. The next time I checked the mirror, the...
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Beautiful Blooms – Blessings From God
I’ve missed a bit on the blog posts the last couple of weeks, but thought I would show a few blooms from the backyard. At the moment it has been dry and the last few days were super “wet” – not from...
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More on Extras in Movies and God’s Purposes – was this cricket a Columbo star?
I watched an old Columbo TV show the other day, and as a car drove by in an outdoor night scene, you could hear one of the cast members making noises in the bushes. The sound of a cricket’s chirps...
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Angel Trumpet Topiary Blooming Update
I posted this picture earlier when I was trying to get the Angel Trumpet topiary going. Just wanted to post an update and declare a success (at least in my opinion). In the previous post I also wrote...
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My New Book Will Be Available Next Week – Thank the Lord!
Createspace says it should be available on Amazon in 3-5 days. The Kindle ebook is in progress and I’ll have more info on all of this soon. Here’s the back cover info - What Biblical lessons can...
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Lay Aside the Weights Which Hinder Us in Our Race
This power pole is next to US Highway 80, along the route between our house and the church we attend. So, for quite awhile, on my trips to and from church, I’ve watched it bend a little more each year....
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God Keeps us Humble, and Blesses Us, in Just the Right Proportion
I’ve had great fun with my book being published, and God has blessed me in the process – but he’s also kept me humble. As you get closer to finally having a real book out there, thoughts of it becoming...
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What’s the Best Thing About Being a (Christian) Writer?
I joined Goodreads the other day and went through the profile process and set up an author page. Found some friends from Facebook and some friends who weren’t from Facebook. So far, it seems to be a...
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Autumn Can’t Be Remembered – How About God’s Love?
I’m reading “Travels With Charley” by John Steinbeck, which tells the story of a trip around the USA they took in the 1960’s (Charley was his poodle). Steinbeck’s first stop was in Maine, so early in...
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Solar Windspinner at Night
Here’s a shot of the colored windspinner seen in the garden previously. And here it is at night – it has solar charged batteries that light the LED’s. It’s neat to see it spinning at night now. Jesus...
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You Are the Light of the World
There’s a song our choir sings titled Be Ye Glad (Michael Blanchard) that has the line “So, be like lights on the rim of the water, giving hope in the storm of the night”. I’m not sure exactly what Mr....
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Blooms and Scripture – Phlox
I’ve been neglecting the blog lately due to stuff, but do hope to get going again. Thought I would post more Blooms and Scripture with this years garden. Here’s the first part of one of my favorite...
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Blooms and Scripture – Wildflowers
The wildflowers have continued for several years after planting over our rebuilt drain field. More verses of one of my favorite prayers – “Remember, O Lord, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses,...
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