Ode to the Dandelion

 Oh dandelion,how I love thee....

 You speak to the eternal child in us all.....

 Innocent days,love and laughter'

 Sitting in meadows ; one child among ten.

 Creating memories I love to recall.

                     
                                Some pics from my morning stroll....

Couldn't help but think of this verse...

As for man his days are like grass,

he flourishes like a flower of the field;

the wind blows over it and it is gone...

Psalm 103:15,16.

A Glider flew across the endless blue....

My Canvas

The morning greeting held an invitation;it didn't take long to accept
somehow I knew this was the time to get out in that garden. It had been kindly tilled by my brother-inlaw a few weeks ago,and for some reason, time and weather kept me away.

 I gathered the necessary tools for the job and contemplated my scheme. I have a simple format but it works well, straight rows, with lettuce and such close to the front.My oldest and youngest who was home "sick" could offer there help.I decided this was an education of sorts and she'd go to school at noon.  Soon we had planted peas,onions,potatoes,carrots,radish,spinach,lettuce,and gladiola bulbs.                                      
                                                                     I ask not for a larger
                                                        garden,  but for finer seeds.
                                                                                                (Russel Conwell)

Just as we planted the last potato

the skies opened ,spilling huge droplets of rain. We ran for the house laughing and thankful to the One who waters the earth in due season.





I expect some new phases of  life this summer,and shall try to get
                the honey from each moment.
                           ~Lucy Stone~
                          

Books or Flowers?

If you had to choose either books or flowers, which would you choose?

That would be a real dilemma for me!!

Both are quite undemanding yet both bring such unexplainable comfort, joy,
 and beauty into our lives.

Aren't you just thrilled that we live in a world where there are  books and flowers???

Flowers lead to books which lead to thinking and not thinking and then more flowers and music.Then many more flowers and many more books.       (Maria Kalman)

   I wanted to do a fun post! I hope it brought a smile,    Now out to enjoy that sunshine!

Remembering to Forget

My Verse today....But This One Thing I do:
 Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me.   (Philipians 3 :13)

Isn't that a wonderful verse?
It's so easy sometimes  to beat myself up and let go of  regrets and mistakes.
And I don't always mean the big things ;sometimes it's those silly, little everyday happenings and minute decisions where it would have been very nice to have the foresight of hindsight....."why didn't I stop to pick up chicken feed when I drove right by yesterday?" or "why did I make such an insensitive comment?" or "why didn't I plant my garden last week?" These are small things in reality but if I allow them to take root they can rob me of peace.

So a long time ago I claimed the verse above as I keep pressing on
where some day I will recieve the prize.