Florida

Morning walk

  We are on the road visiting friends and family in Lakeland, Brandon, and Bradenton, Florida.  We are blessed to be able to share with so many our calling to work with the Blackfoot people in Lethbridge alongside the Amazing Grace Community Church.

  As we travel, I enjoy so much seeing the beauty of the state that we grew up in - just want to share some of that with you this morning.

Hibiscus

Lake Morton - with swans!

Palm fronds - cleaned up many of these while we were growing up!

Bromiliads

Can't say I have ever seen this type of cactus before - information would be appreciated!

The peacefulness of moss hanging from oak trees.
I remember as a child when my parents first moved to Florida when I was 6 years old.
Seeing the moss on the trees as we traveled I-75 heading down to Valrico, Florida "Valley of Gold".
 The moss in the trees always reminds me of our Florida home.


What memories of your childhood home come to you when and if you return for visits?
And what about your forever home?  What do you envision it to be like?



20 But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,21 who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
(Philippians 3:20 ESV)

Saturday walk in the Rainy Woods

Howard and I went for an evening walk tonight, it was still sprinkling from a long day of hard rains, but everything was "lime green" color and we had to go enjoy it.

Photos include a Jack-in-the-Pulpit, Mayapples, and other beautiful green plants coming to life.

Plants in the garden continue to bloom, strawberries are flowering and the potato plants are all up, we'll see if we beat the potato bugs this year since we have guinea hens...

Also, we enjoyed the creek flowing at full capacity.

March 23, 2013

Spring has arrived with more promise of new life.

We had a nice rain overnight and this morning which is good since Howard put down some more seed in the Hay pasture on Friday.

And another cool front is moving through, so the wood stove is still fired up. (Sorry for the blurry photo, hard to tell when doing everything by cell phone.)

Don't mind Howard trying to eat the baby chicks...wishful thinking.

New baby Sven is doing well. 

We allowed Blaze and Ivan to become acquainted to the big pasture for a bit since we moved the 4 older cows to the Back 40. We have three pastures for the cows to rotate between. The Main pasture, Back 40 behind the house, and the Oklahoma pasture due to its shape.  Come for a visit any time and take a stroll.