Autumn 2017

Fall 2017 

My favorite pictures from a drive around the countryside...

Spring 2017 Blossoms & Sunsets

The sun rising from April 2. 

A sweet way to wake up.

Forsythia blooming. They came out early this year...

Sunshine in the evening on April 15th

   

       

A woodpecker...

Lots of wild cherry blossoms...

                                                                 And beautiful apple blossoms

                         

                         

Summer & Early Fall Pictures, 2016

Our part of the country has suffered from a pretty rough drought since July of this year. Thankfully, despite the dry conditions, we had many glimpses of summertime green at our house and even some bursts of color from wildflowers & perennials. To help keep our plants alive into the fall, we faithfully watered as the sun was shining bright & hot. Using rainwater collected from the barn roof, all the flower beds and veggie patches were soaked each day. My heart goes out to all the farmers who have lost entire crops for the season...

A woodpecker after a rare rain-filled morning in late July.

Do you recognize this one? It's one of the flowers from a hosta.

A bumble bee on a Purple Cone Flower / Echinacea

Front porch foliage...

Zinnias growing nearby what we call a "Butterly Bush"

More Zinnias...

A sweet pair of Morning Glories

"English garden" as we like to say... 

Fall leaves starting to turn a burnt orange color. The trees have held on to their green extra-long this year.

Sunrises and sunsets...

"This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him." 

Lamentations 3:21-25

I'm thinking of seeking as kind of like looking through a pair of binoculars... Eagerly looking for, hoping for the return of Jesus.

God bless! Danielle

Summer beauty

All of the beautiful signs and colors of summer are here, all over our piece of land... It's warm enough for geraniums to be outside in pots and some of the beautiful perrennials and wildflowers are in bloom. It's almost overwhelming to my senses once it arrives, but I will always love summertime...

Here are some pictures from the past week in our flower beds and around our barn

A bunch of blue cornflowers, so wild and prolific...

One of our wildflower beds out back against a backdrop of dark green shadows in a hedgerow of trees. The poppies made their way into their spots from seeds we planted across the yard...

Wildflowers to the left and a hosta at the bottom... To the right is a "weed," but I love how it looks and how happily it grows in our soil and dry weather. I only keep a few around the yard so they won't overtake the more delicate plants...

Aren't these flowers so sweet looking? They are so tiny, from the tops of cilantro plants we bought from our Amish neighbors.

A light pink geranium...

One of my favorite spots, a container full of verbena (a dry weather kind of flower) and morning glories. And a squirrel!

I've been thinking about this verse today, you may have heard it many times over the years. Our pastor mentioned it in his sermon today about mercy, peace and love - three things God gives us. I'm so thankful God's love for me isn't dependent on my perfect love for Him or perfection in this life. He reaches out His saving hand to anybody, whosoever, hears the truth of Jesus and believes. Just because He loves us. I'm so thankful that is true. And once we believe and receive this truth, He helps us become more like Him each day through His Spirit He sends to comfort and guide us.

John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

I John 4:10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 

I John 4:13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.

God bless! Danielle