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Blooms and Scripture 8
We have a line of these growing along the ditch-bank. I think they’re wild Yucca plants but not sure. Anyway, they have beautiful blooms. “For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your...
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Blooms and Scripture 10
Always a wonderful plant – it was a gift several years ago and has continued to bloom. It also has liked the abundant rain this year. The blooms open at night and wilt away the next day when the light...
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Blooms and Scripture 11
Here are some planted wildflowers in the side yard (if you plant them, are they still wildflowers?) Actually, this is the second year of the flowers. I planted them last year where the ground was bare...
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Blooms and Scripture 13
This magnolia blossom isn’t perfect but it is significant. Sharon has always wanted a magnolia tree so she could smell the blossoms. This is our first blossom from our first magnolia tree – the tree...
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Blooms and Scripture 14
One of my favorite plants. It has one of the brightest, whitest flowers. I haven’t had success with the red ones, though. Not sure what the difference is. “Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;...
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Blooms and Scripture 15
Sharon and I like to watch the English mystery TV shows (Poirot, Miss Marple, Inspector Lewis, etc.) During those I often notice the flower gardens. They’re so full with so many different plants....
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Blooms and Scripture 20
The coneflowers keep coming back and are beautiful year after year – “in manifold witness”. Great is Thy Faithfulness: “Summer and winter, and springtime and harvest, Sun, moon and stars in their...
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The Windmill and The Holy Spirit
The windmill was my choice for my 40th wedding anniversary present. Thanks to Sharon for agreeing it would be appropriate. In case you’re wondering, even though she will enjoy this too, she got...
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Like the Wind Spinning Windmills, The Holy Spirit Keeps Working
With the brisk winds lately, it’s been pleasant to look in the backyard and see the Holy Spirit working. Actually, not exactly that. But, it has been pleasant to pass a window, look toward the garden...
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Winter is Ending – Just Like God Promised – 3
The Forsythia is getting started. Still about half and half, but Spring will eventually win out. While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall...
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Winter is Ending – Just Like God Promised – 4
I’m assuming these are a sight for winter in this field. Since our neighbor put in a pivot irrigation system a couple of years ago, I imagine he plans to move the cows somewhere else and plant...
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Winter is Ending – Just Like God Promised – 5
The garden and peach tree are in a slumber for now. The hardy weeds are coming up well by the tree though. You can’t see it, but the peach tree is budding out a bit after the earlier severe pruning....
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Redbud, Clouds and Sky – What a Sight! And, Jesus – What a Savior!
While not yet a big tree, the redbud in the front yard bloomed spectacularly this year. The Lord’s Creation is spectacular all year round, but Spring is especially wonderful. The process of new life...
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God Graciously Gives the Increase
There are many opportunities waiting on God, and also waiting on us. God must be in it and God must provide the power, but we have the blessing of being involved, too And when we do work at it, we can...
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Garden, Blooms and Scripture 1
Time for a garden, blooms and Scripture update. I added “garden” since they’re not all blooms. The photo shows the new screen door I put in the blueberry frame. For several years I’ve used a “flap” of...
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Garden, Blooms and Scripture 2
The foundation of this photo is the six cups of blueberries needed for a blueberry pie. Sharon used them for the pie on Father’s Day and it’s being enjoyed much. I called it a harvest bowl when I added...
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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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