Be Still and Know...Then and Now

Sunday, April 4 Easter Sunday It was nice to have my whole family in worship for Easter morning! After church we all came back to grandma’s house for lunch! After this… it was necessary to do this…can you guess what the Easter Bunny left at grandma’s house. We had fun blowing bubbles in the bath tub!   I was wondering when she would figure this out. This is now her new favorite thing. She crawls in closes the door then crawls back out and closes the door. The process is of course repeated multiple time. As you can see the dog is a bit perplexed as to this latest development. Monday, April 5 Genus: Loropetalum (lor-oh-PET-al-um) ( Info ) It survived the move (and winter) from the front yard to back! It’s nice to finally have a bit of color in the back yard. Tuesday, April 6 Oooops! Maybe I just thought I took a picture! Wednesday, April 7 Carpe Deim, yes we seized the day and swung by the subway and met Skoots1mom and her girl child at the park...

Today is Friday Finding Beauty hosted by Claudia over at Dipity Road . I had to make an unexpected trip out this morning so I grabbed the new camera and headed out the door to meet my husband. I am trying to be very intentional with my picture taking since I have jumped on the Project 365 bandwagon, but I thought for today I would share a few shots that I took when I stopped off at the park just before you get to my neighborhood. It has been so cold and yucky lately, but not today! It was very pleasant outside. The sky was a clear slate of cloudless blue and the temperature was just perfect. walking weather. Well God is so amazing. His unique ability for complete balance in all things is just so very God. Even in the midst of winter with all the trees gone dormant and resting up for the blossom of spring there was still an array of interesting flora to be had. You just had to look a bit closer to find it. Just look at all the amazing glimpses of his creation I came upon. ...

Just down these steps and a short walk from the main house is the Conservatory.   There were no restrictions on picture taking in there so having been restrained for the better portion of the day I had an absolutely wonderful time snapping away to my hearts content. It was just amazing inside. If you are a regular visitor here at my blog you will know how exacted I get over God’s creation, and boy was He showing of in big way inside the walls of that conservatory. Here is my tropical adventure in the middle of a winter wonderland! Y’all take my advice if you make a visit to Biltmore make sure you take the short walk down those steps and explore the Conservatory. To sum up our visit to Biltmore, it really made me think. On the way home my husband and I discussed how different life must have been, and the reality that we have no concept what it must have been like growing up with that sort of privilege. Cornelia Vanderbilt, the only child of George and Ed...

On our way back into San Francisco we stopped at Muir Woods . This was a suggestion from skoots1mom and I am so glad that we took her advice. One of the park guides told us that some of the trees date from as young as 200 years old to as old as nearly 1000 years old. There are moments when you experience God’s creation is such a powerful way that the only thing you can say is WOW! Words simply fail to adequately describe the experience of walking through those ancient redwoods surrounded by thick lush fern and the deep green mossy carpet blanketing the ground. It was like being transported back to a magical forest filed with fairy tale creatures.     Here is a five minute video of our time in Muir Woods, if you watch until the end there will be a very sweet and unexpected surprise, how cool is God! I have to confess that these last four pictures did not come from my camera. It was so late in the afternoon when we arrived at Muir Woods that the dense ...

It was an amazing discovery! Several weeks ago as skoots1mom and I were walking back to our cars after our morning work out our pioneering spirit took over. We had had a morning of rain and as we walked down to the clubhouse where the workout room is we both commented how soothing the sound of the creek was and how wonderful it would be to sit on the deck above us and listen to the babbling water and drink a cup of morning coffee. The area behind the clubhouse is very densely wooded and you can not see any evidence of the creek, you can certainly hear it but with the trees and thick ground cover  it remains very well hidden. We had finished out workout and were hiding back to our cars when through a very tiny crack in the foliage we could see something. We set off to do a bit of exploring. Within a very few minutes this is what we found! With all the rain we have had over that last few days I took the opportunity this morning before my workout to go back down to...

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