Relaxing at the Beach

I always enjoy a day at the beach!

Happy to have Bri along as my companion :)

I really needed some stress relief, this is 

definitely the place I find it!

I hope you are enjoying your summer!

Spring

Last week my daughter & I took our little buddies and went 

to a local park for the day.

I am so happy and blessed that after last year's major

back injury, I can now walk w/o pain and

enjoy both my daughter's company

and God's creation as we toured the park!

This Spring has been just beautiful and glorious-

very lovely weather.

I hope that you are enjoying your Spring season

too.

The flowers appear on the earth;
 the time of the singing of birds is come,
 and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;

Song of Solomon 2:12

Lovely Longwood

Bri and I love to go to Longwood Gardens in PA.

Groupon had 1/2 price...so we went last Sat.

It was such a glorious day!

We had fun--Bri wearing a "hat". :)

I was on "overload" with all of the colors!

Bri in front of the Italian Gardens

We were so happy that the water lilies were open--

they never seem to be open when we're there.

I thought the ones above look like "shark fins"

 

I just couldn't resist snapping the one above--so interesting!

This hibiscus was the size of a dinner plate!

These are the true colors--no editing!

Love this hummingbird sculpture

We went to visit the "student gardens" and loved it!

Wish my veggie garden looked like this!

Complete w/playhouse!

Love these combos

We found this guy in the bush--he found echinacea seeds on

an old plant inside.

It was so refreshing to be outside-surrounded by gorgeous

gardens--and not have to weed! lol

 

Hope you enjoyed these, I'll post more later.

 

 

Longwood February 2013 Part 2

More random examples of God's awesome, amazing handiwork!

And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

¹² And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

I'll post more in another post :)

Our Trip-Day Three-Part 1

In the parking lot of our hotel was this great little place to eat breakfast!

They had fun decorations in it!

Mom wanted to get some flowers to give to those we visited, so

we stopped at this great farmstand

I couldn't resist snapping this pic of heirloom tomatoes

In our travels we saw another "quilt square"

We went to visit my Great Aunt Maude...below is the view from her house!

 She will turn 93 today! She's very fiesty! And has such a sharp mind!

A picture of her and her departed husband in younger years

Bri met her for the first time--she really enjoyed the visit with her. :)

After a nice visit, we left and saw this quilt square in this field.

We then went to visit with the immediate family of our cousin who passed away

What a sweet family, they will be in our prayers in the days to come.

We saw his war decorations

And visited his gravesite with them

Then we had to say goodbye. I hope it isn't too long until

we see them again!