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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 – 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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Absorb God’s Word – Don’t Worry About Overflowing
Water absorbent crystals perform as the name implies: they absorb water. And they can absorb an amazing amount of water. When placed in pots with plants they slowly release the absorbed water and keep...
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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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Garden, Blooms and Scripture 7
Here are the lavender (on the left) and the rosemary under the windmill. First time on the lavender this year, too. I didn’t think about it until I started this series that there were quite a few new...
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Garden, Blooms and Scripture 8 – Angel Trumpets Galore
Angel Trumpets Galore! We have an angel trumpet plant by Sharon’s shop that normally gets out of hand – growing every which way against the wall and windows. This year, we decided to cut all the stems...
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Father’s Day Windspinner – Reacting to the Storms
Here are a wide shot and closeup of the latest windspinner addition to the garden. Sharon gave it to me for Father’s Day. All the vanes are attached to one pipe so they turn together. Even in a...
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Beautiful Blooms – Blessings From God
I’ve missed a bit on the blog posts the last couple of weeks, but thought I would show a few blooms from the backyard. At the moment it has been dry and the last few days were super “wet” – not from...
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Angel Trumpet Topiary Blooming Update
I posted this picture earlier when I was trying to get the Angel Trumpet topiary going. Just wanted to post an update and declare a success (at least in my opinion). In the previous post I also wrote...
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Windspinner Garden
My first video post – had to get the windspinners with the gales we’ve had lately. Sharon and I continue to add windspinners in the garden. For Valentines I gave here the colored one, and she gave me...
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Solar Windspinner at Night
Here’s a shot of the colored windspinner seen in the garden previously. And here it is at night – it has solar charged batteries that light the LED’s. It’s neat to see it spinning at night now. Jesus...
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Blooms and Scripture – Phlox
I’ve been neglecting the blog lately due to stuff, but do hope to get going again. Thought I would post more Blooms and Scripture with this years garden. Here’s the first part of one of my favorite...
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Blooms and Scripture – Wildflowers
The wildflowers have continued for several years after planting over our rebuilt drain field. More verses of one of my favorite prayers – “Remember, O Lord, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses,...
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