Home Sweet Home

'Mid pleasures and palaces
Though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble,
There's no place like home.
A charm from the skies
Seems to hallow us there,
Which seek thro' the world,
Is ne'er met with elsewhere.
Home, home, sweet sweet home,
There's no place like home,
There's no place like home.

I gaze on the moon
As I tread the drear wild,
And feel that my mother
Now thinks of her child;
As she looks on that moon
From our own cottage door,
Thro' the woodbine whose fragrance
Shall cheer me no more.
Home, home, sweet sweet home,
There's no place like home,
There's no place like home.

An exile from home,
Splendor dazzles in vain,
Oh, give me my lowly
Thatched cottage again;
The birds singing gaily,
That came at my call:
Give me them and that
Peace of mind, dearer than all.
Home, home, sweet sweet home,
There's no place like home,
There's no place like home.

Fresh Cut Flowers

All nature’s works His praise declare, to Whom they all belong;

There is a voice in every star, in every breeze a song.

Sweet music fills the world abroad with strains of love and power;

The stormy sea sings praise to God, the thunder and the shower.

To God the tribes of ocean cry, and birds upon the wing;

To God the powers that dwell on high their tuneful tribute bring.

Like them, let us the throne surround, with them loud chorus raise,

While instruments of loftier sound assist our feeble praise.

Henry Ware, Jr. 1882

It's lovely to be able to put a vase on the dinner table full of fresh-cut flowers from your garden. :)

Gardenias

Hollyhocks

Snapdragons

Golden Dewdrops

Passionflower--one of the most intricately formed flowers I've ever seen...
How could anyone possibly deny the Creator when He has given us such awesome proof as this. The Lord has created everything "decently and in order." It's amazing how perfectly symmetrical this flower is, and how beautifully all of the colors coordinate. Just gorgeous!

Mulberries!

We are blessed to have a monstrous Mulberry bush/tree that produces huge, purple, sugarsweet berries all spring. Mama planted it when it as a little twig a looong time ago. Now we look forward to bags of them in the freezer every year! :o)

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 The most wonderful pie-filling thickener.

 My little helper. :)

Voila!

"And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety."

Leviticus 25:19