Welcome, Y'all!



Hello, people! Welcome to my blog, where I try my best to post my recent photography attempts and experiments. As you will presently find out, I do not claim to be a professional of any sort, but rather enjoy photography as a hobby. You probably won't find anything extraordinary or stupendously stunning, but hopefully it will bless you heart! Most of my "photographing" happens at home, around the farm, in the garden, or in different places around our little town. At any rate, I hope everything that I do and say brings honor to our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, and that you will be blessed by visiting this blog!
Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

Psalm 107:8

Saturday, April 30, 2011

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.




Tuesday, April 26, 2011

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!







Wednesday, April 6, 2011

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