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Sunday, October 25, 2015

The 7 Mile Walk


My sis and I went on an adventure a couple Fridays ago, in the form of a good long walk! It was such a beautiful afternoon .... we started off on the trail around 1:30 and didn't arrive home until after 5pm .... a marvelous, if tiring journey. :o)

There's something lovely about embarking on a long walk with only your sister and autumn countryside! It was so nice that I completely spaced out and didn't start taking pictures until basically the homeward bound half of our trip. Ah, well. I still got enough pictures to make any long-suffering blog readers glad I exercised a little prudence and self-restraint and didn't post them all! ;) Here you go!


After being horrified by the number of Woolly Bears crushed by the wayside, my sister made it her mission to Save the Woollies and scooted many a one out of the paths of errant bicyclists and to safe harbors along the path. :)


Contemplating a streamlet by the way.



Lone little pine!

























The end. :)

Friday, October 16, 2015

Humbled or Humiliated

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Painful memories can be helpful if they humble us and make us more compassionate toward others. But there is a difference between being humbled and being humiliated. If our memories drag us so far down into the black pit of despair that we quit reaching forward to heaven, then we've let our memories do something that God never intended. Even after forgiving us, God is still aware of our past,  and we should remain aware of it too. But although our past is a part of the truth about us, it is not the whole truth. If we've been forgiven, that is also a part of the truth, not to mention the truth of what our future can be with God's help. That is the part of the situation that God is most interested in. So we need to adopt His perspective on our lives. We need to be concerned not only with where we've been but with where we can go.

::Excerpt from Reaching Forward, October 15::
Gary Henry

Sunday, October 11, 2015

Fall's Little Pleasures



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A homemade pumpkin spice latte on a cloudy afternoon ... life just doesn't get much better than that. ;o) 

(Especially if you have homegrown pumpkins to use as props for your blog pics!! #excitement)

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My soul waits in silence for God only;
From Him is my salvation.
He only is my rock and my salvation,
My stronghold; I shall not be greatly shaken.

Psalm 62:1-2

Friday, October 9, 2015

Autumn Joy Harvest


Hello hello! Happy October -- one of my favorite months of the whole year!! At some point each October, after my millionth expression of fall love, my family begins to roll their eyes and say, "Yes, dear, we KNOW you love fall!" Soooo .... instead of reminding them again I'm blogging about it to all of you people instead. Hah. :o)

One of my favorite autumn flowers is Autumn Joy, a sedum that is a lovely rusty color and grows pretty much anywhere with pretty much no care needed. (I cut some snips off for my tree house garden earlier in the year and planted the cuttings without even letting them root first, and with a little watering they are growing just fine. You basically have to work really hard to kill them.) We had a bush that got so huge it fell over and I really couldn't just let aaaaall those flowers go to waste, so I pruned the bush and this is what I had as a result:


A mess.


It was a smidge overwhelming. :P (Plus the fact that the bees also were after them, which was marvelous). But after some snipping and snapping (who caught the children's-literary reference??) I reduced the mess and I think it was worth it:


Because I ended up with a basket full of fall loveliness for the house!






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Happy Autumn! :o)