Last weekend...

"God does not send strange flowers every year.
When the spring winds blow o'er the pleasant places,

The same dear things lift up the same fair faces,

The violet is here."

--Adeline Train Whitney

This tiny violet is one I started from seed this year.

"Praise ye the Lord, the Almighty, the King of Creation...

O my soul praise Him, for He is thy health and Salvation."

"Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way,

Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold."

--James Lowell

The guys are putting up a new fence for our steer, Ferdinand.

"Work, and thou wilt bless the day
Ere the toil be done;
They that work not, can not pray,
Can not feel the sun.

God is living, working still,
All things work and move;
Work, or lose the power to will,
Lose the power to love."

--John Sullivan Dwight



Unusual leaves!

Raspberry bloom

"Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Luke 12:27"

"I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things." Isaiah 45:7

Taking a family walk to admire the new fence!

We stop by the chickens and admire them also!

Our wonderful Dad!