{ Friday Foto Friends #123 }

Where in the world did the last week go? I can't believe I've not posted anything since last Friday's Friday Foto Friends.  My blogging seems to have been somewhat put on the back burner with so many other things going on around here lately. HOPEfully, I can get back to a more regular schedule soon.

In the meantime.....

look what built a nest in a nearby tree.

Yes, that's a hawk.

I dug out my better camera but the fotos still aren't the best quality.   I've been fascinated watching this bird of prey get up off the eggs to stretch her wings and reposition herself.  

  

Thanks so much to everybody who's so faithful to link up here each week.  I'll try my best to visit each of you sometime over the weekend.

Happy Friday!

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{ SONday Scriptures }

I recently bought myself a little gardenia bush for only $7.  Because we planted it in an area of our yard that we're newly landscaping, one of the blooms got a bit dirty so I picked it to enjoy the fragrance.  I laid it up on an old rusty wagon wheel to take a picture of it and felt God speaking to my heart through this simple little blossom.

I Corinthians 6:20

For ye are bought with a price: 

therefore glorify God in your body, 

and in your spirit, which are God's.

I bought this little flower with $$$$.  

But, I was bought with a price that I could never afford, nor  deserved, the shed blood of Jesus Christ.

I Corinthians 15:53

 For our dying bodies must be transformed into bodies that will never die;

 our mortal bodies must be transformed into immortal bodies.

This flower smells heavenly, but it's not a fragrance that I could stand to smell continually.  

Some day I'll have a new body that WILL be able to contain all the joy and honor and praise and glory that I'll sing to HIM!

1 Samuel 16:7  

But the Lord said to Samuel, 

“Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. 

For the Lord sees not as man sees: 

man looks on the outward appearance, 

but the Lord looks on the heart.”
 

This gorgeous white flower has some dirty spots on it and some would think that takes away from it's beauty.  But, I was dirty with sin when our precious Heavenly Father saw something beautiful in me and drew me to Him.

I can't help but wonder how many things God has tried to teach me and I've been too busy to look and see and feel and understand.  As I grow older, I'm trying to slow down a bit and take more time to just BREATHE in HIM!

HOPE everybody has an awesomely blessed SONday!

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{ Friday Foto Friends #82 }

Not a clear picture but look at my little chipmunk  friend who visits me when I sit on the front porch.

(pay no attention to the unfinished landscaping - it's a work in progress)

The wisteria "tree" is blooming again.

This makes twice this spring that it's bloomed.

It's hard to get a really good pic of the entire tree. 

First harvests from our little garden.

I believe the mockingbird babies will be leaving the nest soon.  There are actually four of them and I don't see how they all fit in this nest other than they're kinda piled on top of one another.

Isn't it amazing how God designs His creatures?

I'm sure this moth was made to look like it has huge eyes as some sort of defense.....

simply awesome!

That's it for today.

HOPE everybody has a great weekend! 

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{ Friday Foto Friends #82 }

Friday's ALWAYS seem to roll around really fast, but this week has absolutely flown by.  
I really didn't take a lot of fotos this week but here's my offering for today.....

Thistle and bumblebee.....

I took the long route to Jefferson City yesterday and captured this barn.....

And, this one -  would love to have some of that old barn wood.....

And, I'm pretty sure this is our last nest of precious little birdies. 

What a blessing it's been to watch these little creatures this spring.

Not the clearest or best pictures I've ever taken, but.....

okay, no excuses.

HOPEfully, I'll do better next week!

Thanks so much for joining in today.

HOPE everybody has a great weekend.

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{ Friday Foto Friends #81 }

Y'all, I almost thought I'd be sharing pics of snow today because it's been COLD around my neck of the woods.  Okay, cold is an exaggeration but the temps this week have been nothing like you'd expect for the month of May. All day yesterday, it only got to around 66 degrees and with the wind it was sweater weather once again.  

So, here's my offering for today.....

A big "hen" and lots of little "chicks".

These originally came from my paternal Grandmother.....

we called her Mammie!

I know you're tired of all of my birdie pics by now, but this should be the last nest full.  These are mockingbirds, not robins, though.  It's not a very clear pic because the little fellows were moving thinking I was their Momma and gonna feed them some yummy worms! 

My lilies are bursting into bloom.  

I've told y'all before that we don't live where I can get good pics of the sunset, so I had to go on our back porch, raise the blinds, tiptoe, stand on a ladder, then stand on my head.....

no, I'm just kidding.....

but, it really is difficult to get a good view from our house. 

This was the sky one morning on my walk.

(Yes....I'm trying to keep it up....yay, me!)

Look at this bloom!  Mercy, it's gorgeous and HUGE. No, it's not in our yard but the garden center at Lowe's.  And, for close to $40, it stayed in the garden center at Lowe's!  ;-)

This just made me smile.  I was sitting in the car waiting on Pappy to get some blood work done and glanced over to the side of the doctor's office and saw this "face"!

Another sky pic..... 

And, you know I rarely post pictures of myself.  Why are we girls like that, though?  So, against my better thinking, here's a selfie I took yesterday to show my sweet friend, Stephanie, a picture of the owlie scarf she gave me recently.....

unfiltered so you get to see ALL of my wrinkles!

That's it for today, sweet Friends.

HOPE everybody has a great Memorial Day weekend!

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{ Good Senses }

Laying in bed early one morning this week I thought I heard a noise so I opened my eyes to hear better.  Do you do that, too? Think you can hear better, even in the dark, if you're eyes are wide open.  This got me to thinking about how often I fail to hear the still small voice of the Lord speaking to me because I'm "blinded" by the things going on around me.  I'm letting too many things "of this world" occupy my mind and heart instead of filling myself with "MORE" of Him!  Maybe this is why my blog has been neglected and I've failed to post like I once did.

Hmmmm.....

food for thought!

HOPE everybody has a terrific Thursday!

(Y'all, yes I'm a bit obsessed with these little guys/gals. They're about 11 days old in this foto and oh, what a blessing it's been to watch them hatch and grow in such a short amount of time. God is so good.)

{ SONday Scripture }

What a difference a week makes!

May 13, 2017

May 20, 2017

Psalm 96:1-2

Sing a new song to the Lord!
    Let the whole earth sing to the Lord!
  Sing to the Lord; praise his name.
    Each day proclaim the good news that He saves.

HOPE your SONday is full of blessings!

{ Friday Foto Friends #80 }

There seems to be a theme with my fotos this week.....close-ups!

HOPE everybody has a great weekend!

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{ Friday Foto Friends #79 }

Y'all,  I really thought I wasn't going to have fotos to share this week, but then I went kinda crazy yesterday taking pics!  

This has been a busy week.  Our kiddos have been camping all week so Pappy and I were the designated caretakers for their animals.  And, my brother and sis have been on vacation, too, so we checked on their kitties a few times.  And,  I had to take my Momma to the dentist to have two teeth pulled.

(by the way, Brother, if you're reading this and you should decide to get rid of Fuzz, 
PLEASE let me be the first to know!)

So, here goes with an overload of pics (as usual).....

These were taken at my brother and sis's house.

They grow some beautiful flowers.

This rose bush came from a cutting at my Mamaw's house and is probably at least 150 years old because it was part of the old home place.....

This rose is in our yard and I've shared pics of it in the past.    

Pappy took this pic of freshly hatched baby robins underneath our back deck.....

My froggy friend who always scares me by jumping when I turn the water hose on.....

All of these pics are part of the animals that belong to our kiddos.  

I failed to get a pic of the two bunnies.....

I had to tell a couple of hens "excuse me" when I opened the lid to retrieve eggs and they weren't finished.....

Fresh eggs....yummy!!!

I'll leave you with this picture my brother sent me of the sunrise at the beach.  

It's been over 10 years since we've been to the beach, 

so I have to live vicariously through others.....

LOL!

Thanks for sticking with me through this really long line of fotos!

And, thanks for bearing with the new linky as we worked out the kinks last week.  

I think it's going to be a lot better.  

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HOPE everybody has a great Mother's Day weekend!

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