Thursday, May 28, 2009

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Mom's and My Garden

My Flower Garden

This is my garden before I planted.

I got my tools.



And my flowers.







Then I planted.















So Pretty




Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Birds
























Cupcakes!

Sophie and I made cupcakes for the home school group picnic on Sunday.







Thursday, May 14, 2009

Psalm 8



O LORD, our Lord,
How majestic is Your name in all the earth,
Who have displayed Your splendor
above the heavens!
From the mouth of infants and nursing babe
You have established strength
Because of Your adversaries,
To make the enemy and the revengeful cease.
When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have ordained;
What is man that You take thought of him,
And the son of man that You care for him?
Yet You have made him a little lower than God,
And You crown him with glory and majesty!
You make him to rule over the works of Your hands;
You have put all things under his feet,
All sheep and oxen,
And also the beasts of the field,
The birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea,
Whatever passes through the paths of the seas.
O LORD, our Lord,
How majestic is Your name in all the earth!


~NASB

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Spring Written All Over It




Spring! I just love spring. It's not too cold and not too hot.












































I always like to wake up and hear the birds. When the birds were just coming back, I woke up one morning and heard them and smiled sleepily and thought, "that's nice" and fell back on my pillow to sleep a little more.

To a Butterfly

I've watched you now a full half-hour;
Self-poised upon that yellow flower
And, little Butterfly! indeed
I know not if you sleep or feed.
How motionless!--not frozen seas
More motionless! and then
What joy awaits you, when the breeze
Hath found you out among the trees,
And calls you forth again!


This plot of orchard-ground is ours;
My trees they are, my Sister's flowers;
Here rest your wings when they are weary;
Here lodge as in a sanctuary!
Come often to us, fear no wrong;
Sit near us on the bough!
We'll talk of sunshine and of song,
And summer days, when we were young;
Sweet childish days, that were as long
As twenty days are now.


STAY near me--do not take thy flight!
A little longer stay in sight!
Much converse do I find in thee,
Historian of my infancy!
Float near me; do not yet depart!
Dead times revive in thee:
Thou bring'st, gay creature as thou art!
A solemn image to my heart,
My father's family!


Oh! pleasant, pleasant were the days,
The time, when, in our childish plays,
My sister Emmeline and I
Together chased the butterfly!
A very hunter did I rush
Upon the prey:--with leaps and springs
I followed on from brake to bush;
But she, I love her, feared to brush
The dust from off its wings.


~William Wordsworth~ (1770-1850).

Spring Flowers





my mom's "black" tulip








phlox

first Goldfinch of the spring





at our window birdfeeder




Toothless Joe

Does this look comical or what!?!