Light from behind the clouds

April 20, 2015 / Rebecca / 1 Comment

“Let God’s promises shine on your problems.” ~Corrie Ten Boom

Along the path

April 17, 2015 / Rebecca / 3 Comments

“God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through Life with our eyes shut.” ― Alexander Graham Bell

Trickle of water

April 14, 2015 / Rebecca / 1 Comment

“Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I’d say our afternoon just got booked solid!” ~Bill Watterson

Honey bee

April 10, 2015 / Rebecca / Leave a comment

” … even the insects in my path are not loafers, but have their special errands.” ~Henry David Thoreau

Passing through

April 8, 2015 / Rebecca / 1 Comment

“Why, then, do we dread the clouds which now darken our sky? True, for a while they hide the sun, but the sun is not quenched; He will shine out again before long. Meanwhile those black clouds are filled with rain; and the blacker they are, the more likely they are to yield plentiful showers. How can we have rain without clouds?” ~C. H. Spurgeon

Flowering crabapple

April 7, 2015 / Rebecca / Leave a comment

Flowering crabapple

“For You, O Lord, have made me glad by Your work; at the deeds of Your hands I joyfully sing.” Psalm 92:4

Eastern phoebe

March 31, 2015 / Rebecca / Leave a comment

A little bird, within a tangled wood,
Sang sweetly to the forest solitude;
From matin hour to vesper time it sang —
Until the leafy woodland spaces rang
With such a chorus of ecstatic glee
That all the world seemed pulsing harmony …
~Robert Frost

Higher ground

March 25, 2015 / Rebecca / 1 Comment

Reelfoot Lake and the Mississippi River were at flood stage this past weekend. This had some of the little critters scrambling for a dry spot on higher ground.

Flooded campground at Reelfoot Lake

Duck on a campground picnic table

Turtles along the Mississippi

Fox squirrel

Mississippi River overflowing

Turtles along the Mississippi

My heart has no desire to stay
Where doubts arise and fears dismay;
Tho some may dwell where these abound,
my pray’r, my aim, is higher ground.

~Johnson Oatman, Jr.

Maple blossoms

March 25, 2015 / Rebecca / 2 Comments

“Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.” ~Virgil A. Kraft

Great Blue Heron

March 24, 2015 / Rebecca / 6 Comments

These heron were doing some serious fishing out on flooded farm land near the Mississippi River. They crept along slowly … watching … listening … and then striking with lightening speed. Each strike was generally rewarded with a tiny silver fish.