“ … be yourself – not your idea of what you think somebody else’s idea of yourself should be.” ~Henry David Thoreau
Cardinals
nature
Light from behind the clouds
“Let God’s promises shine on your problems.” ~Corrie Ten Boom
Along the path
“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
“Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I’d say our afternoon just got booked solid!” ~Bill Watterson
Honey bee
” … even the insects in my path are not loafers, but have their special errands.” ~Henry David Thoreau
Passing through
“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
Flowering crabapple
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
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
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
“Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.” ~Virgil A. Kraft
walking on a country road 