“Little by little, the bird builds its nest.” ~Haitian Proverb
Diligence
spring
Bearded Iris
The town of Dresden, in Northwest Tennessee, has an Iris Festival on the first weekend in May. Part of the festival includes a flower show. Below are some photos from this year’s flower show as well as some of my favorite iris from around the area.
“A flower’s appeal is in its contradictions — so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance, so small in size yet big in beauty, so short in life yet long on effect.” ~Terri Guillemets
Storm off to the north
“I love the smell of rain and growing things.” ~Serina Hernandez
Fragrant blooms
“My garden, with its silence and pulses of fragrance that come and go on the airy undulations, affects me like sweet music. Care stops at the gates, and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.” ~Alexander Smith
A cow and her calf
“There are no perfect parents and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way.” ~Dave Williams
Breakfast!
“Oh, if you’re a bird, be an early bird
And catch the worm for your breakfast plate.
If you’re a bird, be an early bird –
But if you’re a worm, sleep late.”
~Shel Silverstein
Hummingbird on a Weigela shrub
“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” ~Mother Teresa
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
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.
walking on a country road 