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God's Creation

Today was absolutely gorgeous. The temperature was perfect, the sun was shining and I took a walk to see what I could capture.....

This is the neatest blue.....

Our Mock Orange Tree is BRILLIANT this year.

A Swamp Iris

Multi Flora Rose....can't you just smell them??? I wish I could find this scent bottled!

This is the color version of the flower I had posted on last week's photo contest.

For my own amusement...and even more truer today...which is not amusing.

I love the moon up there to the left of the tail.....I am on the ground taking the picture...not in the air.

....and this would be Pilgrim, our latest addition. His Latin name is "Myotis KittyKatus."
He just has that little bat face.

Please visit HERE and read the pulse Amelia has posted...AND the article she links to.
Arghhhh......doesn't any one else see this too???!!!! Have we become so apathetic and do dumbed down to where we really are "sheeple" of the USA???? and not WE THE PEOPLE who remember what our forefathers did and said...remember the blood shed for our LIBERTY!!! Get out of the censored text books students....read the real thing...dig in and learn the TRUTH before it is too late. Am I all alone in seeing all the red flags?

This week's photo contest is going to be very different!
Please check out the posters this time...a pretty neat idea.
You can vote here -----> iliveinmycamera
This time last year....

Our family was hurting big time a year ago and we had a vintage 1940's bicycle here that needed a complete stripping of paint and a complete over haul...new tires, new grips...the works. It was our "therapy" project. My son, daughter, husband and Grandpa Joe worked their tails off to get this bike restored for the WWII weekend we participate in. They pulled it off in less than three weeks. That was the beginning of our journey to healing....which takes a long time and I guess you just have to give it time and allow the Lord to work in your life however he sees fit.

So this "new" old bike will always remind us of how if you put your mind to it...you can overcome the seemingly impossible. We found the bike at an antique mall for very cheap but someone had slopped on off white paint..all over it. Now it is a restored blue...very close to the original color which we found when we took the handle bars out. Time...it takes time....scrapping..chipping...grinding....shining...painting..oiling......
Just like the grape vines need pruning to grow fruit more abundantly.
Why should we be any different?

Before

After

I have a photo posted on iliveinmycamera's contest this week. You must go see the beautiful flowers posted in black and white. This is the second part of the contest...mine was not up last week but it is this week. I cannot tell you which is mine but please vote for your favorite!
Oooooo...I won the photo contest!!!!...there were only three of us but I think we all had fun.
Thank you to all who voted!

Last week I was in Lancaster County and took some really fun shots and thought I would post some of them here. It was laundry day and plowing day and the subject for the contest that week was Motion...so here are some of my motion pictures.....

Wind Mill Really Spinning...

Slow Motion

Whoa!

Leaning in for the Turn

Blowing In The Wind

Yesterday I learned how to change the front low beam light bulb in my van...whew...those Kia makers sure know how to make it "interesting." But now I know and all is well and I am not longer a padiddle(one headlighter)...however you spell it.

There will be a new contest up this week, posted Monday morning sometime....all in black and white...artistic flowers. I think you all will enjoy seeing these...especially you gardeners! Here is the link. http://iliveinmycamera.xanga.com/

Have a blessed week!
Back in the late 1970's I worked for two summers at a place called Camp Merry Heart just outside of Hackettstown, NJ. It is in northwestern NJ and in the mountains with lots of trees and fresh air. I was a counselor the first year and the second year I was a counselor and the nature lady who ran nature classes. The camp is for handicapped children and adults ranging from mild disorders to severe handicaps. Those were the best two summers of my whole life. I was in my early twenties and a sophomore and junior in college. No where else had I ever learned to die to myself and be the arms and legs for another. I was there from the beginning of June until the end of August. Every two weeks a new group of campers arrived. We had two weeks of adults then two weeks of little ones then two weeks of children from a home in the inner city and then two weeks of mixed handicaps...ranging from mentally handicapped to all sorts of physical handicapped. Everyone loved being there. I treasure those years. There was barely any time to devote to self...it was the perfect thing for me and for all the other counselors. It was all about bringing joy into the lives of the campers and they did show their joy. I would love to get in contact with anyone who worked there through the years and I do wish I would be able to find some of the campers I had under my charge. I loved them all so dearly. Have you ever heard of this place or have been there to work or as a camper? It is still there.
I saw this video on you tube and I was so thrilled to see this tribute. I hope you are too.

Also...the new photos will be up today on iliveinmycamera. The subject this week is "broken or busted."

Duckies in profile pic...are from a little visit to a little place my family took me to for Mother's Day....They were soooo much fun to watch!
It is MAY???....how did THAT happen?

First of all I want to thank any of you who voted on the liveinmycamera weekly photo contest. Didn't I go and tie for first place along with Kathleen. Yay!!!!! Congratulations Kathleen!

I've said this before but here I go again.....when the new assignment comes out it is just like a treasure hunt, trying to look for and find photo opportunities for that week's topic. You do not have to have a fancy camera at all...just follow your instincts and look for that shot...or make that shot happen. But the point I am trying to make is that it is a nice challenge...for me anyway. Anyone can enter and the more the merrier. This upcoming week's assignment is Motion.....it should be very interesting. I know I had fun with it.
*EDIT* The new pictures will be up Monday by noon EST. The subject is MOTION.
Ooooo...they are going to be good!

Through someone here on Xanga, Kelli, I think it was you, I found a video of a young gal, Deborah Drapper, in England who is so wise for her age and such a delight. You can see the video here and this is the link to her blog. She is an encouragement to me and I hope she is for you too.

Now, finding the time to do everything...how does one do that? My garden is screaming for me to pay some attention to it and I gently holler back..."I AM TRYING!!!"
There are some new herbs to plant and some pretty little flowers to put into containers and such. This week looks like rain all week but I will try to get in there between the rain drops. The guys have been trying to squeeze fishing in too. This is my husband's therapy after some long hard days at work and some other pressures of life. It usually de-stresses him and he comes home a little lighter. He can spend quiet time talking with the Lord and just "be." Like father like son, as Will does the same thing. They do not get to go a lot but are very blessed to have some great fishing spots near to our home. They throw everything back....very gentle to the fishies....they never use barbs.
Often, they don't catch anything...it is just the being out in the woods or by the stream listening to all of nature. Last evening my husband said there were so many different birds singing at once that he could not even distinguish any one bird's song.
I guess that moment may not have been too relaxing!

I've got a question. I am in the market for a sewing machine and fell for one and wondered if any of you sewers out there might be able to share opinions about this one or if you have one, what do you think? It is a Elna Q6600. I know Elna is Swiss made and recently owned now by Janome. My daughter has a Janome which she loves but this Elna has stitches on it that no one else has or can share. It is not high end quilting which is fine with me. I just want to make things and create new things from old things. Any comments regarding this are most welcome!

Sad, sad news from my garden..I almost forgot to mention this. I was weeding a bit on the outside edge of my garden fence and just about grabbed hold of and actually touched...the tail of a snake! Good grief! What was THAT doing there??? I'll tell you what it was doing....it was eating Francis, my garden toad!!! It was too late to save him...he was 1/4 of the way in the snake's mouth and bleeding. So I did all I could do...I got my camera. It sure did not take long for that snake to ....what do you call that...he wasn't chewing....ummmmm....swallowing maybe??? I have never seen this in person so I watched. I have a fantastic picture but not sure you all want to actually see it? Will was kind enough to scoop the snake up for me and relocate it across the road into some woods. He can go eat someone elses' toads! To my knowledge it was a garter snake...but unlike any I have seen around before. There was one suggestion to chop it's head off and I for a moment considered it thinking...well...will Francis then pop out? But..on further pondering thought that absurd and perhaps I watched too many cartoons when I was little.
So....the snake is alive and well and Francis provided him nourishment just as the Lord intended.

Till next time......

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