The Curious Butterfly
I looked down at this bowl several weeks ago while I was washing groceries on the front porch. I thought, “Wow! That is really beautiful!” My hands were a soapy, wet mess, so I asked Ray to take a picture…
Category Creation
You Are One in a Gazillion
One day this week I walked by a window and caught a glimpse of our mimosa trees blooming in our front yard. I love to see them in bloom because they make me think of Mama Sue, my Daddy’s mother.…
A Boy with a Dream
Crater Lake is on my bucket list. In 1870 it was on young William Gladstone Steel’s bucket list, too. At some time in the past, a volcano erupted in the Cascade Mountains in southern Oregon and left behind a crater.…
Godspeed!
Our children and grandchildren have been enjoying scenes from the Kennedy Space Center and from space this weekend. Ray and I have, too. As Ray and I watched the launch on Saturday, I was thrilled to hear first one and…
Creativity, Love, and Power
Ray and I like to share window beauties with each other. He recently encouraged me to see the fog rising above the river. I had already noticed how pretty the wet blowing leaves were in the front yard during a…
God is Counting on You
Last weekend Ray and I visited a Nature Conservancy site called Washmorgan Hollow. Washmorgan Hollow is hidden away beside a road I used to travel to a self-pick blueberry farm — so hidden away that Ray and I passed the…