Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “Flowers”
“Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.” ~John Harrigan We built a fence this morning. Well, we put it together anyway. Some years ago after we built a room over our old cistern and added a deck to the house, my husband, sweet man that his is, decided to make me a flowerbed running along part of …
It’s first Sunday Hiker Devotional Day. In the spring, hiking in the fields and woods is close to perfect. The grass is sprouting and turning the winter brown world fresh and green. The delicate wood anemones and twin leaf wildflowers pop up through last fall’s carpet of leaves and bloom at the first kiss of the spring sunshine. Walking through …
Once upon a time several years ago, I think before my first inspirational novel, Scent of Lilacs, was published, I played with the idea of writing a book of devotions for the casual hiker. I hoped to come up with fifty-two, one a week. Devotional Thoughts for Hikers. Well, I might have needed a better title than that. I wrote a dozen …
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life. (Unknown) I had great fun at the ACFW Conference. That’s the American Christian Fiction Writers Conference. The ACFW is an organization that promotes Christian fiction and helps writers, both published and those hoping to be published, find ways to improve their writing to entice readers into their fictional worlds. This week …
“What a lonely place it would be to have a world without a wildflower!” ―Roland R Kemler If you have been hanging around here long or follow me on my Facebook page, you already know that I like spotting wildflowers on my walks here on the farm with my dog, Frankie. While I like to stop and get closer looks …
Music comes from an icicle as it melts, to live again as spring water. ~Henry Williamson Spring officially arrives in five days. Usually here in Kentucky we are enjoying spring like weather a week or two before the calendar declares it so. But this year we had those one or two weeks in February. Very unseasonable warmth with May and June …
I sent the prizes out for my recent giveaway, but that doesn’t mean I can’t share a few more of your gardening stories. I always enjoy reading your stories and each time one of you mentioned a favorite flower, I was right there with you seeing that beautiful bloom or taking in the scent. It was like a walk through …
My spring giveaway is finished. It was fun hearing about all your favorite flowers. Some favorites were hardy varieties easy to grow like daffodils, sunflowers, tulips, iris, sweet peas and columbine. Sometimes the flowers were the kind Mother Nature plants and tends, like field daisies, Dutchman’s Breeches, honeysuckle, and violets you find out in your grass lawns. We had the …
“If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a lack of flowers.” ~Doug Larson No shortage of those daisies around here! I’m talking about ox-eye daisies like these that jump up all over the place to cheer up a field or a roadside ditch. They are sometimes called field daisies, common daisies, dog daisies …
“But kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.” (Barbara Kingsolver, Pigs in Heaven) Today is Mother’s Day. A day when Moms get taken out to eat or maybe their husbands or children cook for them. Flower shops …