Archive for ‘January, 2012’

Measuring up?

It’s been driving me absolutely nuts! See?  They are allegedly one cup or 8 ounce measuring cups.  But do they look like one-cup measuring cups? One…

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I can see the beauty.

There’s a dilapidated old building in the woods there.  I know, it’s blurry.  I love this photo because of that.  My husband thinks I’m nuts for…

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A Sunday Drive? AKA There’s cactus and then there’s Cactus!

What’s that saying about “never promised you a rose garden?” That’s early morning sun glaring off the camera lens.  I cleaned it up with the photo…

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Sunset, Shadows, Clouds, Moon & Trees

He made the moon for the seasons; The sun knows the place of its setting.  Psalm 104:19 NASB

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A Picture, A Hat & Field Girl

I’m joining Beverly of How Sweet the Sound for Pink Saturday.  My post photo is the extracted image from a picture on my mom’s sewing room…

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Oy vey! Politics are seeping in everywhere!

January 26, 2012 – Thursday So, my husband and I were looking through some sunset photos I took yesterday.  I can’t even remember what we were…

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Rain on the Patio: A Perspective

(Click on a photo).  After drought and fire-ravaged areas in 2011, rain (even drizzles) are much appreciated. It officially rained a total of four inches over…

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My “Living” Bible

In the nondescript brown cover (that I made a hundred years ago).  My copy of The Living Bible. Yes, I carried my Bible to school.  It’s…

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Can you see it?

I bought some cherries the other day and arranged them in a variety of poses.  I wasn’t really happy with the photos . . . until…

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How often does your laundry smile at you?

Yep, that’s a “real” photo.  It’s not posed. I was doing laundry one day.   It was piled on the bed (after being washed and dried, of…

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Something to think about?

Do not revile the king even in your thoughts, or curse the rich in your bedroom, because a bird in the sky may carry your words,…

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Pink Saturday: Next Pink Saturday & My Treasures

Good Morning!  Wait much longer and it’ll be Good Day here.  Who knows what time it is when and where you drop by.  Aloha!  That works…

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Looking for the sycamore tree?

That’s the same tree, a few years later but about the same time of year as the first one.  This is actually the photo for which…

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Time Travel Thursday #80: “A hundred years ago”, explained.

I was pondering starting aGlossaryon a Page for that very term. The farther I went with the idea, the more I realized I had instead, a…

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Not that I like sticking political things on my blog . . .

Well, that’s not a mistake.  I received various emails and did some searches today about SOPA and PIPA – the bills which will be reviewed and…

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IRTB: The Wednesday Letters, by Jason F. Wright

(IRTB = I Read This Book). I have wanted to read The Wednesday Letters ever since I saw the author, Jason F. Wright, on television several…

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Blue Monday: From the Blue Archives

I’m joining Smiling Sally for Blue Monday.  The other day, I ran across this verse of mine, Circa 1984.  I’ve been thinking about it, and joining…

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Reflection

 As in water face reflects face, so the heart of man reflects man. Proverbs 27:19 NASB

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Milk, Tissues, Crackers, Candy, Behaviors

How easy it is to pick up the ways of others simply by osmosis.  Years ago when I married the first time, it was just the…

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Time Travel Thursday with Liz: Funny how confidence wanes . . .

I was making banana pudding yesterday and banging the beaters against the bowl to get the meringue off of them, when I thought twice about it. …

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My Own Odds & Ends

You know, a hundred years ago I wanted to be a gypsy. Maybe it was the Wizard of Oz that put that thought in my mind. …

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God’s Odds & Ends

. . . For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through…

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Butterfly & Blossom

Wind gently stirred, moving it on. The wind blew stronger. perhaps to brighten another’s day. After all the years have passed since I wrote those words,…

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Texas. Perspective. Thoughts.

Just shows the contrasts we get here in Central Texas. The weird thing is, at first, I couldn’t figure out where I was standing when I…

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