Summer Skies

Lovely countryside near our home.  :)

Hot Chocolate Anyone?

A local man has made many creative metal sculptures through the years - this is one of our favorites!

Collection of Memories

I enjoy old fashioned decor, and displaying things that mean something to me. 
I took the above picture in my room one day, and it makes me smile. 
The blue tea cup was a birthday gift my dad picked out; the flowers in it are the corsage I wore at a friend's wedding a few years ago. The little framed picture is a copy of my mother's parent's wedding picture.  I made the wool sheep when we lived in Vermont several years ago. The other tea cups were found at thrift stores over the years.  So many memories all together!

Consider it Joy

“Life need not be easy to be joyful. Joy is not the absence of trouble, but the presence of Christ.”

- William Vander Hoven

"Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds." 

- James 1:2

A Lady

"To me, a lady is not frilly, flouncy, flippant, frivolous and fluff-brained, but she is gentle. She is gracious. She is godly and she is giving... You and I, if we are women, have the gift of femininity.
Very often it is obscured, just as the image of God is obscured in all of us.
The more womanly we are, the more manly men will be, and the more God is glorified. As I say to you women, 'Be women. Be only women. Be real women in obedience to God.'"

- Elisabeth Elliot

God is in Control!

The Lord is Good

"Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good;

Blessed is the man who trusts in Him!

Oh, fear the Lord, you His saints!

There is no want to those who fear Him.

The young lions lack and suffer hunger;

But those who seek the Lord shall not lack any good thing."

- Psalm 34:8-10