Friday Foto Friends...A Special Journey-Updated for my records...

Howdy Friday Foto Friends!  Another busy week has just flown right by...and it has been filled with a lot of good things, some interesting things, and some great times with loved ones and friends. I already told you about our wonderful Mother's Day weekend visits HERE in my "Thankfulness Journal".

Well today (Thursday) we took another trip to visit with some very special friends who live a couple of hours away from us.  You might remember these dear friends from our visit with them last August... Click Here for "A Day Spent With Special Friends"   .  Since that time things have not been so wonderful for them. Our dear friend Howard was diagnosed with colon cancer this past winter, and he has been suffering quite a bit for the past few months.  We've wanted to go visit for some time, but there never seemed to be a good time for them, due to the side effects of this cancer itself.  However, we knew we couldn't keep putting it off, so today we ventured south to visit...traveling through intermittent rain, but not bad enough to cause any problems.  I did not take any pictures while we were with our friends today, but we spent every minute just visiting and appreciating the wonderful friendship that we have shared for about forty years.  When God blesses you with true Christian friends who have been there for you through good times and bad, you find it hard to see them struggling with such health issues and feel so helpless to do anything to help. We did pray together and that is the best thing we can ever do.

So now, on a brighter note, I do have a few pictures to share from our actual trip along the country road today...

We "flew" past this old red caboose rather quickly, and I wasn't even sure if I'd captured a picture at all, so was delighted to see that it did turn out pretty good...Not sure what is being done with it...but I always love anything to do with trains, so was happy to see this...

All along the road I kept seeing these beautiful wild phlox and other wildflowers, and I finally convinced hubby to pull off the road and let me take a few pictures.  I was hoping to also get pictures of the many little white and yellow butterflies that were flying all over these flowers, but they were moving too quickly for me to get any pictures of them...so just imagine little butterflies flitting from flower to flower:

This patch of wildflowers was right next to a huge big field of vegetables...yellow squash, corn, and other stuff I couldn't determine...but it sure looked healthy and green!  So wonderful to see!!

Aren't these wildflowers gorgeous?  Our God is so awesome...

On the other side of the road were these yellow wildflowers, sorry for the window reflection, but you get the idea...also you can see the railroad tracks running alongside the road.

If you looked at the link I posted above about our Day Spent with Special Friends (you could click this link as well), you will see that my dear friend Evelyn had done some very special things for me on that day last year...i.e.; she restored//salvaged a beautiful old quilt that my hubby's grandmother had made for us as a wedding gift...and I wanted her to see how I was using it now in our guest room:

Yes, this is a different quilt from the wedding ring quilt featured last week HERE (Welcome Guest), but I wanted to use it here as an alternative. The original squares on this quilt are still rather fragile to be used regularly due to the age of the fabric used, but it will serve very nicely as a "nap quilt".

I also wanted Evelyn to see that I am now using the beautiful art/plaque she created, using some of the scraps from this quilt...The antique picture in the center are some "borrowed ancestors"...no one we know, but this is just an art creation. However, I do have plans to insert an old picture of my hubby's grandmother in this space as soon as I can make a good copy of it...then it will represent her as the creator of the original quilt.

UPDATED ON 5-20-18

 I wanted to add the following pictures to update the "art/plaque" that my friend Evelyn created for me last year.  She had suggested that I should replace the picture with "Nanny Martin", the creator of that quilt, and add something that belonged to her to the plaque. So I did that today, and here are the results:

This is a picture of "Nanny Martin", possibly not long after she was married (at the age of 15 in the year 1912.)

I added the little pin with the clear aqua stone that you see on the bottom corner of her picture. That belonged to her.  Also I added the larger key, which I believe came from her house. The fabric pieces surrounding her picture are scraps from this quilt that she made.

I guess we have come to "The End" of today's pictorial display.

Here's three little deer running away from the scene of the crime last evening...

they had come searching for my petunia plants and couldn't find them...

Someone (Annie from Cottage by the Sea) said I should name the deer "Petunia"...so that is what I shall call these little rascally deer from now on. They all look the same, so they will all just be called "Petunia"

Now let's escape over to Deb's place at Breathing In Grace and see what our other Friday Foto Friends have been up to!!  Oops! I just saw that Deb is unable to host our gathering tomorrow....I hope she is okay...we will miss her this week.  So, I guess we are on our own...I may as well go ahead and post this tonight and you will see it tomorrow when you wake up!

"You will show me the path of life;

In Your presence is fullness of joy;

At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore."

Psalm 16:11

Praying for dear friends tonight...many with serious illness...

Praying for those who have difficult family situations that are hard to deal with...

Praying for peace in our nation and world...

Praying for our President and our leaders...

And Thanking the Lord for good friends...

Amen.