Friday Foto Friends is Back!

I am so happy that our friend Debbie over at Breathing in Grace has opened the link back up for our Friday Foto Friends to gather!    I hope all our friends got the message and are working on something special to link up today!  I knew about it, but was so busy yesterday that I forgot to work on my post last night, so now I have to hurry up and come up with something this morning...and I think I've already used most of my best pictures from this week in other posts. So bear with me while I go search for some good pictures to share with you.  Meanwhile...you can go over to the link for Friday Foto Friends  and see what everyone else has been doing.  But be sure to come back here and check on whatever I come up with, okay? Okay.

Now that that is settled, let me see what I can share with you today:

In our morning walk yesterday I saw this bird up in a tree, and at first I wondered if it was an eagle because of the white head, but upon closer inspection I realized it was one of the Swallow Tailed Kites that we've seen flying around overhead this past week.  (You can click on that link for more information on this interesting bird and his habits...it helped explain what we have been witnessing the past few days)

 Isn't he pretty?

 A little later I noticed that the birds kept flying around and over this tree that I could see from our kitchen window...and there is one of the birds sitting in the tree...presumably this is where they are building a nest...

I hope so, because I can watch them from the kitchen while washing dishes and cooking.  However, I need to look through binoculars or the zoom lens of my camera to see them this close...

I could hear them calling to each other when I stepped outside and looked up at the sky...At first I could only see three of them, but after watching for awhile I realized there were actually four chasing each other around and around...

 It was fun to watch. They are so graceful as they glide up and around, swooping low and back up again like a beautiful dance. 

It's still a little too early this morning for me to go check and see if they are still out there...but maybe later when we take our walk we will see them again.  I'll be sure to give you updates!

Now for something else:

 We also walked to the neighborhood "pond" during our morning walk, and this White Egret was looking for his breakfast...I'm sure he's sitting at a bountiful breakfast buffet right there in the middle of that marshy area of the pond.

Back to our house...I am just marveling at the beauty of our wisteria blossoms this year!  They have been so lush and beautiful!

So I will leave it at that.  I thought perhaps I could run around outside this morning and capture some new pictures, but it is a little cooler out than I realized, about 43 this morning, which is cool for this time of year...and I'm just waking up and don't need to get myself quite that awake just yet!! LOL.

Speaking of being awake...as anyone else had a difficult time adjusting to the time change this past week?  I know I have, and every morning I find that I just want to stay in bed a little bit longer because it is still dark outside and my body clock refuses to adapt!!!  I do wish they'd leave the time alone and let us old folks enjoy our beauty sleep! LOL.

Here's some thoughts from God's Word to think about this morning as we wake up:

Romans 13:10-12

10.  "Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

11.  And do this, knowing the time,

that now it is high time to awake out of sleep;

for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.

12.  The night is far spent, the day is at hand.

Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness,

and let us put on the armor of light."

In thinking about our neighbors, last week I asked you to pray for one of our neighbors.  Thank you for praying.  Our dear neighbor, April, peacefully passed on to be with the Lord not long after we prayed for her.  Thankfully her loved ones were able to be with her as she passed.  So, thank you for praying. It was her time to go meet the Lord, and I believe our prayers helped her to go in peace. Now may the Lord give comfort to her loved ones and dear friends.


Okay, with those thoughts in mind, let us go on over and visit with our friends at Breathing in Grace for our Friday Foto Friends re-gathering! Thank you so much, Debbie, for bringing us back together again. We've missed you!!!