Friday Foto Friends: Room With A View

Yes, it's September...we've been discussing that for several days now.  

Since it's Friday Foto Friends day, I might as well share a few more things from September!

Like this September teacup!

(and that lovely tea towel that was a gift from one of our blogging friends who visited here in person last year...she knows who she is!)

Sadly, I don't remember for sure who gave me this tea cup. It was probably a birthday gift one year...and I enjoy using it all month long!

(if you happen to be reading this post and you know that you gave me this cup, please refresh my memory! I'm getting forgetful in my old age).

Time to change the calendars...and this one is my TeaTimes Calendar.

Yes, that is a quail tea set. Very unusual!

And this is my other calendar by the artist John Sloane. I love his artwork. Wouldn't you love to be sitting there under that weeping willow tree with that lovely view and having a picnic with someone you love? Love that red car too! There is so much to love in this picture...the collie dog...the red barn...

You can see that it hangs on the wall next to my desk and window to the back porch...

My "Room with a View"

(another gift from that dear friend who visited last year!)

Since we put the roof over the deck I can now open the blinds on this window and enjoy the view all day long. I used to have to close them most of the day because the sun was too bright and hot.

Hopefully I will be able to see more views like these from my open window in my 

"room with a view"

This Great Blue Heron who was fishing for his supper out in Still Waters Pond

Now I can sit here at my desk as I write to you and give you an update on the weather moment by moment.  Earlier it was bright and sunny and hot. 93 degrees at 6:30 pm! (And we still went and took a walk...the heat index was 106! Not my idea of a pleasant walk) (This was written Thursday evening)

Now it is pouring down rain and the wind is very fierce.  There have also been bright flashes of lightning and extremely loud thunder:

And ten minutes later the sky is all golden:

(And the temperature has dropped down to 81 degrees!)

This is how the skies looked last night:

And this is how they looked early this morning when we first woke  up! There was a full moon shining on the pond! It was extremely muggy and warm this morning...the air was heavy and thick with humidity, but that September moon made me smile.

All these views from my open window in my "room with a view" remind me of these verses and the song that came from them:

Lamentations 3:22-23 NKJV

22. "Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed,

Because His compassions fail not.

23. They are new every morning;

Great is Your faithfulness."

Won't you sing along with me?

Great Is Thy Faithfulness

"Great is Thy faithfulness, " O God my Father,

There is no shadow of turning with Thee;

Thou changest not, Thy compassions, they fail not

As Thou hast been Thou forever wilt be.

"Great is Thy faithfulness!" "Great is Thy faithfulness!"

Morning by morning new mercies I see;

All I have needed Thy hand hath provided—

"Great is Thy faithfulness, " Lord, unto me!

Summer and winter, and springtime and harvest,

Sun, moon and stars in their courses above,

Join with all nature in manifold witness

To Thy great faithfulness, mercy and love.

"Great is Thy faithfulness!" "Great is Thy faithfulness!"

Morning by morning new mercies I see;

All I have needed Thy hand hath provided—

"Great is Thy faithfulness, " Lord, unto me!

Pardon for sin and a peace that endureth,

Thine own dear presence to cheer and to guide;

Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow,

Blessings all mine, with ten thousand beside!

"Great is Thy faithfulness!" "Great is Thy faithfulness!"

Morning by morning new mercies I see;

All I have needed Thy hand hath provided—

"Great is Thy faithfulness, " Lord, unto me!

Amen.

Have a blessed and beautiful September day!