Some News Update and Something New!

 Thank you all for praying for my brother in law Art yesterday afternoon...thanks to many prayers, here he is arriving home from the hospital later in the day:

This is what my nephew Dave wrote on his Facebook page when he got to the hospital to check on his Dad, my brother in law Art.  

"Quick update! I won’t post the photo of his laceration but it’s about 10” long and a little over 1/2” wide. The story of what happened is even worse. He was actually hit from a guy on an E-bike. When I asked my dad what happened? He said he left the parking lot walking across the street towards the building and he said he didn’t see anything while he was in the road and he said the moment he stepped onto the sidewalk and was about to reach out for the door. He saw something out of his right peripheral and a guy on a E bike slammed into him. It knocked him backwards and he hit the concrete pillar as he was going down. He said the guy was “cruising.” he said the guy did stay and was talking to the police as he was being loaded in the ambulance. There was also another gentleman who knelt down and kept my dad talking until EMS arrived. Thankfully there is no bleeding on the brain, no swelling, and no fractures. They will probably staple him and send him on his way this afternoon. Thank you so much for all the thoughts and prayers."    

Which is exactly what they did, as you can see in the picture above!  I said we are thankful to God for protecting him, and also thankful that he has such a hard head! LOL.  This could've turned out so much worse, so we are very very thankful indeed.  Again, thank you for your prayers for Art and still also for my sister Doris as she recovers from pneumonia. I think she's getting better because she's posting pictures of flowers and birds in her garden on Facebook as usual, so that's a good sign! Praise God!

I was reading our friend Myra's post yesterday here Respice, Prospice: Today, and she was waiting for a delivery truck delivering her new dishwasher. They gave her a window of time between 8 a.m.-8 p.m.! So much for doing anything else that day!   And I started to reply in my comment to her that I was also waiting for a delivery all day, but I decided to wait and write what I was going to say in my comment to her and put it here on my own blog post because it was becoming to voluminous of a comment to put on her page! So this is what I did: I opened up a "new post" page and wrote the following so I wouldn't forget it:

"Save this for my next post...

Oh, and speaking again of deliveries, I am actually waiting on a delivery of a new camera. My old good camera keeps refusing to work, and as it was a refurbished one in the first place, I have no way to repair it. After I missed taking photos of a Baltimore Oriole this morning!!! A very rare sighting here in our area!!! I was very upset. So much so that hubby said, "Why don't you order yourself a new camera?"  I said because they are too expensive.  But he found one online that sounds a LOT like my favorite old camera, and the price is not astronomical for a new camera, and he insisted that I order it. It's a late Christmas present, he said. After I hemmed and hawed...I ordered it"

And so, later in the day it finally arrived!

And here I am in my "best outfit" (LOL), holding my new camera...

And doing what I promised I would do,

 the first picture I took was of my hubby, taking that picture of me with my camera!

There, that's more like it...Thank you, sweet hubby, for this very wonderful gift! I told him it could be Christmas, my birthday, our anniversary, and everything else for the year! He knows how much it means to me to be able to take good pictures of the birds and bees and flowers and trees and everything else that my cell phone camera can't do at a distance, and so he wanted me to have this so I can keep sharing pictures here with YOU!

Now I just have to figure out how to use all the little buttons and dials and things to make it work like I want it to...so that will be my new "hobby" for a while until I figure it all out.

Meanwhile, I went outside and started taking pictures of everything I could see. It was a very bright sunny afternoon, and so the lighting wasn't great for really good pictures at that time of day. I may have to try again this morning, and I am hoping that "Baltimore Oriole" comes back to visit so I can take his picture this time!!

Here's some weeds and flowers and things in the woods around Still Waters Pond:

That same little lonely daisy is still blooming!

This looks like a new Maple tree starting to grow!

When I came back to our yard the Sand Hill Crane family showed up for the photo shoot!

They must've heard that I needed some good subjects to photograph with my new camera! 

It was nice of them to pose for me while I tried to figure things out....

Aren't they such magnificent models?

Okay they said, enough photos...let us get something to eat!

We threw them a little bird seed in thanks for their cooperation!

Later on I tried to see how it would do at sunset. There really wasn't any "magnificent" sunset to capture on this evening, but at least I could watch the sun going down...

This is my favorite...I love how the sun looks like a star in this picture:

And with that I will close for today, or at least until after the sun comes back up this morning and I have something new to take pictures of. I'm sure going to be watching outside my "Room With a View" for that Baltimore Oriole to come back!!

Here's the words of Wisdom from God's Word that showed up today in my morning devotions:

I Thessalonians 5:16-18

"16 Rejoice always, 

17 pray without ceasing, 

18 in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you."

Amen.

Have a wonderful day my friends!