Tuesday 4~The Four Seasons

 

Four Seasons, Four Questions

Welcome to Toni Taddeo's Tuesday 4...


1. Do you have a favorite day of the week and how about a favorite month of the year? Why?

Hmmm, favorite day of the week...since I am retired, all the days are pretty much the same. I do love Sunday, however, because we go to church and worship the Lord, sing songs of praise, have fellowship with our friends in Christ, and then usually we have some family here for lunch, which is always nice!  This past Sunday our "kids" were all here, but I didn't take one picture! Imagine that! And we had ribs, chicken, corn on the cob, salad, potatoes, rolls, and watermelon!  It was a lovely day.  So yes, Sunday is my favorite day.  

My favorite month?  Well, September is my birth month, and so that has always been a special month for me.  But right after that comes October, and I probably love the season of October even more than September. 

To quote my favorite character, "Anne of Green Gables"...

"I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.  It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn't it? " 

2. What’s the most beautiful or magical thing about each of the four seasons?

Oh goodness:

Spring: The end of winter and the beginning of new life once again. Flowers blooming, birds singing and building their nests, all of nature seems to come back to life. 

Here's some wildflowers from our walk the other day...

The Bluebirds and Cardinals have all been very active...

Summer:

Well, what can I say?  Summer tends to make me go crazy with the heat! LOL:

This was at our church Memorial Day Picnic yesterday, when it was about 90 degrees in the shade, but at least there was a nice breeze and some cloud cover...but no rain...

And thank you all for your kind and supportive comments on my post yesterday.  Staying busy and being with special people made it a much more bearable day.

Here's hubby hamming it up...

And son Benton was there too, but sadly Rose had a headache and wasn't able to go. It was definitely too hot to be outside with a headache...

One of the highlights of the day was our church family singing "America The Beautiful" together at the beginning of the picnic...

As far as the rest of summer goes...we stay indoors in the air conditioning a LOT, because of the high heat and humidity.  And although we need rain, we pray for no bad hurricanes to hit our country this summer.

Fall:  Ahhhhh, the summer fades and the air begins to change to less humidity and cooler temperatures. Our "fall" isn't as dramatic of a change here in Florida as it is further north, but still there are subtle changes and we are very grateful for them.  It is also a time when we normally try to take a little trip north to the mountains where the leaves are beautiful and the air is cool and crisp like the apples we find at the orchards there...but we are not too sure about going this fall. It's just getting too expensive, so we will see.

Winter:  I love the Christmas holiday season and all that it means, Advent, the celebration of the Birth of Christ, family time, the lights, the trees, the beauty all around.   Thankfully here in Florida, our winters are more like fall up north...cool and wonderful. We can get out more and do more.

3. Summer is coming... what does this mean in your life? How will things change, stay the same ,etc?

I think I already answered that above.  No major changes expected, but we must always be prepared for hurricanes here in Florida. When I was a child, summer was wonderful! We'd take a vacation and go up north to visit relatives and camp in the campgrounds all the way up and back through the Smoky Mountains. Those were very happy times for me as a child.  We don't do that now. I sometimes wish we could, but I don't see it happening...So mostly we stay home and try to stay cool.

4. What do you look forward to in each season?

Again, I think I already answered that in #2.   So since this post is already too long, I will leave it at that...Each season has it's own beauty and magic and wonder.  We just have to look for the beauty and enjoy it.  

I will close with this passage from Ecclesiastes chapter 3:

"1 There is a time for everything,

and a season for every activity under the heavens:

2 a time to be born and a time to die,

a time to plant and a time to uproot,

3 a time to kill and a time to heal,

a time to tear down and a time to build,

4 a time to weep and a time to laugh,

a time to mourn and a time to dance,

5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,

a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,

6 a time to search and a time to give up,

a time to keep and a time to throw away,

7 a time to tear and a time to mend,

a time to be silent and a time to speak,

8 a time to love and a time to hate,

a time for war and a time for peace.

9 What do workers gain from their toil? 10 I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. 12 I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. 13 That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God. 14 I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him."

Whatever season of life you may be in, look for the blessings and joy in life, no matter the weather or the storms in life...keep your eyes fixed on Jesus, and He will carry you through.