Good Morning Friday Foto Friends! Thought I'd start out with the sunset from Thursday night, since that is when I am actually writing this. I just came back inside from watching this sunset, and if you look carefully you can see "Father Goose" is standing along the shore of Still Waters Pond, watching the sunset with me.
Of course, he is really diligently standing guard watching over his lady love "Mother Goose", who is still faithfully sitting on the nest over on the island. I truly hope there will be some baby geese sometime soon. They've both been very diligent and vigilant about keeping intruders away from the pond and especially the nest.
Sometimes possible intruders fly in from up above:
If you recall, we had a group of Great Blue Herons land in these trees on the island a week or so ago, and I thought they were going to build nests there. But "Father Goose" was very strong in his territorial rights and drove them away. This one heron came back a couple of mornings ago and landed in the tree above the nest, and "Father Goose" honked and honked and flew at the heron, and soon Mr. Heron just up and flew away. I guess he got the message that he is not welcome here.
Back to the sunset...it truly was beautiful...
And Father Goose was faithful to watch with me to the end...
Okay, moving on to something different:
While taking our walk yesterday morning I stumbled across this huge "monster" in the woods...
And before I knew it, it had jumped right out and grabbed me and tangled me all up and was holding me captive...
It was quite a harrowing experience and I was extremely terrified, as you can see...
Thankfully this tall grey super hero came and rescued me and pulled me out to safety:
Here I am...just a shadow of my former self after being so scared...LOL. But so happy to be walking with my rescuer.
That kind of reminds me of the story of the "Footprints in the Sand"
(Internet Photo)
We came home to find THIS monster on the outside (thank heavens!) wall of our house:
DO NOT TOUCH them! Click that link for more info.
It looks like it has scary little faces on the bottom half...do you see them?
Very weird caterpillar!
(It was very good!).
The fresh blueberries were so good we went back to the blueberry farm and bought some more and I put some in the freezer for future muffins and pies.
Oh, and I did make some Blueberry Bran muffins. Nothing like fresh hot muffins right from the oven...
"Grateful and Blessed"...
that says it all.
I am very thankful and blessed for so many things. God is so very gracious to us.
- Our kids are doing great with their new business, which is a huge answer to prayer.
- One very warm day last week our air conditioner suddenly started blowing hot air out of the vents and it was quickly raising the temperature up to over 80 degrees in the house. We turned it off and tried to figure out what was wrong. Our son who lives here with us noticed that there was no water coming out of the drain pipe outside when it was running. So he took it off and checked it and it was clogged with a buildup of mildew and algae or whatever it was...yucky stuff. So he cleaned it out and then we turned it back on and it ran perfectly! What a miracle and answer to prayer! Repair costs for our central heat and air unit would be very costly and not something we can afford right now. And yes, we do need our AC here in Florida right now.
- Thankful for answered prayer on behalf of so many different ones who are going through physical and other kinds of issues.
- Thankful for our own health and well being.
- Thankful that God is always faithful and vigilant...rescuing us from all the "monsters" that try to scare us in this life...and that He is always in control and will never leave us nor forsake us no matter what. He is ALWAYS walking by our side...and sometimes He's even carrying us...
We've been reading in Psalm 34 in our morning devotions this week. Here are a few of the key verses that I count as God's promises and blessings:
Psalm 34:4-7
"4. I sought the Lord, and He heard me,
And delivered me from all my fears.
5. They looked to Him and were radiant,
And their faces were not ashamed.
6. This poor man cried out, and the Lord heard him,
And saved him out of all his troubles.
7. The angel of the Lord encamps all around those who fear Him,
And delivers them."
I hope that you know that you can count on the Lord to hear you and deliver you when you cry out in fear or have any kinds of troubles. These are precious promises for all of God's children.
Have a wonderful and blessed weekend!
