The Sands of Time
The Sands of Time keep on blowing. Time is like ever-shifting sand, it is never at a standstill.
For what is life, it is even a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
The Sands of Time
In the Morning Light
In the Morning Light
When the world is screaming
Stirring up fears
I long for a place
Where the noise disappears
A walk into this place
Surrounding me here
In the morning light
Where the noise disappears
It’s so refreshing
The Word spoken clear
This glorious sound
Where the noise disappears
In the inner room
Of intimate prayers
Let my soul dwell
Where the noise disappears
Genesis tells you this, there is eternity in the Spirit. By the time your eyes open in the present the future has already become your past.
In the Morning Light
Sunrise on the Gulf Coast
Sunrise on the Gulf Coast, The sun is rising and I am preparing to paint a new canvas today. Have a Wonderful Day
Sunrise on the Gulf Coast
A Southern Christmas
A Southern Christmas at Bellingrath Gardens, a beautiful place to visit anytime of year. It is a historic home in Alabama where they have the most beautiful flower gardens all year long. In December they put up beautiful Christmas lights throughout their gardens in many different flower shapes and trees. Video below.
Merry Christmas and may we all have a wonderful season of love and giving. Have a Wonderful Weekend.
A Southern Christmas
Through the Tunnel & Over the Bridge
Through the Tunnel & Over the Bridge to New Adventures We Go 😉
Someday is Here
You know how some of us say; ” Someday I am going to go on that big trip”, or Someday I will do __________.
Well, the word someday usually means never. I heard that in a movie that the actor Tom Cruise is in. He said that line.
Someday is here and our journey continues. I look forward to sharing photos of God’s Country along the way. I wish you all a wonderful weekend. Try to never put off what you can do today until someday. Life is a gift,
Life is a gift and death is a homecoming to me. Our body’s are on loan to us just for a short time to enjoy the wonderful things He gives us. I did not grow up in a Christian family at all. A neighbor told me a little bit about it when I was 10 years old and I have been searching for the truth ever since.
He never meant for it to be a mystery; it is the gift of life. Finding my purpose has been the journey, the end will just be the beginning.
Through the Tunnel & Over the Bridge
Mums the Word Again
Mums the Word Again, A few yellow mums to brighten your day today.
Mums the Word Again
Pretty in Pink
Pretty in Pink Doing a little art work today. The last photo is the origanal photo that I took and my imagination created the top two photos.
The One who created me in the Garden of Trees will not destroy me.
I am the One who gave you hands to use your talents to create life around you.
Open your eyes Child, Look Up, I Am Right Here, I Never Left
Pretty in Pink
The Magic of Color
The Magic of Color
The Magic of Color
The Reflection of Light
A Wonderful Day to Give Thanks
A Wonderful Day to Give Thanks, flowers tend to dress up any thing we put them on. Whether it is our tables for special holidays like today, or like this old brick walkway, that has beautiful iron railings and worn bricks leading into a rose garden in this particular park. Video Below showing the flowers as we walk through this park.
They added cascading mum plants to this entry way, which changes the look to a more colorful vibrant entrance on it now. What I can not share with you here is the wonderful aroma coming from these flowers. I never realized mum plants smelled this good, but when you get enough of them together it is amazing.
Happy thanksgiving for many folks today, I hope everyone can enjoy a peacful day with family and friends or just spend some time out in nature. That is where I like to be the most.
Thank you to all of you who happen to come across my blog post here, I appreciate the time you take to view these photos and leave comments. I enjoy reading your words and am thankful for all the kind thoughts that you share every day. I enjoy sharing what I see through the lens of my camera with you and hope it brightens your day.
Happy Thanksgiving
A Wonderful Day to Give Thanks
October November Flowers to Remember
October November Flowers to Remember, Mums the word this November. I posted this first picture a couple of weeks ago and we went back to the same park yesterday and they had changed the flowers on the bridge to cascading mums. A beautiful sight to remember with colorful autumn mums.
All these colors have a way of brightning up ones day here in November.
October November Flowers to Remember
Ship and a Boat
Ship and a Boat, what is the difference? Well, I have always been facinated with ships, I don’t get to see them to often unless I am near the ocean of course. I have always thought about how they made the first boat and as time went by they now make ships like this one below.
We were driving by a ship yard and saw this huge ship being built for the Navy. I don’t know what it is, but there were actually 3 of them being built so I had to snap a photo of this one.
Of course as you walk by any marina down south, the boats are quite pretty. Or I guess you would call these yachts. These by the way are all for sale sitting here and they did not have prices posted on them. I can probably guess they are not cheap.
Then a huge container ship was headed our way so we sat on the edge of the dock and watched in amazement, just to see the sheer size of this thing up close is something to me. I have seen them way out in the waters before. But never this close.
Ship and a Boat
Life on the Beach
Life on the Beach yes another photo with people in it. But, actually I was watching the Blue Heron bird standing on the beach by the water. The people just happened to be in the background. (video below)
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I try to put them on You Tube every Tuesday when I can, it is a way to make my photos come to life. Thank you all for visiting this blog and commenting, I do appreciate it and enjoy conversing with you and meeting new people through this thing called blogging.
Have a Wonderful Weekend
Life on the Beach
Craftmanship in the Park
Craftmanship in the Park, I happened across this beautiful gazebo in a park the other day. Nature is magnificant, but the craftmanship of a builder can be quite beautiful as well.
A simple bridge over a small pond and add some flower boxes on the side can really spruce it up.
Craftmanship in the Park
Morning Noon and Night
Morning Noon and Night, there is always something going on at the beaches. From people just walking on the beach to fishing with very tall fishing poles. (video below)
To pelicans sunning themselves during the heat of the day. You can find them easy enough during the day stitting on a post in the water, cleaning their feathers.
But come sunset, the beaches empty out, the lights are low. That is when we enjoy a walk on the beach the most. Just remember to bring a flashlight if you lose track of time.
So the evening and the morning were the second day and the dry land could appear.
Sunrise of Gold
Have a Wonderful Weekend
To Those Who Serve
Youthfulness, innocence, young love, and loyalty. …
Video Below
To Those Who Serve
Trees of the South
Trees of the South, I love photographing trees, in the south the moss is what captures my eyes. Elegantly flowing from the tree branches above. Natures way of celebrating the outdoors by decorating the trees with natural tinsel.
Trees of the South
Eye Catching Colors
Eye Catching Colors, Green and Red. Wonderful colors of Christmas as well. I see roses in bloom down here in the south still and the palm leaves are such a vibrant green. Especially when the sun is shinning through them. It amazes me to see flowers in bloom here in November.
I am so used to seeing snow this time of year, so to see all this color right now is heart warming to say the least. He promises He will water the seeds we plant and bring them to life.
Eye Catching Colors
Master Kingston Shrimping Boat
Master Kingston Shrimping Boat, it is a shrimping boat but I think it is doing better at catching birds. 💕😉
We are off for the weekend,
Have a Wonderful Weekend
The Hidden Lake of Reflections
She Blends Right In
She Blends Right In, there is a small lake in the campground we are at which is the home to this one alligator. When the sun is shinning in the late evenings, it blends right in to its surroundings as the cover photo. This is our first sighting of an alligator.
They are such a strange looking animal, I was wondering what they eat, especially in this small isolated pond. There are lots of turtles swimming all around it. So I am guessing if it is hungry enough that would make a meal.
There is a board walk over looking the pond, that is where I am standing looking down on it. I will put photos on tomorrow of the pond itself. The reflections are mezmerizing in the late afternoons.
She Blends Right In
New Places Means New Wildlife
New Places Means New Wildlife, one of the fun things about traveling is seeing new things that we don’t get to see on a regular basis. Like this emerald green dragon fly. He was hanging onto the side of the RV today at a new park, so had to snap a couple of photos.
We finally got to see our first alligator as well. She is a beauty and at this small lake there are a few baby alligators popping their heads out of the water now and then. But they disapear fast, so you can only see their little noses in the water and then they are gone.
I mentioned the Osprey a few days ago. Well, we have been seeing it a few times this week and learning where it likes to hang out to eat its lunch. Here it has a fish in its claws enjoying lunch high up in a tree. I now know the call it makes as well so it is easyier to spot it.
New Places Means New Wildlife
Nothing But Water
Nothing But Water, the Gulf coast stays fairly calm in this area. So you can see sun sparkles on the water for miles on end. Video below
Nothing But Water
The Sunrise of Gold
The Sunrise of Gold ; Gold It is worth more in your heart then in our hands.
The Sunrise of Gold
Doing Some Crabbing
Doing Some Crabbing, not being crabby, 🙂 Watching the Gulls find tiny crabs for their meal today along the waters edge. It was sunrise here on the gulf coast so the water is reflecting the golden hue of the sun as it rises this morning.
A beautiful morning as the water gently recedes from high tide and a view down the beach of hotels lit up in the morning light. This is one of our favorite places to be, the Gulf Coast.
Doing Some Crabbing
Abstract Art in Nature
Abstract Art in Nature , nature has a way of creating its own abstract art when you look really close. Shadows and light, lines and patterns and color to top it off.
Below is a Seed pod on a Magnolia Tree
Magnolia Tree
Abstract Art in Nature
The Journey Continues
The Journey Continues, most of you might know that I do love photographing wild life, especially birds. So today I have two new birds that I have never seen before and some new flowers along the way. Well, flowers and trees. I do love seeing different trees, they are all unique and different.
This bird below I believe is a Yellow Bellied Kingbird, now I could be wrong. Sometimes it is hard to find exactly the name of these new birds when you look on the internet and dozens of them come up with my description I put in. But he does look like he has a crown of feathers on top of his head.
This is an Osprey, a type of hawk. He was quite far away, so the photo is not real crisp. But, it is the first one I have ever seen and photographed. Look at his talons, quite something I think.
Have a Great Weekend
The Journey Continues
A Rose By Any Other Name
A Rose By Any Other Name, The importance of a person or thing is the way it is; not because of what it is called.
A name is just a label to distinguish one thing from another. It neither has any worth, nor gives true meaning. Only an individual or thing has a worth when it deserves it; for example, even if we call a rose by an entirely different name, it would smell the same as it does by its name “rose.”
Let the mist of your breath come across my face and wash the dust from my eyes. Let your hands help me stand up. So that I may stand in your presence.
A Rose By Any Other Name
Camping Near the Ohio River
Camping Near the Ohio River, the leaves have not changed color here yet as we stopped to camp for a few days. Early morning campfires are going as the smoke is highlighted by the sun rays through the trees.
You can see the bridge off in the distance where you can travel across it and enter Kentucky, yes the Ohio river between Illinois and Kentucky.
We have camped here a couple of times. I took this photo below a couple of years ago from the same park. Sunrise at the Ohio river.
A few photos of the critters around the park are always fun to take. I am guessing this is a ground hog and I don’t think he is seeing his shadow this fall yet. That might be good news.
And these guys are just basking in the morning light. Turtles are always fun to watch.
Camping Near the Ohio River
Harvest Time in the Mid West
Harvest Time in the Mid West, as we left Iowa on our journey south. I had to take some photos of the daisies growing in the ditches along the country roads of. An abundance of food for the little insects during this time of year and of course what is Iowa if one does not stop and take photos of the tall ornamental grasses around the lakes and Corn. Lots and lots of corn.
Harvest Time in the Mid West
