Showing posts with label Flowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Flowers. Show all posts
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Beautiful Oklahoma
Wouldn't you love to look out your bathroom window and see this view? Sure you would. This is just one view that Jackie Anderson enjoys from her home. Jackie's entire yard—several acres it could be, I'm not sure, is landscaped just like this. Wherever you go, whichever way you turn, this is what you see.
Or this view from her bedroom window. Jackie shares her yard with the Garden Club members from time to time. I remember the first time I had lunch in Jackie's yard. My, my, my.
She has her own private hide-away and that's where the luncheon was set up. Who ever! ( I mean, really, who ever? ) Just think, your own private place to sneak off and read all day...
A large covered deck situated on a rise, caught the cool breeze. The breeze gently ruffled the snowy white table-cloths around our knees as we sat at the large round tables. Soft cloth napkins, pretty china and delicate stemware vied for attention over the flowers and trees spread out far and wide beyond the deck. It reminded me of the movie, Out Of Africa. I pretended a little. Need I say that I enjoyed the afternoon tremendously. The food was delicious, the talk lively and the view, well, you can see for yourself.
I have to admit I was a little distracted. I kept glancing into the sky, knowing, hoping that at any minute I'd see a small speck. It would grow larger, then I'd hear the engine humming, and then Robert Redford would do a perfect landing in the trees and roll to a stop just below the deck and hop out of the cockpit and... oh, sorry, I got carried away. The garden club ladies were fun too.
Friday, August 23, 2013
Replenish daily...
Several weeks ago I stood at my front door and watched it rain.
Nothing exceptional in this, except it's August, in Oklahoma. My front yard looked almost tropical.
Oklahoma in August, tropical? Those words don't go together.
Brown, crisp, Augusts from the past came to mind; when nothing bloomed, and grasshoppers feasted on anything with even a hint of life clinging to it.
As I watched, the earth was being replenished with life saving water. Just water. Which to my yard is the difference between life and death. I watched the rain pour off the roof, and gave thanks for it.
Thoughts of the way I too need to be replenished, like my plants, came to mind.
The important, life-saving things all come from God, our creator. Water, oxygen, sunshine, and his word, are what keeps me from dying a physical and spiritual death.
Fortunately, not like with the rain, I have a choice. I can choose each day to be replenished or not. I make the decision to take the time to talk with my Lord, to study his word and stay close to him through prayer. I choose his way.
It is my choice. He doesn't force it on me, and he doesn't bestow it on me just because I'm a really nice person.
The rain is gone, back to sunshine and hair-dryer wind... I enjoy looking at the photo when all was wet, and tropical in Oklahoma on a cool August day.
Have a wonderful day full of good choices! :-)
Monday, September 3, 2012
PEONIES
This was a lot of pink. After I finished this painting, I didn't do anything with pink for a while. But I love the light, fluffy feel of the peonies.
Thursday, August 30, 2012
CAPE MALLOW
When I'm working in the studio I glance out the window frequently, my glance always lingers on this plant. After painting it in rapidly changing light, I'll never look at it the same again.
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