When you come out of the darkness into a strongly lighted room, nothing comes clearly into focus because the light itself fills your eyes.The same thing was illustrated to us recently when my husband took a snapshot of sunrise breaking over a figurine standing on a...
You have been separated from your Father ever since you were born, and now you get word from far away that you are to inherit a beautiful home from him. You receive a description of the house, the gardens, and a general idea of the route.There are directions about how...
There seems to be nothing more determined to keep out water than dry ground. I was watering a few precious trees during our severe drought and the ground was, so coin a phrase, as hard as nails. However gently I poured the water, it could not penetrate the dry outer...
We had long ago cleared the area for a garden bed and now I was planting a new shrub in it. A strong feature of the bed was its stability. In spite of being on a steep slope and having all the rubbish cleared from the topsoil, it had not shifted or been washed away in...
When you do the washing, you pull the plug and let the dirt go away in the running water.It would seem strange indeed to then go through the dirty water looking at all the dirt, holding it in your fingers, touching it, admiring it, trying to recapture it and put it...
Have you ever pondered that commonly used phrase, 'I need to find out who I am'? Well, so do I and I feel like an insignificant brown wren on a feeding table for parrots. All the food is aimed at parrots. There are big pieces of corn and sunflower seeds and other big...
New seedlings that sprang up under the White Cedar tree were destined for the mower blade. They were growing in the wrong place and their characteristics were wrong for the area.So what if I could do something to give them a new life in a new place? Taking the thought...