Soaking in the last beauty of summer days...

The last days of summer are here... the flowers are wilting... but still a few of them are beautiful. It would be sad to see winter come, with all the cold rain and gray bleakness.

 It would be sad to see the beauty disappear, from the rainbow of colors to a dull black and white...

 Even the sunflowers are done blooming and are heavy with seeds, ready for harvest.

I really enjoyed the hot colorful beauty of summer this year. But I have always enjoyed fall colors too, and cant wait to see how my garden will look when she puts on the more golden-orange dress on and does a little twirl...:)

psychiatry's prescription for violence Pt 01

If you or your child take antidepressant medication, watch this. Stop taking it. It could kill you or your loved ones.

The Bridge

Such an incredible movie to watch with your children. So powerful and sad, and empowering.

Wilting garden gives me seeds.

Is your garden wilting about now, turning brown? As the days are getting shorter, the nights colder...and the garden is getting ready for winter-to sleep and rest. I took some lovely pictures of my wilting flowers, I believe they are still very pretty, don't you? :)

~~To the attentive eye each moment of the year has its own beauty; and in the same field it beholds every hour that was never seen before, and shall never be seen again. The heavens change every moment and reflect their glory or gloom on the plains beneath.~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Here is what dry dill looks like... well the seeds at least.

~~ Autumn into winter, winter into spring, spring into summer, summer into fall-so rolls the changing year, and so we change.~~ Dinah Muloch Craik

A lot of my flowers are turning dry, as soon as they turn a nice crisp brown and die that’s when I can collect the seeds for another year. For another beautiful colorful spring. The flowers I had this year were the seeds my mother in law had collected the previous year, who is teaching me when I can collect my seeds. At first not knowing any better I collected the almost dry flowers, not really ripe for the seed collecting. There must be a scientific reason why the flowers need to die before I can collect the seeds. 

My garden is wilting, my garden is dry.

The flowers are fading

The grasses are wild

The wind is much cooler

The sun not as hot

The blooms full of seeds

To harvest I must

To wait until spring

For beauty to bloom

As soon as its warm

Here are some lovely verses from the Bible about gardening, harvest and seeds. 

Gen 8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

Jer 5:24 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.

Psa 103:15 As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

Isa 40:8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

Amazing and lovely photos of all kinds of seeds.

Here is another pretty book, such colors, such detail of each little seed. Its a fun book to take out and show your children, but very fun for adults too.

Such pretty drawings of each seed.

If you never gardened before or just want to brush up on some skills, here is a link you can use:

How to garden? 

~ If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak.~~

-William Shakespeare, Macbeth

My love for photography.

Since I was a little girl I was in love with color, beauty, nature and capturing it on paper. I used to doodle on each little scrap of paper I would get my hands on. Sometimes I still do, even at work and that sometimes gets me into trouble. Drawing and painting kind of disappeared as soon as I got married, but the love for photography emerged. Taking pictures of all the lovely nature spots we went to, and later all the photos I took of my children, made my husband trow up his hands as he bought me a digital camera, tired of all the times we had to develop ALL the photos I took on film. :)

So far this is just a hobby I do. I especially love taking pictures of nature, of beautiful flowers you see on my blog. Maybe some day I will be able to turn it into money making business? who knows... it does not hurt to hope. Then I can leave my office work and work from home taking pictures and traveling, my two dreams.

What are your dreams? Are you living your dream? If "Yes", then you are very lucky and blessed. If its a "No", May God help you fulfill your dreams, and live the life you always wanted.

Here is a web page I found that possibly will help me in my search for getting MONEY for my pictures!!
http://9eceffighuuf3papuwq8wbpjfh.hop.clickbank.net/

My creed.

I would be true, for there are those who trust me;

I would be pure, for there are those who care;

I would be strong- for there is much to suffer;

I would be brave, for there is much to dare.

I would be friend of all- the foe, the friendless;

I would be giving, and forget the gift.

I would be humble, for I know my weakness;

I would look up- and laugh- and love- and lift.

~~~Howard Arnold Walter~~~

Beautiful prayer.

Psalm 16 (One of my favorite psalms...)

1 Keep me safe, O God,
for in you I take refuge.

2 I said to the LORD, "You are my Lord;
apart from you I have no good thing."


3 As for the saints who are in the land,
they are the glorious ones in whom is all my delight.

4 The sorrows of those will increase
who run after other gods.
I will not pour out their libations of blood
or take up their names on my lips.


5 LORD, you have assigned me my portion and my cup;
you have made my lot secure.


6 The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places;
surely I have a delightful inheritance.


7 I will praise the LORD, who counsels me;
even at night my heart instructs me.


8 I have set the LORD always before me.
Because he is at my right hand,
I will not be shaken.


9 Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices;
my body also will rest secure,


10 because you will not abandon me to the grave,
nor will you let your Holy One see decay.


11 You have made known to me the path of life;
you will fill me with joy in your presence,
with eternal pleasures at your right hand.

Here are some pleasures that I enjoy... my children, the flowers... lovely hot summer days.