Daily Blessing

Raspberry Lessons: When people aren’t exactly what you expect.

Hubby and I purchased our raspberry plants several years ago. It was the middle of the winter, and Home Depot had little cardboard tubes of raspberries, blueberries, and strawberries for sale just outside the front entrance. Hubby and…

July 24, 2025Lessons in the Dirt

Early morning sunshine blessing! – 2.0

Picking raspberries in the cool quiet of the early morning, as the sun slowly rises higher and higher in the sky. Thank you God for early morning sunshine blessings!What blessings has God blessed you with today?

July 23, 2025Gratitude

Early morning sunshine blessings!

Early morning sunshine highlighting a cheerful flower bouquet from my daughter! Thank you God for early morning sunshine blessings! I never cease to be in awe of little baby pumpkins! Thank you God for early morning sunshine blessings! …

July 22, 2025Gratitude

It might not be perfect, but it’s absolutely perfect!

Early morning sunshine blessing – the calm reflection of the forest in the birdbath. Granted, this birdbath isn’t perfect (like fancy schmancy birdbaths you can buy at fancy schmancy garden nurseries). But regardless of its supposed “imperfection”, this…

July 21, 2025Lessons from the forest

When the garbage workers go on strike …

Hubby and I have had two old broken dehumidifiers sitting around in the workshop for over a year now. We’ve got heaps of styrophome which need to be gotten rid of. We’ve got bags of garbage (from a…

July 20, 2025Life Lessons

Blueberry lessons!

What better thing to do on a Saturday morning than to go blueberry picking! Hubby and I arrived at the U-pick farm bright and early. Hardly anyone else was there. We grabbed our buckets and checked the sign…

July 19, 2025Lessons in the Dirt

Blessings on a warm summer evening!

Hubby and I went to go get the mail … and on our way back we passed these beautiful Douglas Meadowsweet blooms, with the evening sunset highlighting them. I do love Douglas Meadowsweet! Thank you God for blessings…

July 18, 2025Gratitude

Poppy blooms! … and seed pods!

Last fall someone very special from Idaho gathered her poppy seeds from her own poppy plants and sent them to me as a gift. Poppies are her favorite flowers. I generously spread poppy seeds in every container I…

July 17, 2025Lessons in the Dirt

Blessing on a normal ordinary day!

You never know what you’ll see when you go to the grocery store for green onions! It’s a little bitty bear cub! Thank you God for such a fun surprise blessing on a normal, ordinary day!

July 16, 2025Gratitude

The Basics of Life!

Mama deer came around with little Jr. deer recently. She is teaching him the basics of life! And the lesson for today was: There are tasty apples on these apple trees right here! Mama nibbled a few tasty…

July 15, 2025Lessons from the forest