Category: nature
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Welcome August
My daughter and I started making plans last week, talking about going on a couple of local tours and taking a one-night Italian cooking class. Then, we both looked up from our phones nearly at the exact same time saying, “let’s wait until fall!” Living in New York, the end…
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Stunning Aerial Views
Though impossible to capture how extraordinary the sky looked in real time, I hope you enjoy these pics I took through the window on a recent flight. How clearly the sky reveals God’s glory! How plainly it shows what He has done! Psalm 19:1
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Palm Trees
“But the godly will flourish like palm trees…” Psalm 92:12 “The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees blowing in the wind.” – Carl Hiaasen
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Conserve Water! (Just Ignore the New Car Washes Opening on Every Corner)
Is filling my washing machine honestly more of a threat to the global water crisis than say… filling 10.7 million swimming pools? Or, operating the 62,000+ car washes across the nation…? We paid well over a grand for our new, full-fill Speed Queen washing machine. We looked at this same…
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Wordless Wednesday-Friend by the Sea
I was able to zoom in on this guy in Florida…. didn’t want to get too close and scare him, since he already appeared to have a little wound at the top of his wing. I appreciate various species of birds, but can rarely identify what type they are. If…
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Spring Sunrise
A colorful morning sunrise at the end of April…you can see the trees were just beginning to bud. It was a very late Spring for us but Summer weather thankfully arrived this week! Every day, a million miracles begin at sunrise. Eric Jerome Dickey
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Coming Up Roses
During a recent walk, I came across these lovely, petite roses. They seemed perfect for an almost-Wordless Wednesday. “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” – Abraham Lincoln
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Texas Take-Off
On a recent flight out of Austin, TX, we were delayed on the tarmac, but the Texas sky made waiting a pleasure. As we finally rolled forward, every angle was spectacular.
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Florida Lightning
Gulf of Mexico, near Sand Key, Florida, 2023. These were shot with just an iPhone. I have traveled frequently to Florida and Texas, and both states have some wild and exciting rain storms!
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Cloud Pillars
On a flight to Texas, I noticed these two, taller cloud formations and decided to share them with you. Blue skies were a mood-lifter as the plane rose up over the dark, dreary New York weather.
Tales from a Mid-Lifer 