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SUMMER::AUGUST:FULL OF SAP AND GREEN...
































































August is summer's hump month--that's how I look at it anyway. It's halfway to
cooler mornings and pleasant evenings and no mosquitoes; and if there's one word
to describe Florida in August it's green. 

Mere days into the month, Louis is diagnosed with a detached retina and referred
for surgery, and I'm scheduled for a remicade infusion, as well as my yearly
series of pulmonology and rheumatology evaluations.   

It seems that we spend more days on the road and in waiting rooms and exam rooms
than we do at home; and maybe that's why I've been more inclined to wander
outside of our air-conditioned house, even if August holds some of summer's
hottest and most humid days.

I'm desperate for sunlight, fresh air, and beauty...ever full of sap and
green.  

Crepe myrtle, beautyberry, a downy woodpecker, magnolias, honeysuckle, a mama
fox squirrel scurrying up an oak tree with her baby, and Casey's family coming
to our rescue to mow and work outside when Louis can't. Dragon flies and blue
skies, wildflowers, and Emily and her rescued chocolate lab.  

I'm so very grateful.

And goldenrod shoots continue to grow taller, reaching for cooler not-summer
days.      

> The righteous flourish like the palm tree and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
> They are planted in the house of the LORD; they flourish in the courts of our
> God. They still bear fruit in old age; they are ever full of sap and green, to
> declare that the LORD is upright; he is my rock, and there is no
> unrighteousness in him.
> 
> ~Psalm 92:12-15

> Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD. He is like
> a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not
> fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the
> year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.
> 
> ~Jeremiah 17:7-8

Creation sings the Father's song... a song of love and grace. [video]

Posted by Patricia at Monday, October 09, 2017
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August, Summer



THURSDAY


SUMMER::JULY PART 2:BEAUTIFUL IN ITS TIME...





















































[As mentioned in July Part 1, Hurricane Irma has been a major disruption this
summer. It's a story for September, but not until I get through July and August
in my summer photo series--though I realize that it's technically no longer
summer. Looking at the pre-Irma photos of our property is bittersweet. It's hard
to see how much was destroyed by the hurricane, but I'm confident that much will
also be restored in due time. There will always be beauty--and sometimes it can
be found in the most unlikely places.]   

After the beach, the remaining weeks of July showcased our typical mid-summer
flare--muscovy ducks gliding across the pond's surface, shimmery-winged
dragonflies on barb-wired fences and wildflower blooms. Swallow-tailed kites,
pileated woodpeckers, blue jays and mockingbirds...and bushes and bushes and
bushes of ripening beautyberries. 

And those air potato vines. I'm well aware that they are an unwelcomed invasive
species, but how do I not love those shiny heart-shaped leaves in the thickets
along the creek before the air potato beetles do their work. 

Virginia creeper climbs the tall pines, and primrose willow dots the open field
and pasture. Resurrection fern, unfurling from its dried spiral with every
summer rain, drapes the live oak limbs, as 3 armadillo pups root in the ground
underneath. 

And when the goldenrod shoots begin to grow--I'm delighted to remember that
there will be not-summer days.    

> He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into
> man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the
> beginning to the end.
> 
> ~Ecclesiastes 3:11 

> The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand
> forever.
> 
> ~Isaiah 40:8 


Posted by Patricia at Thursday, October 05, 2017
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dandelions, Dragonflies, Florida, Insects, Muscovy Ducks, My Father's World,
Resurrection Fern, Summer, Vines, Wildflowers

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