Grand Opening!!!

The crocuses have begun to open. 4 today- beautiful yellow! Emma helped me put them in back in the fall of 2007. They are back for their second appearance!

In the Swing of Spring

I planted some Daylily seeds from crosses I made last summer. I have over 100 seeds which will from new plants. When they flower in a few years they will be different from anything on earth. Something in their appearance and genetically will be different from their "parents".

This morning when I went to water the seeds I put in Monday, the 16th, there were all kinds of green coming up! These seeds have sprouted. In April they will be transplanted outside.

More Spring Stuff

Moe and I were entertained by a red winged blackbird while I prepared soil for daylily seeds the other day. This morning we cleaned out another flower bed. Spring will be in full swing soon.

Here Comes Spring!

It is official! Spring is nearly here. The crocuses are up in the backyard. A couple of warmer days and they will bloom.

More Thoughts From Oswald Chambers This Morning

The goal of my spiritual life is such close identification with Jesus Christ that I will always hear God and know that God always hears me (see John 11:41 ). If I am united with Jesus Christ, I hear God all the time through the devotion of hearing. A flower, a tree, or a servant of God may convey God’s message to me.

Wind in the Backyard and All over the Northeast Today

It feels like March 25th rather than Lincoln's Birthday here this morning. The wind is whipping and the skies are partly sunny.

I remember a day similar to this one, not quite as windy, in March, back around 1965. My dad took the whole family to Mepham High School in Bellmore. We were going to fly a kite. He got it up in the air. It soared quickly. All of a sudden it took off for the wild blue yonder. The string had broke. It sailed over the High School Building. We watched it go. Then we piled in the car and looked all over the neighborhood for it. We never found it.

My folks told me it probably landed in the bay. They were probably right.

God's Handiwork

The people of God in Isaiah’s time had blinded their minds’ ability to see God by looking on the face of idols. But Isaiah made them look up at the heavens; that is, he made them begin to use their power to think and to visualize correctly. If we are children of God, we have a tremendous treasure in nature and will realize that it is holy and sacred. We will see God reaching out to us in every wind that blows, every sunrise and sunset, every cloud in the sky, every flower that blooms, and every leaf that fades, if we will only begin to use our blinded thinking to visualize it.
-Oswald Chambers

Signs of Spring

Lucy and I ran to pick up some fruit at Shop Rite yesterday. As we walked into the store we saw our first seed rack of the season. It had been decimated! There were a few packages left on it. This is a definite sign of spring coming.

I mentioned in the last post the sun shifting as the days lengthen. This continues.

Then there is the amaryllis. I just pulled them out of the dark corner of the family room this morning. A little water and light and soon they will be putting out their first green shoots.

Outside several early plants are pushing up through the stubborn sod. I am seeing the tiger lilies coming up now.

The buds on the trees are coming on. While filling a bird feeder I noticed that they were swelling up.

Next month springs begins but while we wait signs are all over!