This new year..................

I am looking up the road into the new possibilities

of all I can do.................

I hope to start a fruit orchard and to raise berries...........

I have a new kind of pumpkin that I want to try to raise.............

my Zinnia seeds are lying in wait to touch the soft earth............

as well as the cosmos.............

I have decided to raise a vegetable garden this year,

and I have stumbled upon a "new way" of gardening..........that I cannot wait to experiment with,

and I hope that the grounds will someday look like the photo above......

I will let you know about the new gardening idea and take you along the journey in future posts.

With this New Year.................I am not looking back,

instead.........I am keeping my focus straight ahead,

armed with prayer, hope and faith.

How about you?

Are you looking back, weary of how last year was?..........or perhaps with sweet memories of things that occurred?

Or are you looking ahead with worry about what is to become?..........or maybe you are full of excitement and can't wait to step out into the New Year.

I would love to hear.

Happy New Year

dear blogging friends.

Walking in the woods on a snowy evening..........

on Christmas Eve.....making my daughter's Christmas visit wish come true.

We have had such a wonderful time as we all gathered together.

The fields as far as one could see were covered in a blanket of snow on Christmas morning..........such a rare thing for Texas, especially since we have suffered such a sever drought this summer.

It has been such a magical time, with photos being taken, hands held in prayer at the dinner table, memories shared and memories made.

How about you? Did you have a lot of guests at your Christmas table?

Did you have a lot of snow outside your door?

I would love to hear.

Christmas is almost here..........

and I am looking forward to it more than any other Christmas over the past few years..........

for this special Christmas...............

my daughter is coming home...........

traveling a far way to get here..............

taking a break from her busy Navy life.......

making this holiday a time where,

for the first time in many years..........

all of my children along with my husband and I, will all be together to celebrate..........

as a complete family............

just like those Christmas times a long while back.

I am taking a break from blogging.......

to just enjoy...

family.

For all of you who visit here..........

Have yourself a very Merry Christmas!

There are hundreds of mesquite trees

here on the grounds of "Pleasant Prairie".  I know, because I have walked the woods with Sophie, looking over every one of them.......

However, in the back yard, ...............in front of my greenhouse, is a younger mesquite tree that has a wonderful clump of mistletoe growing on it. It is the only one out of all of the trees here on the grounds that has mistletoe. I know it is actually a fungus...........but I love it!

This is how it looked last week when we got the "big snow". This tree also supports one end of my clothesline...............which I love!

DID YOU KNOW?
Kissing under the mistletoe, our favorite sprig of green leaves and white berries, dates back to a 17th century English custom.
At that time, a berry was removed every time a kiss was made, which meant there were no kisses when there were no berries.

How about you??

 Do you have mistletoe hanging in your trees?..................or more important...........

do you have mistletoe hanging where you can get a kiss or two??
I hope so!

Just a thought for the beginning of the week...............

For in the day of trouble he will keep me safe in his dwelling; he will hide me in the shelter of his tabernacle and set me high upon a rock”(Psalm 27:5, NIV)

Snow usually does not last long

in the part of Texas that I am in..................

( our home looks like a winter wonderland..........don't you think?)

however, we managed to get 6 inches in one day................

  Every thing was covered and we are just now seeing the last of the snow melt away.

As  you know, I love old fence posts...........

you can see where the snow blew in from the north on this one.  Today, we have sunny skies,

and it looks like it will stay this way for the weekend and into next week.

How about you?

Are you still under snow, rain, or deep cold??

Or do you have sunny skies?

I would love to hear.

Why did the chicken cross the road??

Shrek: Urrrrrp - What chicken?

George Bush: To face a kinder, gentler thousand points of headlights

Darwin: It was the logical next step after coming down from the trees

Bob Dylan: How many roads must one chicken cross?

Robert Frost: To cross the road less traveled by

Gilligan: The traffic started getting rough; the chicken had to cross. If not for the plumage of its peerless tail the chicken would be lost, the chicken would be lost!

Martin Luther King : It had a dream

James T. Kirk: To boldly go where no chicken has gone before

Sir Isaac Newton: Chickens at rest tend to stay at rest. Chickens in motion tend to cross the road

Mr. Scott: 'Cos ma wee transporter beam was na functioning properly. Ah canna work miracles, Captain!

Mae West: I invited it to come up and see me sometime

George Washington: Actually it crossed the Delaware with me back in 1776

Albert Einstein: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed
the chicken depends upon your frame of reference

Darth Vader: Because it could not resist the power of the Dark Side

Lord Baden-Powell: To earn a Road Crossing merit badge  

Colonel Sanders: I missed one?

A blanket of thick white snow

blew across the prairie in the wee late hours

and covered the woods in it's crisp, cold, brightness.

That means just one thing to Sophie.......... 

Playtime!

She looks like she is making her own snowman.........or snowdog

We walked all over the grounds this morning........oohing and ahhing............well, I did, Sophie, just sniffed. But all of this snow means one wonderful thing for me and for Texas............

moisture!!!

How about you? Have you already received enough snow that you are already tired of it?

Or are you still out there making snow angels and snowmen?

I would love to hear!