Berry Beauty

Glow on the berries

The autumn sun is ablaze

Wonders never cease

Wonders never cease

We must always be aware

Winter's on the step

Winter's on the step

We knew sooner or later

Knocking at the door

~~~^j^~~~

Thanks be to God!

Please visit Rebecca at recuerda mi corazon for Haiku My Heart. There is always more beautiful words  there to enchant and encourage!!! 

Finally, I am joining A Soulful Life for Soulfood Friday

I have found a new place to play and invite you to join Mersad at Through My Lens.  Should be fun!

I'm also joining Catching Light for some lovely photos today.  Why don't you stop by?

And as an added treat perhaps stop by NC Sue's Image-in-ing.

A Palette of Gold

A palette of gold
Beautiful shades of color
Sun glows in the park

Sun glows in the park

Colors are from God's palette

Glory be to God

Glory be to God

So many are the wonders

So very many

~~~^j^~~~

Thanks be to God!

Please visit Rebecca at recuerda mi corazon for Haiku My Heart. There is always more beautiful words  there to enchant and encourage!!! 

Finally, I am joining A Soulful Life for Soulfood Friday

Stately Tree

~~~^j^~~~

Thanks be to God!

Please visit Rebecca at recuerda mi corazon for Haiku My Heart. There is always more beautiful words  there to enchant and encourage!!! 

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The Autumn Rose

Walks do the soul good

Reflecting on God's beauty

Lifts me to new heights

Shadows and sunlight

Lights and darks and shades of pink

Boast of God's glory

~~~^j^~~~

Thanks be to God!

Please visit Rebecca at recuerda mi corazon for Haiku My Heart. There is always more beautiful words  there to enchant and encourage!!! 

Finally, I am joining A Soulful Life for Soulfood Friday

Single Gerber Daisy

I have waited all summer for this pot full of green foliage to bloom.  And this morning I went outside to work in the garden and found this single Gerber daisy blooming. . .the first day of Autumn.  Ron nursed this plant through the winter knowing it was an annual but hoping that he could keep it alive.  Well, he succeeded.  It just waited to the very end to show her glory.  Don't know if Ron is going to try to nurse it again this winter.  Will wait and see.

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All this greenery

Lush and green the Gerber leaves

Waiting for a bloom

Waiting for a bloom

All the summer long I wait

And she blooms today

Proud as she can be

Vivid is the color red

So very pretty

~~~^j^~~~

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Please visit Rebecca at recuerda mi corazon for Haiku My Heart. There is always more beautiful words  there to enchant and encourage!!! 

Finally, I am joining A Soulful Life for Soulfood Friday

Bee In the Asters

Fall is just a few days away and so the bees are working even harder than they had all summer.  If there was one bee on this plant there was a dozen.  Not only that, but wee moths were also flitting among the blossoms.  Oh, the little things.

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Bees in the asters

They know what's 'round the corner

Busy, busy bees

Busy are the moths

Preparing for what's to come

Flitting little moths

A time to prepare

So the asters offer all

And beauty besides

~~~^j^~~~

Thanks be to God!

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Please visit Rebecca at recuerda mi corazon for Haiku My Heart. There is always more beautiful words  there to enchant and encourage!!! 

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Last Days of Summer

Autumn is knocking

Requesting entrance of you

Rapping at the door

Hearing the knocking

Summer wants to resist it

But knows it cannot

Autumn is rapping

Allowing Fall to enter

She makes her exit

~~~^j^~~~

Thanks be to God!

Cathy

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Big Thompson River

Big Thompson River

Estes Park, CO

Two years ago this month this, what appears to be, little river flooded Estes Park and tore down the Big Thompson Canyon flooding the cities of Ft. Collins and Boulder along the way.  It took eight lives and caused billions of dollars in damage.  The canyon has a history of severe flash flooding, but I am always in awe of the canyon beauty and its river, but I am reminded that the serenity I experience now can change in a heartbeat when severe weather comes.

A gentle river

Hides a frightening secret

It's a strong torrent

Beauty in the sound

Serenity and quiet

Become a torrent

The gentle river

Make peace and understanding

Give respect due it

~~~^j^~~
Thanks be to God

Cathy

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Finding Fun In All the Right Places

After we had spent two days visiting Pompeys Pillar and traveling the Beartooth Pass into Yellowstone National Park we decided to have a different kind of fun.  We'd never been to Sheels Sporting Goods.  My brother assured us we'd have a lot of fun, but spending time in a sporting goods store was not my idea of a good time.  I had to eat my words. . .

There were so many exciting things to see.  Bronze sculptures and wood carvings as well as beautiful animal exhibits.

This is the closest I ever want to get to a bear. . .

These are some of the most beautiful exhibits I've see outside a museum.  This really was fun!  There can be a "great adventure" even in a sporting goods store.  If you have a Sheels near you visit it.  Take the kids and grand kids.  There are aquariums and a Ferris wheel to entertain them.  AND in Billlings they have a cafeteria and they sell FUDGE!

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Adventures can come

In the most surprising ways

And it's simply fun

By a mountain lion
Have the wits scared out of you
To find out he's stuffed

But it's all in fun
When it's with loved ones you laugh
It WAS so much fun

~~~^j^~~
Thanks be to God

Cathy

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Mountain Meadow

Mountain meadows call

Lakes glisten in the sunlight

Blossoms look skyward

Mountain meadows call

Never closer to heaven

Much closer to home

~~~^j^~~~

Thanks be to God!

Cathy

Photo taken near the top of Mount Evans, Colorado, but enhanced with PicMonkey

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Single Rose Bud

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A single red rose

Waiting to boldly blossom

Happy to be loved

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A rose bud of any color causes me to smile.  It has exquisite folds, delicate layers, and hues all their own.  I anticipate the blossom, but can wait because the bud is so very singular.  It's one of of a kind.  Even the bud residing next to it will not be the same.  

And so it is with humanity.  It is a bud.  It will blossom.  It is diversity.  It is a beautiful creation.  We should all spend time enjoying it instead of demeaning, debasing, or humiliating it because some are different.  We should allow each and every person bloom without pruning it before it has a chance to bloom.  Allow God to prune the flowers in the garden, for he is the Head Gardener.  

~~~^j^~~~

Thanks be to God!

Cathy

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Floral Haiku

Lavender and pink
Air is filled with fragrances
Sweetest Aromas

~~~^j^~~~
Thanks be to God!

Cathy

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Hibiscus Beauty

Earnestly waiting

Hoping and praying for this

Hibiscus beauty!

~~~^j^~~~

Thanks be to God!

Cathy

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Peace Lily

There is something so very beautiful yet simple about a Peace Lily.  It has beautiful blooms on strong stems.  It seems to have dignity.  It is a plant with a strong constitution.  How else could it survive in my house or any house for that matter when one forgets to water it?  But, it does.  It reminds me when its leaves fall limp, and they spring up again when fed just to say, "Thank you?"  It is so forgiving.  If real peace could be this simple.

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Peace Lily my friend
Offering so much beauty
Sadly less returned

What the remedy
I will show the tenderness
She truly deserves

~~^j^~~

Thanks be to God!!

Cathy

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Please visit Rebecca at recuerda mi corazon for Haiku My Heart. There is always more beautiful words  there to enchant and encourage!!! 

Spring's 'round the Corner

The years at the spring

And day's at morn;

Morning's at seven;

The hillside's dew-pearleld;

The lark's on the wing;

The snail's on the thorn;

God's in his heaven-

All's right with the world!

~~Robert Browning~~

I know that Spring is still three weeks away and the change to daylight savings time is not for two weeks.  You can accuse me of pressing my luck.  So be it!!  Just remember!  The Feast of Saint Patrick falls between both...There is Hope for Spring!!!  

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Spring's 'round the corner

Goslings and ducklings are born

Softness in down

Little lambs and calves

Nourished by their mother's milk

Spring's 'round the corner

~~^j^~~

Thanks be to God!!

Cathy

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Joy In Completion

Today I join Meri for Share the Joy.   For I believe we need to find it in my life every day no matter the realities in which we live.  God is Good in so many ways even in times of trial.

Joy comes in many forms.
And this day has the potential of
being just as grand as
celebrating the treasures in
all that surrounds me.

I must be open to it!        

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I just completed two prayer shawls.  There is such joy in finishing project.  There were times when prayer was more for me, because of a mistake I made several rows back, than for someone in need.  When you have finished there is also the anticipation of beginning anew.  And so today I begin again.

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Stitches of understanding
Rows of compassion
Prayer shawl made with love

~~~^j^~~~

Thanks be to God!!!

Cathy

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