Thoughts from May 8: An Adventure "Owl" Never Forget

      Dear Readers,

     Last Sabbath, Dad and I were out for a walk in our woods. We kept hearing this sound! At first I thought it sounded like kids playing down at the road, but then it came again and it was more like an animal. We kept hearing it from the same spot. Then I looked up...

... and saw this! It took me a moment, but I finally realized that the squirrel nest I was staring at was an owl!

     He (or she) was right above us! We went inside to call Mom to come look, but by the time she came, the owl was gone. It was very big, so we wondered if it was a female. A couple of weeks ago, we had seen and heard two owls flying around at the edge between the forest and our back yard. I wonder if they are a pair and have a nest nearby? I would love to see baby owls! My cousin has been spending a lot of time in our woods, and the past several nights she has heard the owls hunting. I wish they didn't eat the little critters, but I love the owls too!

     Have a blessed Sabbath evening and a wonderful week!

     Bye,

     Christina Austine

Thoughts from May 2: Bird Photos

      Dear reader,

     Here's the next post of photos! These are photos I took yesterday Sabbath morning.

Female Northern Cardinal

Carolina Chickadee

Hummingbird

I thought half to myself and half to God, "you know, I'd like to see a hummingbird!" And then I saw a hummingbird! :D

Eastern Bluebird

Squirrel

Male Northern Cardinal

Chipmunk

     See you in the next post!

     Bye,

     Christina Austine

Thoughts from February 7

     Dear reader,

     I have had some photos I wanted to post for a few days, and I finally got around to it. So here are a bunch of slightly random photos from the past couple of weeks! 

Sir Bentley likes to help me make my bed in the mornings.

A gorgeous sunrise one day.

The moon was so big and beautiful!

Another gorgeous morning.

We actually got SNOW!!!! This was about a week ago. I am glad I got these photos when I did, because it started to melt after breakfast!

Bentley and the snow.

The moon one morning.

We actually got SNOW AGAIN today!!!!

Northern Cardinal, male

American Goldfinch

Carolina Chickadee

Carolina Wren

Downy Woodpecker, male

Our lab Holly's paw prints.

My paw prints. :D

Our maple tree.

Our woods.

The daffodils!

     Hope you have enjoyed this bit of nature today!

“As the heavens are higher than the earth,

so are my ways higher than your ways

    and my thoughts than your thoughts.

As the rain and the snow

    come down from heaven,

and do not return to it

    without watering the earth

and making it bud and flourish,

so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,

so is my word that goes out from my mouth:

    It will not return to me empty,

but will accomplish what I desire

    and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.

Isaiah 55:9-11, NIV

Wash and make yourselves clean.

    Take your evil deeds out of my sight;

    stop doing wrong.

Learn to do right; seek justice.

    Defend the oppressed.

Take up the cause of the fatherless;

    plead the case of the widow.

"Come now, let us settle the matter,"

says the Lord.

"Though your sins are like scarlet,

they shall be as white as snow;

though they are red as crimson,

they shall be like wool.

Isaiah 1:16-18, NIV

     Bye,

     Christina Austine