I love my gardens! They feed us, but we do not have to get up each day and feed them.

Well, here is the day's pickin's.  Spring onions, tomatoes, peas and the very last of the broccoli.  Which my friend Julia will appreciate because she does not like broccoli!!!  Right Julia?  :)

A family member of mine raises sheep and goats, and it is lambing time.  What hard work.  I think I am better suited to planting seeds, and picking veggies.  That way I can sleep in a little.

Blessings at the beach.....

At the condo in Ormond Beach.  It has been a balmy tropical week with sunshine, breezes and the most wonderful thing.  Today I saw something for the first time in my life.  It was a rainbow cloud.  Not a rainbow but a cloud that was pink, blue, green and absolutely beautiful.  There were three of them!  White clouds were wisping below them, and the high clouds were lovely colors!  It was not raining.  I later read online that these clouds are high and have to be full of a certain type of ice crystal to show colors.  When I see something like this, I know it a delight from God and He is gracing us with even more beauty than He gives us in each day.  I wish I could have captured it on my camera, but could not.  Look it up online.  You will see photos of what I am trying to describe.  And even if you see a scientific explanation, we all know that God is the Great Scientist.....the Great Creator.  Bless you all.  It has been wonderful week with just hubby and me.  And the ocean, and the wind, and the sand.....  

Happy Easter to All!

The Lord is so gracious to us.  All of our blessings, even those we do not even realize, come from Him.  I hope your Easter this year is a time of awakening to the Holy Spirit, refreshing your soul and allowing any doubt to fall away.  I pray this for all of you who read this.  He is risen!!!    

Continuing on the garden theme.....

The sugar snap peas are actually twice as tall as this photo taken only a week ago.  We have had soft, rainy days, and cool nights.....all the things that gardens love.  And the weeds love it too.....ugh.  :)

Broccoli......lots and lots

Well, the broccoli is doing right fine this winter.  The bag full you see here is about the fourth bag I have cut, and there is lots more still on the stem.  Put my snap peas in two weeks ago,they are peeking out about two inches now, and this week-end I am going to have to get the stakes in and give them something to hang on to as they get tall.  Now if I could only ban all weeds from the garden, things would be wonderful!!!  :)  For those of you who visit my blog, wish I could bring a bag of broccoli to your door this evening.

Fresh Eggs

I do not have my own chickens. (Though it would be fun if I did.)  So friends share with me when they can, and yesterday I received some that were REALLY fresh.  It was the first time they ever came to me with part of the nest and even a few feathers included!  This is exactly how they looked when I opened the bag.  Aren't they beautiful?  I have a cake in the oven right now and I used three of them in the batter......

The owner said they were her children's Easter chickens from last year, and now they are giving eggs....so cool.

Butterfly Whisperer

The header photo on this blog shows a Monarch Butterfly.  Each year they migrate over the ocean to a place called St. Mark's Wildlife Refuge on our own North Florida coastline.  A day trip there will allow you to see hundreds literally dripping off the flowering bushes along the bay.  But a few renegades always make their way to Tallahassee, and cling to our gardens too.  It is exquisite to see.  My granddaughter can actually catch them, without harm.  I call her the butterfly whisperer.  It takes patience and quiet movements, but she reaches out and clasps them by their closed wings, only to let them go moments later.