A Very Late Friday Foto Friends on Saturday

Hello Friends! We are very late with our "Friday Foto Friends"...here it is late Saturday and we still haven't posted anything.  Mommie's been a little busy and also she said she just didn't have any really good pictures to share, but I said, "But Mommie, our friends will think something is wrong with us if we don't post something!"  And so she agreed and said we will just share what we have. Mommie also wants to apologize for not getting around to visit everyone else the last couple of days. She said sometimes we just need a little break away from the computer, but she wishes we could really visit in person!

So, all that being said, here we go!  We have been having some very foggy mornings here lately. This was our sunrise one morning...you can see the sun is trying to shine through the fog...

And this is how it looked over Still Waters Pond in the fog...

Today we saw these two Red Shouldered Hawks sitting way up in the top of that big old pine tree.  Mommie said she can't decide if it is a "couple", or a parent and a younger hawk. The one on the left still looks kind of young in the face, don't you think?

And then that "young looking one" flew away, and the other one was hollering at it like as if to say, "Junior! You get right back over here right this minute! Do you hear me??"

And then she took off after the other one to scold it for flying away while she was still speaking to him! 

That's how it looked to us. What do YOU think?

Meanwhile, Mommie and Daddy were busy digging holes in the ground and planting some things.

This is a BLUEBERRY BUSH!  All those little flowery berry looking things are going to be Blueberries!!!! Oh, I hope they do grow and ripen so we can have our very own blueberries! Mommie said we have to watch out for the deer and hope they don't find them before we get to eat them.  We planted this bush inside the fenced yard hoping that might keep them away for a while.  But Mommie said once a deer knows it is there, the fence won't keep it away...they can jump right over a fence!

So we will just have to wait and see what happens. We haven't seen any deer here in a long time.

Then we planted some little azalea bushes in the Secret Garden area.  Mommie said when they get bigger they will bloom some really pretty big dark pink flowers, but probably not until next spring now since they are done blooming for this spring already.

Oh looky here! The beautiful red "Don Juan" rose is just about ready to open up!! Isn't it beautiful?

I can't wait to see it open. This will be my first time seeing this rose bloom...this is the one in the Secret Memorial Garden that Mommie brought with her when they moved here.

I'm sitting on "Mom's Secret Garden" Bench.  Mommie said this picture shows us that we need to wash the bench as it has lots of stuff growing on it...Oh dear! I hope it doesn't grow on me! 

When we went on our walk the other day we saw these interesting flowers blooming. Mommie said they are "Paw-Paw" blossoms, and that this little bush will grow "Paw-Paws".  I don't know what a "Paw-Paw" is, do you?  She said it is a wild fruit that the critters will eat when they ripen...but they are edible for people too, only these are kind of small and wild, not like the ones that can be bought in some stores.

And I checked on the wild plums, and we found a few more of them, but Mommie said they are a lot smaller than they were this time last year, and not nearly as many.  So she thinks they are taking a year off from their "production".  

I love to see these cute little wild daisies growing.   Isn't it sweet? I have another identical "cousin" named Daisy living in S.C.  This made me think about her and my other cousin Tracie. I hope they are okay. I miss them, but sometimes we write letters back and forth and send pictures, so that helps me not to feel so lonesome for them.

I just had to take a picture of this! Isn't it funny?  Have you ever heard of a speed "hump"???  Mommie said in most places they are called a speed "bump", but maybe this one is related to a speedy camel or something.  Maybe we should show this picture on "Hump Day"! Ha Ha!!!

OH, I got to visit the Post Office one day! Mommie said the people at the Post Office were the nice people who "delivered" me to Mommie's house when I came here in my special package all the way from Aunt Debbi's house in S.C.   I think the people at the Post Office are very nice and they took good care of me and got me to the right place on time! Mommie said that her daddy used to work for the Post Office many years ago, and so it is a very special place to her.

Well, I guess that's all for now. Mommie said this next week is going to be very special as it is called "Holy Week". Tomorrow starts "Holy Week" with Palm Sunday, the day that Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey and the colt of a donkey:

The Triumphal Entry

John 12:12-19

12 The next day a great multitude that had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

13 took branches of palm trees and went out to meet Him, and cried out:

“Hosanna!

‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’

The King of Israel!”

14 Then Jesus, when He had found a young donkey, sat on it; as it is written:

15 “Fear not, daughter of Zion;

Behold, your King is coming,

Sitting on a donkey’s colt.”

I didn't understand what palm branches were, so Mommie showed me these palms in our yard. She said many people, including children, ran and waved these palm branches and shouted "Hosanna" when they saw Jesus coming on the donkey.  She said "Hosanna" was a way to praise Him and show Jesus that they recognized Him as the One Who was coming to save them.

But as the week passed by, a lot of people changed their minds and they became very angry about Jesus, and well, Mommie said we will tell more about that next week, but for now we just want to welcome Jesus into our hearts and homes and give Him praise!

Hosanna!!

Blessed is He Who comes in the name of the Lord!

Until next time,

Love,

Lily Grace