Ice Cream Sundaes and Magnolias Blossoms

Matthew 18: 2-5

"2 Then Jesus called a little child to Him, set him in the midst of them, 3. and said, “Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven. 4.  Therefore whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 5.  Whoever receives one little child like this in My name receives Me."

Mommie is feeling kind of "punky" this morning, so she said I should write the post for today 'cause she didn't feel up to it.  

So I said I would share our pictures from this past weekend and try to tell about it instead.  So, to start out, that picture above is me having my first bowl of ice cream! It's been pretty hot here in Florida where we live, and ice-cream seems to be the best way to cool down ever! Especially if it has some chocolate syrup, chopped walnuts, and whipped cream on top! Mommie said they call that an "Ice Cream Sundae",  I don't understand why it is called a "Sundae". I think we ate this on Saturday, not Sunday!  Well, because I like to learn new things, we looked up the history of ice cream sundaes on the computer, and we were really surprised to see so much information. HERE IS a LINK to the History of the Ice Cream Sundae. You might find it interesting too.

Speaking of Sunday, Mommie and Daddy went out to lunch after church on Sunday with their church friends. They went to a different place than where they usually go, and they had these two signs (along with some others) on the walls.  Mommie said they say some really good things, so she wanted me to share them with you.

On Saturday morning, Mommie and Daddy took a long ride, about 30 miles away, to the town where they used to live before they moved here to this house.  They wanted to go out to breakfast and then go to the flea market down there because it is a bigger one than the one we have here.

Anyway, they went to this little restaurant for breakfast, which used to be a favorite place to go when they lived there.

Here's a sign that was on the wall next to them:

While they were waiting for their food to be cooked, Daddy was uncomfortable in the booth seat he was sitting in because the cushion was worn out and too low, making him sit in a kind of a hole. So he was going to get up and move by Mommie, because she had chairs to sit in on her side of the table. Anyway, when he tried to get up he put his hand on the table to push himself up since he was so low, and the table legs were not level and the table tilted and their hot coffee and hot tea spilled and got his pants all wet. Thankfully it wasn't boiling hot, but hot enough and WET enough to make him very uncomfortable. He tried to dry off with paper towels and they moved to a different table to wait for their food, but it was taking way too long and he was miserable, so they paid for the coffee and tea and left the restaurant. They never did get to go to the flea market.  Sadly they did not get to enjoy that little ride very much. 

Now on to some pretty stuff: This big beautiful magnolia tree across the street from us is starting to really blossom:

Mommie took me over to see the magnolia blossoms and to smell them:

Look how big this flower is! It's as big as me!

They are so pretty, and they smell like a sweet lemon!

Mommie cut one and put it in a bowl of water on the table so we could enjoy it. However, the smell was so strong we ended up having to put it out on the back porch! It smelled good, but just too much of it!! 

Remember when Mommie wrote about "Puckery Persimmons" HERE last year?

Well, Mommie said she never remembered seeing any flowers blossom on the Persimmon  trees before the persimmons developed. And so she wanted to check the trees where we walk because they just got their spring leaves back real pretty, and she wanted to see if they had some kind of flower.

Well, when we got up close to the tree and looked under the leaves, there were these pretty little yellow flowers blooming and forming little tiny persimmons!

So now we know why we never saw the flowers blooming last year! They were hidden under the leaves! But aren't they cute and dainty?  However, Mommie said remember, don't eat those wild persimmons until they are really really really ripe!  

Mommie said it's been kind of lonely out on Still Waters Pond since the Canada Geese and their little goslings all went away.  But she looked outside yesterday afternoon and saw something big in the Secret Memorial Garden.

It was that Sand Hill Crane family that we saw a couple of weeks ago out on the little marshy sand bar in the pond:

Here's the Daddy Crane:

Isn't he so "handsome" with his bright red head?

And here's the whole family, Mama, Daddy and Baby Crane:

They were trying to figure out how to get back to that marsh island:

And they made it! They stayed there all afternoon eating whatever is good on that mucky marshy sliver of land.

Mommie said it's time to close this post and go fix some lunch. I guess I am getting hungry thinking about ice cream sundaes and food at restaurants (or not!), and watching these Sand Hill Cranes eat.  So I will close this post and say bye bye for now.

I hope you enjoyed visiting with me today. Mommie sends her love to all of you and she'll try to get around to visit you soon.

Here's a little verse in my devotional book that Auntie Opal gave me:

"He gives food to every living thing.

His faithful love endures forever."

Psalm 136:25 NLT

Bye Bye!

Love,

Lily Grace