It Was A Bright Sunny Yellow Kind of Day

Happy Saturday Morning!

Mommie is typing this on Friday night, but she said we won't let you see it until tomorrow morning, so it will be Saturday when you read this. So that is why I said "Happy Saturday Morning" even though it is still Friday! 

Anyway, today, (Friday), was a "bright, sunny, yellow kind of day".

I think, according to the weather report for Saturday on Mommie's phone, it will be a cloudy, rainy, cold and dreary kind of a day, so this little bit of bright sunny yellow should make your day happier! 

I hope so!

For my dear identical cousin Tracie and her Mommie Auntie Debbi and their new friend Amybelle, I wanted you to see these pretty yellow "Carolina Jessamine" flowers again. They are blooming so brightly right now! They are growing all over the little fence next to our house and in the trees, and well, just everywhere we look! They are SO pretty! I wanted you to see them, because they must have come from "Carolina", where you live!

And then, we saw something else so pretty and yellow all day long! Mommie bought a new sock full of finch seeds because the other one was almost empty, so she actually bought a bigger one this time because we have SO many bright yellow pretty Goldfinches eating here every day!

They even like to drink from Bobby the Squirrel's bird bath!

They hang upside down and all around this sock, and they actually fight for a place on here to eat!

Can you imagine fighting for a place to eat on a sock? I thought that was kind of funny!

The birds are starting to get more brightly colored every day. Mommie says they do that in the spring, especially the male Goldfinches.

Some even wait in the trees for their turn on the sock feeder:

Isn't this a pretty one?

Uh Oh! Mr. Great Blue Heron came tip toeing along the shore of Still Waters Pond today, in the bright sunlight! Mommie says most of the time he comes earlier in the morning or late afternoon, and we rarely see him in the bright sunny part of the day. We hope he isn't looking for our little birds...that would not be very nice. We will keep a watch on him. Even if he is pretty, and has a bright yellowish golden bill!

He sure has a long neck!

Mr. or Mrs. Bluebird did not come out of their house while Mr. Heron was about...

Here is something else that is kind of bright, sunny yellow: The sunset!!! The sun was going down down down behind those trees, and it was a bright golden yellow ball...so bright we couldn't look at it with our bare eyes. But it sure was pretty!

And here is something else that has some pretty yellow on it. Today's special prayer/verse card:

Mommie said she is going to change these every day...or then again, she is thinking maybe she should just change it every week, and try to memorize the verse.  She's not sure which yet, but I think it is a good idea to have a new verse each day to think about and pray and share with our friends here.

What do YOU think? 

Mommie said the main thing is to read the verse and then to do whatever it says to do. In this case, we are to

"Be JOYFUL in HOPE", 

which means to be filled will joy while we hope for the things God has promised to do for us, even when we may not see those things happen right away.

"Be PATIENT in affliction", 

which means that even when we may be hurting or sad, or waiting for healing, that we should be patient and wait on God and not give up hope.

"BE FAITHFUL in PRAYER"

means to keep on praying, even when we don't see the answers to our prayers as soon as we had hoped.

We should keep trusting God and keep praying

and never give up hope!

I think those are some good things to remember, don't you?  The easy way to remember it for me is like they are special little honey bees:

BEE JOYFUL, 

BEE PATIENT, 

BEE FAITHFUL.

And I can imagine that if we follow those special little "bees", 

we will BEE Happy!!

I hope you have a bright sunny yellow and happy kind of a day

wherever you are! Even if it is raining...BEE HAPPY!

Bye Bye for now!

Love,

Lily Grace

xoxoxoxoxo

 

Friday Foto Friends with Lily Grace

Happy Friday!  Mommie said today we are supposed to share some special photos from the week that we haven't already shared. Mommie said she might have already shown you this one of me sending out my Valentine cards, but she thought it was worth showing again!  I had SO much fun writing the little cards to my special friends and family. And I especially had fun with those cute little ink stamps with hearts and kisses  and hugs on them. All my cards and envelopes were stamped all over with lots of love!!! I wish I had enough cards to send to all of you too, but Mommie said this can be our special Valentine Card to everyone.

She said Valentine's Day isn't until Sunday, but it's okay to wish everyone a Happy Valentine's Day today too so they can feel the "love" all weekend long!!

And today I am SO excited, 'cause  Mommie and I are going over to my Auntie Pamela's house and have a little Valentine's Party today with her special friend Sunshine Joy! So Mommie said I could wear my party dress!  I am sure we will have a lot MORE pictures to share later, but this will have to do for now.

Yesterday morning Mommie and I took a walk around our yard, and we both wore our boots because the grass was wet! Mommie's boots are really "snazzy".  That's a word she taught me.

I was so excited to find some more pretty fairy flowers blooming in the yard, so we picked a little bouquet!

We walked around to another place where we could see the pond, but there were so many spider webs in the grasses that we decided not to try to walk through. It was a very foggy morning and the dew was heavy on the ground, so we could really see a lot of spider webs. 

Mommie said these are interesting, but we didn't wat to get tangled up in them...

That would be a real mess if I got it in my hair!! 

So then we walked around to another place and saw these pretty little yellow flowers blooming on a vine. 

Mommie said it is a Carolina Jessamine vine!  I said, "Carolina?" That's where my Auntie Debbi and Identical cousin Tracie live! That's where I came from!!!"

Mommie said, yes, that is true! We may have to name this a Debbi and Tracie flower to remember them by!  So Auntie Debbi and Tracie, if you are reading this, these flowers are for YOU!!

Then we took my little bouquet of fairy flowers inside and put them in the sweet little Lily of the Valley tea pot!  I love that this tea pot has my name on it!!  Well, the flower has my name on it! Mommie said that the Lily of the Valley is also mentioned in the Bible.  I asked her to show me where.

Mommie said there is a lot of information about the flower called the lily in the Bible as well as the term "Lily of the Valley". She said it would be better to attach this link for further information because there was too much to put right here: 

http://www.learnthebible.org/the-lily-of-the-valley.html

Now for some fun pictures from one of our walks in the woods last week.

There was lots of pretty green mosses growing on the ground: 

I called it "fairy moss", because I can just imagine little fairies frolicking around these pretty green patches of moss!

Mommie said it was interesting how the mosses were growing amongst some broken down fence posts and wire that was just laying there on the forest floor.

And then we found this rusty old bedspring tangled up in the brush

Mommie said it's amazing the interesting things we can find in the woods, but we have to be careful where we walk so we don't trip and fall over this stuff!  

Wow, so many different kinds of mosses and Mommie called them "fungi". She said they grow on old wood that is rotten, because they need the decaying material to "eat" so they can live on it. Or something like that. I don't think I'd like to eat decayed wood, but the fungi and mushrooms love it, and that is also a part of God's creation, Mommie said!

Wow! Look at this big old dead tree!! I bet the woodpeckers have liked pecking away at this one!! Mommie says they like to pick bugs and stuff out of dead trees...

And here's this one. I said it looked like a man with his legs up in the air!  Mommie and I both laughed at that thought!  You can see the woodpecker has pecked a lot of holes in this one too.

Well, Mommie says we need to get ready to go to our party, so I have to go. But here is the pretty sunset from over Still Waters Pond from last night! Isn't it beautiful?

Another of God's beautiful creation!!

God sure makes everything beautiful and interesting, doesn't He?

Mommie says we are blessed to live in such a wonderful world...and we should thank God every day for all the good things He does for us.  Sometimes we get upset at the news and when bad things happen, but if we stop and give thanks to the Lord for the beauty around us and the good things we find, it helps us to feel better and be happy.

So I hope this will help make you feel better and be happy today too!

Bye Bye for now.

Love,

Lily Grace