Searching for a Balance

 It’s not quite seventy degrees today. And by that, what I really mean is, it’s thirty degrees cooler than it was yesterday.  it was not thi...

 "St. John's narrative of the Resurrection opens on the morning of the first day of the week. It is still dark - just the way it wa...

 It's the last Sunday of the liturgical year, the feast of Christ the King. This would be celebrated at the end, because proclaiming som...

 I finished C.S. Lewis book. Toward the end, there was a section that seemed so dense and I decided that I didn't have to read every wor...

It is entirely spring-like today; I saw a neighbor pruning his grape vines earlier. Why not? Although I know nothing of grapevines. It's...

 There was a spectacular sunset and I almost missed it. I just happened to go to the front of the house for something, and wow!  The camera ...

 Advent began a week ago, and with it I started on the Christmas cards. I figured out that if I do five cards each night, I'll have plen...

 The very rainy weather pattern we were in seems over, and it's actually been September-like at times, in the high seventies and how eig...

I am already finished with the reading challenge I was following! I didn't expect it. It's the third year they've issued one, an...

 I finally saw a rabbit today; I've been looking. The little chickadee still flutters over my brother's car when he's home, and ...

My brother's little rustic tree which I always put in the kitchen is really a tangle of raffia or long straw. I decided to trim it while...

They paved our road today; with many large trucks and other vehicles, rolling and flattening; men tamping down the asphalt around the edg...

We thought, last Thursday, the road would soon be paved, because they were putting down more dirt and rolling over it to flatten it out. ...

I had almost entirely forgot about the basil, and last night's temperatures in the twenties almost did it in.

I guess I'm a bit behindhand with the photos lately.....but I didn't take a picture. My brother asked me to look at his summer sport...

I'm finally finishing up a summer dress I started way back when; I'm ready to hem it. I had pinned this image from Anna's webs...

O God, whose only begotten Son  has appeared in our very flesh,  grant, we pray, that we may be inwardly transformed through him wh...

I quickly cut back the rose bushes today - just two. There were so many red ones! They're now in a pitcher in the kitchen. And th...

When I sew, I tend to take my time; I am prone to hastiness, which often leads to error, which I then have to fix. But I do think it takes m...

I had two small skeins of this very vibrant yarn. When I was preparing for work last Wednesday - the day it reached 77 degrees - I...