Seeing through new lenses

Well, I just selected and ordered my new camera that is my gift for Christmas from my husband.

It was a week long ordeal of comparing and deciding.  I know I will be in love!

So........

I needed to get in one last log of pictures before the big switcheroo to the new one....

Here are lots of just random shots from the last few weeks.....enjoy...

A beautiful tablescape that never got posted, some sweet dog pictures and catching the sunlight just right one morning...after the few Christmas shots....
Well, well...I got some pictures posted in December after all..

Merry Christmas y'all..

Love,
Mona

Sunrise, Sunset

From the rising of the sun to the setting, I will praise Him..

How can anyone look at this marvelous world we live in and not believe in God?  creation is a gift that seems too good to be true but it is true...every exquisite little bud and every fragrance that stops me in my tracks.......and the consistency of nature..there is ALWAYS something blooming...and growing..and the colors, oh, the colors.....no man could ever do it as well as our Creator....I hope you can see a little bit of what I have seen this morning through my camera lens.....it is remarkable....

Loropetalum

azalea

blueberry

oak tree

snowball viburnum

azalea

carolina jasmine

bridal wreath spirea

creeping phlox and iris

and just to stay true to the title of this blog.....here are a couple of pictures of the night sky taken with the grandsons..they were so interested in the moon and it was FULL..Will had been studying about the solar system..
can you see the planet too? any idea which one it is?  I need Will here..

eastern night sky

full moon

these are untouched by any photo enhancing..I think they turned out pretty good for a point and shoot camera.


I am so glad you stopped by today...I hope you come again soon...can't believe I have just embarked on my third year of blogging... thanks for all of your encouragement....

Dawn to Dusk

It doesn't take much for some things to get started..lots of times it just takes a decision to do it..to make the first move...the teeny tiny small beginning...the things that happen in the dark where nobody else can see us....inside of our heart..that is where the beginning of most things hides out...simple, small but every bit as true and real as something huge and seen...we have those things that reside in the deep places of our souls...where no one can see but we know they are there...they are what make up who we are..that makes us an original created being..
uniquely YOU!


Several days ago, I picked up a seed packet of moonflower seeds and headed to the garden...I planted 3 seeds..covered them and watered them..in 3 days, this is what I found..  we all have seeds in our heart that need to be planted...plant them...make the decision and do it.....nothing is any more exciting to me than watching for the seeds to break through and begin to grow....every morning I go out to discover what new seedlings have come up during the night....

    Here is the rose we call Granny because I got a cutting from Bryan's Granny's house and rooted it..she blooms   all summer and smells absolutely like a rose should smell.

    red Achillea or yarrow   ....loving these flowers this year..

    heirloom garlic from my Mamama's yard many years ago..

    my first opening daylily..it is slooooooooooow...

                       blue salvia....

                       cinammon basil...

                 this will be sunflowers soon..

                  tomatoes on one side of fence and peas on the other..

                      mountain mint

day is done, gone the sun......and so is another day in the life of this gardener....
thank you for visiting my blog and reading along here....