Baby Bath - Day 343

The belly cord is still inside, so our sweet Emma cannot yet have a bath.  This requires much extra work as we try and give her a sponge bath.  She does not like it.  I however, love the experience.

A new baby is like the beginning of all things, hope, a dream of possibilities.

Children reinvent your world for you.

As a mother, my job is to take care of what is possible, and trust God with the impossible.  

Ruth Bell Graham

"A babe in the house is a wellspring of pleasure, 

a messenger of peace and love, 

a resting place for innocence on earth, 

a link between angels and men."  

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.

Deepak Chopra

Guests - Day 342

We opened up the back patio door of my daughter's house to discover these guests sitting on the back lawn.  They even gave me a moment to go get the camera, but got a little skittish when I tried to sneak up on them.  I thought they were so beautiful! 

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.  ~John Muir

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting - a wayside sacrament.  Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty... is the shadow of God on the universe.  ~Gabriela Mistral, Desolacíon

New Baby - Day 341

I am totally busy loving on a new grandbaby, and not where I can download pictures today.  Hopefully, I will have everything fixed up tomorrow so that I can download and post this week.  This is straight off the camera phone.  I totally love the picture, just wish it was with my better camera.  

Teeny Tiny Blooms - Macro Friday - Day 340

Linking up with Blogging From Bolivia today for another Macro Friday.  I hope to see you there.  There are always so many beautiful pictures!  These blooms are about the size of a little fingernail.  I thought they were lovely.  

"Where flowers bloom so does hope."

- Lady Bird Johnson

Weeds Can Be Beautiful! - Day 339

A weed is a plant that has

mastered every survival skill 

except for learning 

how to grow in rows. 

 ~Doug Larson

 What is a weed?

I have heard it said 

that there are sixty definitions. 

 For me, a weed is a plant out of place. 

 ~Donald Culross Peattie

Spots of Yellow - Day 338

When summer gathers up her robes of glory,
And, like a dream, glides away.
~ Sarah Helen Whitman

"Ah, summer, 

what power you have to make us suffer 

and like it." 

Russell Baker

Everybody Wants To Be A Cat! - Day 337

"No matter how much cats fight, there always seems to be plenty of kittens." -Abraham Lincoln

"After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference."-Charlotte Gray