Out and About

Life lately. 

One of the corn fields down the road. 

Getting warm. It was about 90 today. 

Country road leading onward. 

Bug on Queen Ann's Lace. 

The resting field.

Sitting in the corn field.

The corn is growing tall.

You might know how much I love walnuts, but if not, now you do. 

Roadside clover

Homemade pizza...

And dinner on the deck while only Dad and I were home. 

The sky above the deck has changed thanks to two trees gone. 

Chop, chop, chop...

The view from Mundo Vista's outdoor chapel. 

The distant rolling hills.

A field at sunset.

A coming storm.

We just got two kittens, and they are adorable. 

This is Miko, named for her raccoon tail. ; )

I am sick now. No fun. But God is still good. 

300! And the Farm

Almost 4 years ago I decided to start a blog of my life. Unlike some people, I never deserted my blog. Haha!

I have posted poems, songs, videos, stories, pictures, and more. I have grown a lot since starting this. I, along with my older sister, took care of my Great-grandma about 6 months before she died at 108. I went to Haiti again, finished high school somewhere along the way, took a few extra classes, worked as a camp counselor twice, went to college twice (haha!), have had three more siblings get married, got three niblings, and a lot more things happened all along the way,

Through it all, God has been faithful. He has shown Himself strong and revealed more of His goodness to me. I have said a lot of mean things and done a lot of stupid stuff, but God is still good and is teaching me to love Him more.

"The LORD passed before him and proclaimed, 'The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.'"

~Exodus 34:6

To commemorate the fact that this marks the 300th post (wow, so amazing...not), I want you to see some pictures from Dad's and my walk last evening to the farm. It was beautiful. 

Enjoy!

Sorry, there are about a bazillion right here. Woops!

A little wild flower bouquet I had put together earlier.

A dead tree in evening sun.

The corn field.

These little guys are in bloom all over the place right now.

Of course, I had to get a clover shot on the old farm road.

The moon looked transparent as the dark spots blended with the sky.

The old grazing field is full of these flowers. After the farmer died, I think they took the horse away. Poor Walnut, I miss you.  

(Haha!)

I couldn't help myself from taking a bunch of pictures. It was so beautiful. 

There was a lot of tall brown grass in the grazing field as well.

The old barn.

I have always wanted to see this little shed up close. We finally decided to walk down there.

It is always neat to see things from a different perspective than you have seen them before.

There goes "Mark Daddy."

From below.

This is just so picturesque.

To the little shed.

Into the sun.

We decided it was probably an old chicken coop.

Sunset from the chicken coop porch.

What a way to end a fine evening.

Back Home in the Woods

I got home on Wednesday with my mom and Lydia. We had some interesting flight circumstances on the way back, but we finally made it. It's been nice to be back in the country, the woods. We haven't done much, but I went to Caraway to apply for kitchen work. After two summers at the camp, it'll be weird being in the kitchen instead. I saw Jesse, but everyone else was gone or sick. Oh, well, I'll see them soon. Jesse told me that Anthony and Walsh still argue a lot. : ) I guess not too much has changed.

Here are some pictures of North Carolina!

Lush green hickory leaves. 

Tyler gave me this book, and I really enjoyed reading it. 

Our country road.

Looking down from the front porch. 

I spent some time out here reading The Scarlet Pimpernel. 

I worked on cleaning up Micah's garden. It looks much better now.

Lydia and I enjoyed an evening walk in the country nearby. 

Hopefully there will be more soon.