Saturday July 25 2015   SHORTEST BLOG EVER

I promise this will be the shortest blog ever.  My hours are few and my work is long.  I have a five hour post production photo job ahead today to prepare a musical DVD and presentation for the family I photographed this week, as their baby’s funeral is tomorrow.  I just found that out earlier today as I was leaving for a previous commitment.  So I am home now.  The images are being uploaded onto my machine as I type this.  So, I need to cut my blog short as it is now 4:13 p.m.

An update on my soup foray last evening.  I finished at 12:30 a.m.  All 14 quarts of soups were bottled, waiting to cool for the freezer.  At 2:00 a.m. I checked on them but they were not cool enough.  At 4:00 a.m. they were perfect!  I also made a vegetable strata and had it in the fridge soaking overnight (according to recipe).

When I got up and realized how big that strata was I made last night.  We called a friend and asked if we could bring lunch over.  She has such an amazing yard and Dave had never seen it.  Dave is friend with her husband but men just don’t seem to get together like we women do so he had never been over to their house.  We were leaving when I received the phone call to have the photos ready by tomorrow.  So now we are home and now I will do it.

We had a great time at our friend’s house.  Christy is a gardener, both flowers and vegetables.  They have a large lot on the outskirts of town and I think every square inch of their property is in production of something.  They have 20 different kinds of apple trees, peach, nectarine and some others I can’t remember.  Berries galore grow around their yard with names so different I can’t remember them.  She has currents and sent me home with some of her black current jam.  She also sent me home with a couple bags of MORE FOOD!  Picked right from the garden, of which she raises everything possible.  I’ve included a few pictures of their yard.  I forgot to ask permission to use their picture so I won’t include any with people included.  We had a delightful afternoon.  My goal yesterday was to work and get all my work done so I would have no work to do today.  Maybe that was a good thing because it allows me to have the block of time to work up the baby photo session.

On the way to Christy’s house I stopped and took a few pictures on the highway that I traveled on when I spoke about seeing with new eyes.  The light was not perfect like it was a few days ago because it was later in the day, but I will include a few photos of what I saw as I traveled to the east side where they live.  I ask myself, “How could I choose to live anywhere else”?  I must be fickle because wherever I am always seems to be “the most beautiful place”.  Perhaps that is because the Lord resides within me and wherever I am with Him, is the most beautiful place to be.

SO THE PRESENT NEVER ENDS

By Kathleen Martens

July 25, 2015

When I stop to think about my day,

So still time seems to be.

Each moment is lived unto itself

For my spirit lives so free.

It is the indwelling of the Spirit of God

Of whom I am aware.

He set my course in eternity

And the present is what we share.

Forever I will continually live,

So the present never ends.

Because I live in peace and joy

With Jesus who is my friend.

I’m done!  You see it is short and it is only 5:05 p.m.  Time to go to work!