Blue Moon Stroll

Psalm 102;28
"The children of Your servants will
continue,
And their descendants will be
established before You."

Sunflowers in Vegetable Garden

In France the fields of sunflowers are very beautiful,
the flowers face toward the sun as do these in our little vegie patch.

"The sun shall not strike you by day,
Nor the moon by night."
Psalm 121:6

HouSeS in HiPPy

Associate with men of good character
if you esteem your own reputation;
for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
inaccurate quote
Washington, George

"Woe unto them that join house to house,
that lay field to field,till there be no place, that
they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
In mine ears said the Lord of hosts, Of a truth many houses
shall be desolate, even great and fair,
without inhabitant."
Isaiah 5:8,9.

Gardening

"Obsolescence is built into computers. That's why it is so hard to preserve any of this digital
material. It rots. It leeches. It decays. On the other hand, paper, which seems so fragile and transient, can last for centuries." Rachael Buchanen
From an article, "Paper Trail: All That Is Digital Melts Into Air." The Age 7/1/12

"A prudent man conceals knowledge: but the heart of fools
proclaims foolishness."
Proverbs 12:23

Greta Lucilla

Exodus 20:15
Thou shalt not steal.

Sackville-West a quote altered slightly;
Travel is the most private of enjoyments.
There is no greater bore than the travel bore.
There is not the least interest in hearing
what he has done in Hong Kong."

Paris s'il vous plait

if you should ever go to Dubai
stay in the Old Quarter
and make sure you try the dates
they must be the most delicious
in the world.

"There is that speaketh like the
piercings of a sword: but the tongue
of the wise is health."
Proverbs 12:18

The Pink and Orange

"Even to your old age and grey hairs I am He, I am He who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you."

Isaiah 46:4

Charles Blackman

 "All the paths of the Lord are
mercy and truth unto such as keep his
covenant and his testimonies."
Psalm 25:10

Ladybug

There once was a story about a girl who all day long looked for ladybugs and couldn't find any, soon she fell asleep under the Tuscan sun and to her surprise woke to find a ladybug on her arm.

"He makes me to lie down in green pastures;

He leads me beside the still waters."
Psalm 23:2

Red Blooms

Get OUt Of DeBT FormUla

"Honor the Lord with your possessions,

And with the firstfruits of all your increase;

So your barns will be filled with plenty,

And your vats will overflow with new wine."

Proverbs 3:9-10

Magoo

Perhaps this is a picture of the son

of Mr Magoo. I used to love watching this cartoon series many

moons ago. It was about an old man who had trouble

seeing, and wore a pair of very thick glasses.

Mr Magoo got himself through lots of would be,  could be,  disasters,

just in the nick of time and he was not aware of the danger

because he couldn't see.

I guess he made lots of mistakes but it never worried him.

It is ok if the house is untidy as long as it is reasonably clean,

It is ok if you make a mistake at work for that is how you learn

It is ok if you fail an exam for you will pass your course if you work a little harder.

"All things I have seen in the days of my vanity:

there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness,

and there is a wicked man that prolongeth

his life in his wickedness.

Be not righteous over much;

neither make yourself over wise:

why shouldest thou destroy thyself?

Ecclesiastes 7:15,16

E in camera sua a riposare.

On Tuesdsay, a friend told me that on a flight from Dubai to

Frankfurt , she engaged in a conversation with a woman who told her

her husband had decided that he no longer wished to be married to her.

They had two children.

My friend asked her if she was a Christian,

would she like her to pray for her.....

Four years later this woman wrote to my friend

and said no-one had ever asked her that question and it challenged her...

She must have sought God and sought the truth for she found faith

and now serves Him for she wrote to my friend after getting her sons to help

source her and told her.

"In returning and rest

you shall be saved;

In quietness and confidence

shall be your strength."

Isaiah 29:15

Una and her Bike

Our son James is in Niger in Africa and a couple of months ago a missionary family gave him a kitten. James was quietly devastated last week when "Mai-kuka" his kitten died of a scorpion bite, he (the kitten) had only recently survived a snake bite. Hence I was greatly comforted when James told me that one night after the kitten died he flicked through his Bible only to stumble on the passage below in Ezekiel. The Lord is in control so why should we fear for the safety of our children...

""And you, son of man, do not be afraid of them nor be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you and you dwell among scorpions; do not be afraid of their words or dismayed by their looks, though they are a rebellious house." Ezekiel2:6

"Blessed is he who considers the poor;

The Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.

The Lord will preserve him

and keep him alive,

And he will be blessed on the earth;

You will not deliver him to the will of his enemies.

The Lord will strengthen him

on his bed of illness;

You will sustain him on his sickbed."

Psalm 41:1-3

This is a promise for you James for your work is nothing else but consideration for the poor and God is not a man that He should lie, He keeps His promises!

Rispettare (to respect)

I borrowed from the library the film "Funny Face"

starring Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire and loved

the song , sung by Audrey and Kay Thompson..

"On how to be lovely,

you gotta be happy

when you can be light and gay

then you'll be lovely as a holiday.

On how to be charming

you gotta be merry...

if only to weave a spell

and you'll be as lovely as a carousel too.

I know you can show how

it's all in the know how

and once you know oh how

the world looks good to you...

as it should to you.

Oh how to be lovely

you got to be jolly

when you can be fancy free

and flash a smile

that folks come flocking to see..

you'll be as lovely as can be.

Can't do it with makeup

you've just got to wake up

and starting to take up

life delirious

nothing serious.

Oh how to be lovely

you've got to be cheery

then you are guaranteed

you don't need doe

or a college degree...

Make sorrow incidental

let joy be monumental

and you'll be lovely..

you'll be as lovely as can be."

"And also, that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labor, it is the gift of God."

Ecclesiastes 3:13

Ms Sopracciglio

This is an

excerpt from the novel "Brideshead Revisited" by Evelyn Waugh:

It made me laugh, I am enjoying this book...

I knew Sebastian by sight long before I met him. That was unavoidable for, from his first week, he was the most conspicuous man of his year by reason of his beauty, which was arresting, and his eccentricities of behaviour, which seemed to know no bounds. My first sight of him was in the door of Germer's, and, on that occasion, I was struck less by his looks than by the fact that he was carrying a large teddy-bear.

"That, said the barber, as I took his chair, 'was Lord Sebastian Flyte. A most amusing young gentleman."

'Apparently,' I said coldly.

'The Marquis of Marchmain's second boy. His brother, the Earl of Brideshead, went down last term. Now he was very different, a very quiet gentleman, quite like an old man. What do you suppose Lord Sebastian wanted? A hair brush for his teddy-bear; it had to have very stiff bristles, not, Lord Sebastian said, to brush him with, but to threaten him with a spanking when he was sulky. He bought a very nice one with an ivory back and he's having "Aloysius" engraved on it- that's the bear's name.'

"That which has been is what will be,

That which is done

is what will be done,

And there is nothing new under the sun."

Ecclesiastes 1:8