The promise of Spring...

"My mouth is filled with your praise, declaring your splendor all day long." Pslams 71:8

Well, out here on our old gravel road there are too many signs of splendid spring to count. We went for a walk the other evening and I couldn't stop capturing the images with my camera. Promises of spring. Renewal. Awakening. Reminders of all the amazing things God has created.

The columbine right outside the backdoor is reappearing.

The maple trees have buds.

My favorite tree, not sure what it is (even the Master Gardener in the family couldn't identify it) it has buds too!

There are tadpoles and minnows in the pond.


And fresh bright green moss in covering the ground in the apple orchard. It's too early for buds on the apple and cherry trees, but the orchard is greening up!

We walked down our road and the magnolia tree has buds just waiting to burst forth...

There's muddy tractor tracks in the fields, proving the ground has finally thawed!

And, the winter red wheat is growing rapidly.


The last sign spring is near...Carl and Buddy were in the golf cart!

Here's the only family portraits I could get of us on our first walk of the season and year.

It's our shadows...see Isaiah's leg and arm dangling? He just looked around and took everything in.

Ike was in doggie heaven. He has to have cabin fever.

Even though spring isn't my favorite season, there's something about it that moves me the most. I see all of the beauty and wonder in creation and can't fathom how there are some who don't believe. It's too marvelous and magnificent to be created by anyone other than the Great I AM.

"The Spirit of God has made me; the breath of the Almighty gives me life." Job 33:4

"For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse." Romans 1:20