Shadow Shot Sunday Photo Shop of God's love

I am joining shadow shot sunday, click here to got to Hey Harriet and check out the other SSS pictures and Spiritual Sunday you can click here to go there and read so wonderful inspirations
This morning I got up early as I always do, (old habits are hard to break) and walked into my kitchen to make my coffee and come visit with you, my friends.
I have my Surprise flower (my orchid) sitting in my kitchen window and the morning sun was just beautiful shining through the bright yellow petals. Well you know where this is going..:-), yes I grabbed my camera and took pictures, the orchid framed by the window and the sun streaming in was a perfect picture. To the human eye it was perfect, but looking though the eye of the camera, it wasn't, all the little imperfections like the dirty window, all the dirt and grim showed up, even as the beautiful light of the sun highlighted the beauty of the orchid so too did it highlight the imperfections of the surrounding window. 

It is also true with our lives, to the human eye so many of our lives are picture perfect, but when the camera of God shines on our lives, he sees all our little flaws and sins. We may hide them from the rest of the world, but we can not hide them from him. As photoshop would be the saving grace for my pictures, God is the saving Grace for our lives, for only he can take our lives and make them picture perfect. Doesn't God's love shine through to us, no matter how dirty or unattractive our lives or our world may be? If we open our hearts and lives to him, doesn't he take away all the dirt and grime to show the world our true inner beauty? Doesn't his love, clean up our flawed, sin filled lives, just as photoshop cleans up our flawed pictures?
I hope you have a wonderful Sunday, and may your lives be filled with sunshine and love.

Several days ago Janie posted pictures of her beautiful Loropetalum bushes, they were so lovely. I just had to check mine out. About 1 1/2 years ago we had a new roof put on and I was just heart broken cause the guy who was moving the dump truck around the house to throw the old shingles in, ran over the only bush that I had. It was planted to cover the Heat and Cooling unit. It's a wonder he did hit the unit too.. I was furious, took all my will power not to say anything..., but DH said, don't worry it will come back. Well he was right ( as bad as I hate to admit it) here are a few pictures I took this morning. When it was hit it was almost as tall as the house and not very thick. I admit I was going to thin it and cut it shorter, BUT not that short...isn't it beautiful now?...

I am loving this beautiful weather..I even had a little visitor come up to the window this morning, then ran to the park bench in my yard and sit there as if to say "Good Morning, want to take my picture? I'll pose"

there he goes to the bench

Is this a good pose??

Why yes a close up would be nice..thank you.

Hope you have a blessed day..be sure and look around you, God's love and beauty are every where.

I'm joining Simple pleasures again over at A Collection of this and that...Click on picture above to join or check us out.

Most everyone that reads my blog, know that about a year & 1/2 or so ago, I bought a new camera, not just a point and shot but a "takes a genius to operate kind"..lol..which I'm not. And a monster was born, I have to give credit to Janie over at Southern Lagniappe for getting me interested in taking pictures. If you've never stopped by her blog check it out. You will be amazed at her talent.
With that being said, that is my today's Simple Pleasure, the wonderful friends I have made since I started blogging, the pleasure of sitting down with a cup of coffee first thing every morning and reading my new friends blogs, friends I'd never met if not for blogging. Some I know I will never met except at the computer every morning. But from each and everyone I have learned something new.
Sandie at Chatty Crone, who has helped me understand so much about my Granddaughter.
Ramona at The Japanese Redneck, who makes me laugh with her cute picture of her cats and their playful antics and pictures of her beautiful horses.
Al over at Al's Photography, his views and pictures of our Western States will take your breath away and he allows me to travel with him in my mind to places I may never get to see again.
Dayle at A Collection of this and that for giving us the opportunity to met others and learn of their Simple Pleasures
Sally over at. Smiling Sally I have really enjoyed my Monday's spend checking out all the blues there are out there..
I don't want anyone to think cause I didn't list them they are less important..all my friends are important and I learn from them all, Corgi Mom, Counting my Blessings, Home in the Hollow,  Lawn Tea, West Virgina Treasures, Corgi Dog News, the list goes on and on. I would be here all day if I listed everyone and the joy they bring me
So I will just say my Simple Pleasure is my friends and all they have taught me in the last 2 yrs.
Below are a few friends that visited me this morning..Thanks Janie and Al for your inspiration.

I hope you have a wonderful day and remember our greatest gifts are those we call Family and Friends.

Who have you touched today with your words and actions?

Show and Tail Tuesday..Oh No he didn't

OK first let me say I had my Eye Dr appointment yesterday and got some good news and some bad..Good news....first even though I do have cataracts, they are not causing enough problems to warrent surgery yet. The bad news is though I have a problem that is quite common, my psoriasis is causing it too be more severe than normal. He said my eyes look like very course sand paper and that I do not make my own tears...so I will have to use drops at least 12-15 times aday and use a sauve every morning and night..Lord how I hate to follow a routine everyday like that. BUT I thank our Dear Lord that it is not any worse than that. And that it can be treated by simply doing all of this. I will still have times when the light and wind cause me to have to back away from the computer or shape light sources but at least it is not totally sight threatening. SO WE MOVE ALONG AND CONTINUE WITH LIFE.....

It's time for Show and Tail Tuesday over at Angela's place West Virgina Treasures stop by and check her out.

Today I have a little story to tell in pictures, last week I was sitting at my favorite spot, my bedroom window over looking the pasture and my bird feeder when I noticed a single little Dove trying to eat seed from the ground under the feeder, I say trying cause poor thing was met with a hail of squalks and flapping wings...

I have counted as many as 20 Red Bird on this side of the yard in the big tree and around the feeder, they really won't let any other birds get near the feeder any more. They are so mean, pretty but mean...lol..they even show me disrespect when they catch me watching them..lol..I took this set of pictures right after watching them run the Dove off, one female noticed me watching them and just stared at me, then she chripped to the male who was setting on the feeder pole..watch what he did to me..."oh no he didn't"

LOL, Momma bird forgot to tell him you don't disrespect the hand that feeds you.

Hope you have a bright and beautiful day, and remember to watch those birds, you never know what you will see.

Today I'm joining Smiling Sally for Blue Monday..please join her here for more BLUES. 2 weeks ago, I told you about Baby girl being Baptized and having her first Holy Communion..Well our whole family was there to celebrate with her...and several of us wore Blue..

After the service was over, the whole family and Baby Girl's God Parents went to a Restaurant that Baby Girl picked out, ..An Italian place called BRAVO!, there were 19 of us. Thank Goodness Mindy had called in advance and let them know we were coming, we still had to wait 35 minutes for an area big enough for us all.

I just loved this shot, Redman loved the flavored oil with his bread or as Keifer said, he loved a little bread with his oil..lol..that's all he ate, look at Keifer's expression as he is checking him out (notice the beautiful BLUE shirt, Redman had on)

Redman's Mom and Dad was also checking him out..Baby Girl's God Father was wearing a nice blue shirt

Baby Boy and TT also had on Blue..it was still a little nippy so TT had on a denim jacket over her blue dress.

and last but not least, really not least..is DH and I, I was also wearing blue..you can tell DH was really excited about having his picture made or could it be he was getting hungry,

we got there at 12:30 and it was 2:45 before we were served our lunch...it was a nice place and the food was very good, for the price it should have been, but the serve was extremely slow. Our waiter was fantastic. All in all we had a wonderful time just laughing and sharing the evening with family and good friends and it was the perfect end to a very Special day for our Baby Girl...

Hope you all have a special week and Blue skies over head.