It’s May Day!! I hope you make a May Basket for someone or ones special in your life. It’s just plain wonderful to get a knock at the front door and find a hanging basket on the the knob. Hopefully you can bring a smile to some neighbors and loved ones around you today. 🙂
April was a bit disappointing in Iowa. Too many cold days and way too much snow for April. Does May ever disappoint? Not to my recollection. I think it’s my favorite month! The flowers are in full bloom in May. The grass is green. The weather is warm. Well, there’s just no place like Iowa in May. It couldn’t be a more perfect month for the Midwest.
Update on the farming: Corn and bean planting are going very well. There is rain in the forecast, so I imagine tonight will be another late night of planting. Keep the farmers in your prayers. They truly are buring a candle at both ends.
One guy moves this tender from field to field, planter to planter filling the boxes with the soybean or corn seed. Word has it we are finished up on the corn planting, so I’m guessing they are loading with bean seed. It is much quicker and more efficient than the old-fashioned way of dumping bag after bag into the planter boxes, then burning the bags in the field when finished. Lugging those heavy bags from pickup box to planter box is no small task. (I can tell you this from experience.) 🙂 And, no, I don’t miss it. 🙂
Now…….on to another subject:
Jen and I took a quick trip to Southern California last week to watch Addison perform in the musical, The Lion King, put on by Christian Youth Theater, a nation-wide organization.We weren’t allowed to take pictures during the performance, but here are a few post-show pics. She was the cutest little cheetah I ever did see, with all the make-up and garb!
And I’m also bringing you some photos of the beautiful coast again, specifically La Jolla Cove just north of San Diego. Just can’t get enough of the sunshine, water, flowers, sights and sounds of the coast.
More flowers. These are kind of like rose moss, a succulent we grow here in Iowa. Unfortunately I don’t know the names of tropical flowers very well.
Just up the hill and across the street are high-rise apartments and high-end shops. Wow! What a view! Cannot imagine the cost of an apartment in that building!
The day we went to the beach we got to sit inon a high school surfing competion right in front of us which was a lot of fun to see. I enjoyed listening to the music from “The Beach Boys” singing about California Girls as the high schools gals were competing. There’s always a sport to see no matter what part of the planet you’re on.
Every time we go we see and do some pretty unique and amazing things. We are certainly taking in every moment and loving the memories of our blessed California family and the beauty of the landscape. Thank you, Lord, for Your beautiful creation. We are overwhelmed!
Psalm 104:1-9
“Bless the Lord, O my soul! O Lord my God you are very great! You are clothed with splendor and majesty, covering Yourself with light as with a garment,
stretching out the heavens like a tent.
He lays the beams of His chambers on the waters; He makes the clouds His chariot; He rides on the wings of the wind; He makes His messengers winds, His minister a flaming fire. He set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be moved.
You covered it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains. At Your rebuke they fled; at the sound of Your thunder they took to flight.
The mountains rose, the valleys sank down to the place that You appointed for them. You set a boundary that they may not pass,
so that they might not again cover the earth.
To God be the glory.
