Golfing Man

Look out, it's Golfing Man! This topiary is in the yard of a house that sits right beside our golf course. I took these pictures a few years ago. But if you look at my header, you will see the picture I took this week. Golfing Man has gotten quite fat and unkempt. I believe the older people in the house can no longer keep him trim. He may even be turning into a regular bush! So without these pictures, no one would know that once, he was a fine golfer. Farewell, Golfer.

“My teaching, let it fall like a gentle rain, my words arrive like morning dew, like a sprinkling rain on new grass, like spring showers on the garden.”

Deuteronomy 32

The Lily Pads

This is my last post on the giant Lego creations. But I hope to go back on a cooler day and find more! This is the giant lily pads. All made out of Lego blocks, of course! Now if only there was a Lego frog on them!

 “I’ll turn the baked-clay badlands into a cool pond, the waterless waste into splashing creeks.” 

Isaiah 41

Giant Hummingbird

Here is the other giant Lego display we saw. You can see how big it is because my friend Karen is standing beside it. And you can also see the individual Legos. I think I liked this one more than the butterfly.  A hovering masterpiece.

“David looked up and saw the angel hovering between earth and sky…” 

2 Samuel: 24

Giant Butterfly

I was out walking with my girlfriend, and this giant butterfly attacked us!

It then flew off and started to chase others!

O.K., the truth is that we went to see a display of giant butterflies made from Lego blocks. This butterfly is made with over 37,000 pieces! We look miserable because it was so hot that we could not walk through and see everything. Here is a close-up shot where you can see the individual Legos! On my next post, I will show you what else we saw.

“This was back in the days (and also later) when there were giants in the land.”

Genesis 6

The Red Planet

For the last few days, Mars has been so close to earth that you can see it with your bare eyes. In the southeast, it is the biggest and brightest star in the sky, twinkling red.

Go ahead and laugh, but I just HAD to try. I do not have a fancy camera or a tripod, but I do have a good zoom. I did not change the color of these pictures, it was RED, turning more purplish after midnight.

“They conveniently forget that long ago all the galaxies and this very planet were brought into existence out of watery chaos by God’s word.” 

2 Peter 3

A Fishy Shopping Tale

I had just donated something to Goodwill, and I spotted this in the donation center

A little round white bookcase shaped like a fishbowl, with fish on the sides. I was delighted! I asked if they would put a price sticker on it and bring it out on the floor. They did, and we bought it! Of course, it goes in the girl's playroom. It is all wood and very heavy. Not bad for six dollars.

The cats love it, and think it's their new toy. They like to chase each other around and through it.They will probably like it more than the girls will! 

“God keeps track of the decent folk; what they do won’t soon be forgotten. In hard times, they’ll hold their heads high; when the shelves are bare, they’ll be full.”

 Psalm 37

Row On Row

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row...
John McCrae

No poppies here. Just rows and rows of white markers. This is the Veteran's Cemetery in Staunton, Va.

“Sorrow makes us all children again — destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“…we know that when these bodies of ours are taken down like tents and folded away, they will be replaced by resurrection bodies in heaven.”

2 Cor. 5