Happy 4th of July!

Hello dear ones,

"If we ever forget that we are 

One Nation Under God,

then we will be a nation gone under."

~Ronald Reagan

(Source)

Home Sweet Home

"I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives.  I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him."

~Abraham Lincoln

May your days be fruitful wherever you are!

With much love,

Encore

Hello dear ones,
We took some time off last summer, and when we came back home this is what it greet us.

(Click photos to enlarge)

My dear husband planted a total of twenty of this Crape Myrtle.  The first ones (10) that he planted, six of them died and the other four we transplanted to the backyard.  The reason why the trees died was because we had to much rain in that season.  So the next year we when back to the nursery and bought ten more.  This time we pick Crape Myrtles with a more intensive color, and I'm  so glad for that, because the color of the new ones are so vivid.  When everything  start to fade away late in summer time, I know that the best is yet to come. 

Crape Myrtle

Do you know the name of this flower?

I hope you enjoyed the vivid colors of that awesome season . . . Summer!  I'm looking forward for vibrant colors in a near future!  What about you, sweet friend?

Blessings,

 

I'm joining . . .

Cindy for Show and Tell Friday

Sandi for HOME Party

America the Beautiful

O beautiful for spacious skies,

For amber waves of grain,

For purple mountain majesties

Above the fruited plain!

America!   America!

God shed His grace on thee

And crown thy good with brotherhood

From sea to shining sea!

O beautiful for pilgrim feet,

Whose stern, impassioned stress

A thoroughfare for freedom beat

Across the wilderness!

America!   America!

God mend thine every flaw,

Confirm thy soul in self-control,

Thy liberty in law!

O beautiful for heroes proved

In liberating strife,

Who more than self their country loved,

And mercy more than life!

America!   America!

May God thy gold refine

Till all success be nobleness

And every gain divine!

O beautiful for patriot dream

That sees beyond the years

Thine alabaster cities gleam

Undimmed by human tears!

America!   America!

God shed His grace on thee

And crown thy good with brotherhood

From sea to shining sea!

~Katherine Lee Bates

God bless America!

Happy 4th of July!

XOXO

Bless Our Home!

Welcome to our home...     

Whether you come in to visit,
or just to rest,
when you enter our home,
may you be blessed.

                                      

Bless this home as we come and go . . .
   
                                     

 Bless this home as the children grow . . .

                                      

Bless our families when they gather in . . .

                                     

Bless this home with love and friends.

                                     
                                          

                                      

As for me and my house we will serve the Lord.  Joshua 24:15

Have a blessed day!

With Love,

Wendy

I'm joining . . .

Sandi for Home Party

"Winter is the time for comfort-it is the time for home."

        O Winter! Ruler of the inverted year,... I crown thee king  of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness,  And all the comforts that the lowly roof of undisturb'd Retirement, and the hours of long uninterrupted  evening, known.

William Cowper

                   1731 - 1800                     

                                   

What did Jack Frost say to Frosty the Snowman?

           

Have an ICE day :)

                                              

Snowmen created by my son Wesley