Scripture for this evening is quoted from Ecclesiastes 3:11 (KJV Bible, copied and pasted from https://t.co/fyhGXmYorh): "He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the

Below is a sunflower I grew at our prior home...

Tonight is the Shabbat. Shabbat Shalom! (Sabbath Peace) I pray everyone has a wonderful and peaceful Shabbat. 🙏✝️ 🙏✡️🙏

A black and white photo of some mums after a rain that I grew at our prior home.

Speaking of spiders, below is a photo of the egg sac of the Argiope aurantia, along with a photo of the plump adult female Argiope, and a photo of the male Argiope which has a slimmer and more silvery body. We get these spiders in our yard usually every year. They do not try to

Below are four Monarch butterfly chrysalides inside a butterfly cube/cage I have. The dark chrysalis contained a fully morphed adult that was getting ready to eclose (emerge) from its chrysalis. You can see the design of its wings showing. It is truly miraculous what

We don't spray our lawn; and one day lots of butterflies were all over it, seeking nectar from these tiny little flowers (so-called 'weeds'). It was a sight to behold. This is just a small sampling of the variety of butterflies that came to these flowers that day.

This Datura grows in our backyard, and this photo of one of its blooms won a blue ribbon at our county fair one year. I especially like the curlicues on the edges of the flower before it unfurls.

Matthew 22:37-40 (KJV Bible, copied and pasted from https://t.co/fyhGXmYorh) states: "37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is

This photo of peonies that a friend brought over from her garden won a ribbon at our county fair one year. She was quite the gardener.

This blue spiderwort grew at our former home. The bees absolutely love this flower.

I cannot believe some people on X try to curtail the speech of others. I thought X was a free-speech platform.

A closeup of a Gazania gazoo....

Ecclesiastes 7:14 (KJV Bible) states: "In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him."

Another male Monarch butterfly I reared and released. He went straight for the leaves of this Joseph's Coat rose bush.

Below is a Monarch butterfly I reared and released, whereupon it went straight to these purple asters on our back patio.

Scripture for today is quoted from 2 Corinthians 6:14-17 (KJV Bible, copied and pasted from https://t.co/fyhGXmYorh): "14) Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with

A little green bee came to investigate this marigold flower in our yard.

Matthew 6:14 (KJV Bible) states: "For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you."