Spring Ahead? One can only hope. It’s late March in Chicagoland and so much for the old motto that “March comes in like a lion and out like a lamb.” No lamb I know of turns 19 degrees tonight and threatens to snow again mid-week. Just a little setback, I say, and more like Chicagoland than […]
It’s mid-March and we’ve had our first real spring day! Even the mailman commented that you can tell spring is here because Barb is in her garden. I suppose there are worse things to be known for than that. The land—dormant and under the shroud of snow—suddenly reveals its life with the first of the […]
The days are getting longer; the angle of the sun is warming the earth; the snow is starting to melt; and I’m impatient for spring. I am reminded of Genesis 1:14 where God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve […]
I believe God is the ultimate conservationist. He wastes nothing. He makes everything beautiful in its season. Since part of my background is horticulture, it should be no surprise that I love gardens and all the plant imagery in the Bible. It’s wonderful that mankind’s first home after Creation was the Garden of Eden…and their job […]
