MEDITATIVE MEANDERINGS!

The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof....(Psalm 24:1) 

See how the flowers of the field grow. (Matthew 6:28)

Carolina Snailseed found in Texas

Trumpet bush/Yellow Bells

Common Sunflower---to bright to be labeled common

Goldenrod--so familiar to Kentucky folks

Creation is the Lord's doing; it is marvelous in our/my eyes. (Psalm 118:23) 

🎶For the wonder of each hour

of the day and of the night,

hill and vale and tree and flower

sun and moon and stars of light. {Refrain}

Christ, our Lord, to you we raise,

this our hymn of grateful praise.🎶

Words of Scripture and lyrics from hymn, "For the Beauty of the Earth" have enhanced this meditative Monday.

CHOOSE: TEXAS FLORA AND FAUNA

Wednesday Walkabout in Texas (5/10)----from fishing pond/lake to trail with great blue herons and wood ducks and woods with milkweed and butterflies.
Right at the edge of the lake, a heron seems to rule the roost.

Recent Sunday School lesson reminded me that the monarch's migration from Mexico takes 4 generations of monarchs. 

Photographer posted this pix for subdivision newsletter. 

This weathered one that must be at the end of his stent. 

The only plant that sustains these beauties is the milkweed plant. Monarch (in pic below) draws sustenance from a Tropical Milkweed.

How does a monarch "know" it cannot survive without this plant? 

How does this new new 4th generation return 2,500 miles to Mexico each fall to the same tree for hibernation?

Grateful to have seen this picture of a monarch taken by a Summerfield neighbor in Allen, TX. 

Now I'm on the lookout to see it myself!

Texas Showy Pink Evening Primrose

Couldn't figure out why some passer-bys called these delicate, pink flowers buttercups---unless that's the Texas name.  Buttercups, in Tennessee, don't look anything like these beauties. These "sweet looking" dainty flowers opened at dusk (as I was taking my walk) but withered the next day. Remnants of yesterday's blooms were still evident.

WOW---showy rows of Indian Paintbrush just past the cow sanctuary.
What a "Walkabout" when I'm choosing to see God's handiwork in Texas.

CHOOSE: TO SEE ANEW

WOW---I have walked this same path 3 days now and this is the first time I have seen this beauty!

I don't know the name but what a picture of a "seed-bearing" plant! It looks like it bears the seed in a "cup" and then the seed sprouts in its own cup. AMAZING!!

"God said, I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth..." (Genesis 1:29)

He put this one right here in Texas. I just had to walk by it a couple of times before I noticed it!

God gave it.  I'll just have to search the name for myself unless some reader out there can supply this info.