Here are just a few pictures I was able to get yesterday on our beautiful Greenway system. It’s a paved walkway next to a river here in our city. I live in the south, Middle Tennessee, and the trees, with the right conditions, turn such beautiful colors. It’s only getting started with the first yellows and reds beginning. I hope you enjoy these and your own fall wherever you live. Have a God blessed day!!
Dry Season
Everyone goes through
A Dry Season
Feeling without a reason
Getting drier, drier
Stress, sorrow, pain
Roaring, growing
Higher, higher
Emotions, the body
Like dry, dead leaves
Dry, dead limbs
Will this dry season
Ever, ever end?
In the middle of the dark
No answer comes
Perhaps in this
Season only is
Found true faith
In Heaven’s Only Son
In the middle of shallow waters
Full of only sludge
Life’s sharp, hard rocks
Oh, for a moment
Please, my next words
Do not me begrudge
Reach up for Christ!!
Always is found His glorious light
In the middle of our darkest,
Most wicked earthly fight
He will provide always
Sunlit, crystal shining waters
His provisions reach deeper
Every heartbeat
Exceeding all other worldly offers
You will bloom again
Christ will help you
Grow in faith through this
Dry season
No matter, the pain,
The strong wind blowing
This dry breeze in
Never will He leave you,
Never will He forsake you
God’s love is still there
Heaven still deeply, deeply cares!
My husband and I got to get out of the house today and walk along our city’s greenway system. The sun was bright, the humidity nice and low as we moved along the river’s edge. We got to enjoy even some of our animal friends. They seemed to enjoy the weather as much as we did. Hope you enjoy the pictures and verse. Have a God-blessed day!!!
Southern Charms
I do declare,
walking in these southern airs
Nature's Southern Charms
most certainly at times
can one completely, totally disarm
I gain delight
at only one sight
of this time of year
Joyful indulgence
Joy for the eye
Yes, even for the ear
Now at fall's cusp
as summer exerts
it's last warmer thrusts
Get out
Enjoy nature's treasures
Store within the heart
Each large and smaller
of all its bountiful pleasures!!
This morning for the first time in a long time I was able to ride my bike on our river’s greenway system. Bunches of yellow wildflowers were everywhere because of all the nice rain we’ve had this summer. Some of their clusters were as tall as me (although I’m not that tall). However, things are starting to wither a little in August’s dryer days. Even the river is lower and more shallow with a little bit more algae on its surfaces. Below is a poem that came to mind as I rode.
Saying Good-Bye
Oh, my dear,
For me do not cry
Although for now
I may appear within
Your eyes to wither and
To die
During winter’s coldest blisses
It’s bleak winds trembling
Kisses
I may fleetingly disappear
But remember,
Next spring
For me will be found
A completely new start
So during winter’s dreariest day
My glory you may find
Held in the recesses
Love and warmth
Captive and living within your heart!
I was blessed enough to be able to ride my bike today on our Greenway System along the river and see some of the leaves on the trees starting to change colors. Even though it was a little cloudy they were still beautiful! Wrote a quick poem about it and hope you enjoy.
Autumn Flames Fiery flames Never meant to be contained Mixed among the greens The cooler colors Still your sisters, brothers Meant to complement one another Your warmer tones Float over my head & I do not have to enjoy Your beauty all alone Others, they stop Breezes, they blow Carrying your leaves To skip, to hop Over each & every stone So take some time After you’ve finished my Pale rhyme Enjoy your day & take the time to stay Caught in autumn’s Fiery flames!
Spring seems to finally be here! I love to see the beautiful flowering trees. Plus it’s amazing to see what a difference an overnight rain makes along our river greenway system. It’s normally just a trickle in some spots but a little rain brings it to almost over the large bridges and over some of the smaller ones. I caught a shot of some kids enjoying walking in the river water that had just barely covered a small bridge. I warned them to be careful. Don’t know if it did any good or not.
SoulSails 