While in Pittsburgh, we visited a place any plant lover would enjoy: Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens. Located in Schenley Park, not far from my son and daughter-in-law’s house, the conservatory houses a wide variety of plants, including one whole room dedicated to ferns, another full of orchids, and a walk-through butterfly garden. Much of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘clouds’
Phipps Conservatory
Posted in Flowers, Nature, special places, tagged beauty, butterflies, clouds, gardening, nature on July 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
More Clouds
Posted in blessings, clouds, joy, Nature, tagged beauty, blessings, clouds, joy, nature on March 26, 2011 | 4 Comments »
How can a bunch of water vapor look so magnificent? Clouds are amazing!
Cloud Watching–Better than Television
Posted in changes, clouds, joy, Nature, spring, winter, tagged beauty, clouds, joy, nature, spring, winter on February 19, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Clouds move across the sky in a wild kaleidoscope of shapes and colors, and I try to capture the beauty in words and photos.
Gray Day
Posted in birds, clouds, Perspectives, winter, tagged attitude, birds, clouds, nature, rain, winter on January 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Grayness surrounds me and seeps into me. Until three gray pigeons appear…
December Rain
Posted in autumn, clouds, Nature, winter, tagged clouds, contentment, life, nature, rain, winter on December 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Here in western Oregon, the weather changes rapidly, but one certainty remains: there will be rain…
Beach Clouds
Posted in blessings, clouds, hope, joy, tagged beach, beauty, blessings, clouds, hope, joy on September 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The sun rising through clouds at the beach brings with it beauty and peace.
Rain
Posted in clouds, gardening, Perspectives, spring, tagged attitude, clouds, gardening, life, rain, spring on June 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Rain spills from gray skies, and my garden remains unplanted, a muddy brown splotch in the midst of all the green.
April Showers
Posted in changes, clouds, spring, Uncategorized, tagged changes, clouds, nature, spring on May 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Unsettled April weather continues…but isn’t it May now?
Plane Flight
Posted in Perspectives, Uncategorized, tagged beauty, clouds, travel on January 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The plane rises toward the gauzy gray ceiling, as the ground drops farther and farther below. I start to relax now that we are safely airborne. I read that takeoff and landing are the most dangerous times of a plane flight, and so I concentrate my prayers on those two times. Once we’ve ascended a [...]
