Filed under: Family time, Food, Fountains, General Blog Entry's, God Bless America, Love, music, Outdoor Lifestyles, Sunday Reflections, Sunrises, Sunsets, Waterfalls | Tags: Autumn Color, Changing Seasons, Enjoy The Day, Enjoy The Morning, Fall, Fall Color, Fall Morning, Family time, Leaves, Morning Coffee, Sunday, Sunday in the Garden, Sunday Inspiration, Sunday Mornings, Sunday Naps, Sunday Poem, Sunday Reflections, Sunday with Family, Sundays, Sunrises, Sunsets, Time flies
I was sipping my coffee waiting and watching the sun come up š when I thought ātomorrow is the last day of Septemberā… Wow! I donāt know if itās just me, but this entire year has just flown by! And it always seems to speed up more when we get to the holidays!
The Fall Color is Coming! š Taking a ride or walk to enjoy the Fall is one of the joys of the season.
I always try to really enjoy each season as they come, I just feel like thereās a need to slow this train down a bit š I am ready for the color show that is to come šĀ And looking around the last couple days, itās already started… Iām gonna go for a ride in the country today for a prequel and take note of whatās happening. Fall is such a beautiful season!
āSpring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When idle concerns donāt fill your thoughts, thatās your best season.ā
~ Wu-Men
Have a great Sunday,
~ Mark C.
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I got up early and came out to get a good view of the last Sunrise šof Summer. Yes, today is the last official day of Summer š® Tomorrow is the Autumnal Equinox, the 1st official day of Fall…
Itās been a HOT summer! Cooler weather sounds great!
I Love Summer! I always mourn its passing… But, itās been so Hot this year, the cooler weather is a welcome thing. Football, cookouts, fire pits, Fall color, frost on the pumpkin šĀ Bring It On!
Hereās a link to more info on the 1st day of Fall Ā šš»
āOur fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.ā
~ John Donne, 1620
Have a great āLast day of Summer Sundayā!
~ Mark Carter
Filed under: Family time, Food, Fountains, General Blog Entry's, God Bless America, Koi, Koi Ponds, Lake and Pond, Landscaping & Gardening, Love, music, Nursery, Outdoor Lifestyles, Pondless Waterfalls, Sunday Reflections, Sunrises, water garden, Waterfalls | Tags: Date Night, Deep Thoughts, Full Harvest Moon, Full Moon, I Love Animals, Love, Moondance, Moonlight Pond Tour, Morning Coffee, Old Friends, Pond Tour, Sunday in the Garden, Sunday Inspiration, Sunday Mornings, Sunday Poem, Sunday Reflections, Sunday with Family
I was up early to drink coffee and enjoy these wonderful morning temperatures š We were up late last night seeing over the latest Moonlight Pond Tour event. What a wonderful, beautiful night! The weather was perfect & so many people came through to look at the Gardens & Ponds.
It was such a perfect night for a Pond Tour! I just Love this Waterfall! ā¤ļø
Jo and I spent the majority of the night at the nursery selling tickets and visiting with friends new and old. We saw lots of familyās young and old alike, just enjoying being outside in the garden, under the Harvest Moon šĀ It made me think of this poem by Carl Sandburg-
Thanks to everyone who participated and donated to the Jackson Animal Care Center! And a very special Thank You to the wonderful Homeowners who allowed us all to stroll through their Gardens in the Moonlight šā¤ļø
Have a Wonderful Sunday!
~ Mark Carter
Filed under: Family time, General Blog Entry's, God Bless America, Landscaping & Gardening, Love, Outdoor Lifestyles, Sunday Reflections, Sunrises, Sunsets | Tags: Bemis Cotton Mill, Bemis Tennessee, Chopping Cotton, Company Town, Cotton Sack, Cotton Scales, High Cotton, History, Memories, Old Ways, Picking Cotton, Sunday in the Garden, Sunday Inspiration, Sunday Mornings, Sunday Poem, Sunday Reflections, Sunday with Family
I spent the evening rigging this little wall hanging display of history in my living room. My fathers side of the family goes back to the beginning with the old company town of Bemis. LOTS of history here. My dads side of the family processed and spun the cotton into thread. My motherās side grew, chopped and picked the cotton.
This is an old Bemis cotton sack and an old scale. My grandma & great grandma weāre both original Bemis Cotton Mill families. Something about seeing the name gives me a feeling of history.
Now machines do everything that was once done by hand… Prep, plant, spray, pick, gin, spin, sew & go – All by machine now. We have come a long way in a short time! šš»
āWhen I was a little bitty baby
My mama would rock me in the cradle,
In them old cotton fields back home;
It was down in Louisiana,
Just about a mile from Texarkana,
In them old cotton fields back home.
Oh, when them cotton bolls get rotten
You can’t pick very much cotton,
In them old cotton fields back home.”
~ Credence Clearwater Revival
Have a Great Sunday!
~ Mark Carter
Filed under: Family time, General Blog Entry's, God Bless America, Hummingbirds, Landscaping & Gardening, Love, Nursery, Outdoor Lifestyles, Sunday Reflections, Sunrises | Tags: Feeding Hummingbirds, Flowers, Gardening for Hummingbirds, God Bless, God Bless America, Hummingbird Feeding, Hummingbird Nectar, Hummingbirds, I ā¤ļø Hummingbirds, Nectar Plants, Sunday in the Garden, Sunday Inspiration, Sunday Mornings, Sunday Poem, Sunday Reflections, Sunday with Family, The Presence of God
Sitting here watching the first hummingbirds of the day starting to feed, I realize that Iām a lucky man… Many donāt get to see them up close and personal like this. Some fly in and out of the feeders quickly for just a sip. A few stick more to the flowers šŗĀ I have planted for them, and a few, that are regulars arenāt scared at all and will sit on a feeder and drink till they have had their fill! They trust that I wonāt hurt or bother them. These are my favorites and the ones I call āmy babiesā š
This is one of my āBabiesā. If I am outside by myself, they act is if Iām not there at all. I ā¤ļø Hummingbirds š
I have feeders in several spots around the gardens, but my porch is their favorite. Maybe because there are also flowers šŗĀ that they enjoy too? A āPlethoraā of feeding options if you will …
Plant flowers with tubular blossoms and the hummingbirds will come to feed. Butterflies š¦ too š
…when you are convinced that all the exits are blocked, either you take to believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird. The miracle is that the honey is always there, right under your nose, only you were too busy searching elsewhere to realize it. The worst is not death but being blind, blind to the fact that everything about life is in the nature of the miraculous.
~ Henry Miller
Have a blessed Sunday!
~ Mark Carter
Filed under: Family time, General Blog Entry's, God Bless America, Landscaping & Gardening, Love, Outdoor Lifestyles, Sunday Reflections, Waterfalls | Tags: Contemplating, Contemplation, Early Morning, Life is Good, Living the Life Abundant, Perfect Sunrise, Pondering, Quiet Morning, Sunday, Sunday in the Garden, Sunday Inspiration, Sunday Mornings, Sunday Poem, Sunday with Family, Sundays, Sunrises
Iāve been sitting on a stump by the edge of a field since right after sunrise this morning, just thinking š¤Ā Contemplating…
Life is short, what will today bring? So many blessings!
“Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean–
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down–
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
With your one wild and precious life?”
~ Mary Oliver
Have a Blessed Sunday,
Mark C.
Filed under: Food, General Blog Entry's, God Bless America, Landscaping & Gardening, Love, Outdoor Lifestyles, Sunday Reflections, Waterfalls | Tags: August, Changing Seasons, Fall is Coming, Hot Weather, I ā¤ļø Summer, Sunday in the Garden, Sunday Inspiration, Sunday Mornings, Sunday Naps, Sunday Poem, Sunday Reflections, Sunday with Family, Sundays
This week alone I have heard several people say they are ready for Fall weather… I too love the Fall, but Iām still enjoying the Summer…Ā I used to find myself mourning the seasons as they pass, No more! I endeavor to enjoy them as they come. And right now, good old hot, sticky August is on the table š
One of the things I love most about Summer, is my shady porch swingš I just Love my tree ferns & flowers šŗ But like the man says, Fall is Comingā!
“Whilst August yet wears her golden crown,
Ripening fields lush- bright with promise;
Summer waxes long, then wanes, quietly passing
Her fading green glory on to riotous Autumn.”
~ Michelle L. Thieme, August’s CrownĀ
Have a great Sunday šš»
Mark C.
