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Bad storm last night! Tornado sirens, heavy winds, hail, lightning, thunder, etc, etc… Scary!
But this morning – Beautiful sunrise! Calm winds, the birds 🐦 are singing! Gorgeous!
Up with the sun! It’s time to get outside & see what’s happening in the garden. Spring is Here! The whole world is coming to life!
I guess my point on this beautiful Sunday morning is – When this storm ⛈ (Coronavirus) gets past us, we are in for something nice! We just have to ride it out… The Calm after the storm …
I’m approaching everyday one step at a time! Today’s plan –
- Breakfast 🥞
- Work on my Container Garden
- Shower
- Nap!
- Fire up Grill
- Eat
- Guitar 🎸
- Early to Bed!
“I am tired, I am worn
For this is the calm after the storm
Heart beat ceases to race
Everything seems to fall into place
Take comfort in cycles and patterns,
Separate the insignificant from what matters
History repeats itself they say,
The universe works in funny ways
So push thoughts of growing older,
Of growing colder, of forgetting to be bolder
To the back of my mind
Shelved away somewhere difficult to find
And think instead of stories that turn out okay
Think of the sound of waves and rainy days
For I am slowly breathing
Almost sleeping
Nearly dreaming
Simply being.“
~ Rachel
Mark Carter
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Rainy night last night, but this morning is just beautiful. Lately there’s been a lot of rain, but we all know that after the rain has past, there will be flowers 🌺 I think that’s what we are dealing with right now with all this Social Distancing & Self Quarantines 😷 – After this passes we will all see more beauty than before… The world is giving us Lemons 🍋 it’s up to us to make Lemonade…
Sunday breakfast with family is one of the high points of the week to me 😊 Staycationing at its best…
”All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don’t. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.”
~ Robert Kennedy
Take this time to catch up with family! And take a nap 😴
Have a happy Sunday
Mark C.
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The older I get, the tougher it gets to “Spring Forward”! I’m just plain torn when it comes to daylight savings time! I mean, I do love the longer daylight hours! But, it really only changes things as far as schedule goes… It doesn’t add any time to the day at all… It just adjusts the clock and the daily hours of business. Then it takes us several days to adjust to getting up an hour early… Is it worth the effort?
my morning coffee came an hour earlier this morning! But, good news is we will have Daylight till after 7pm now! Boom 💥
The silver lining is of course the longer daylight hours. It won’t be dark now till after 7pm! I do love evenings outside in the garden!
But now it’s time for breakfast! 🍳 🥞
Maybe we will celebrate with a late bbq 🍗 this evening 😊
”Only the government would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket, sew it to the bottom, and have a longer blanket.”
~ Old Indian Chief
Have a great Sunday!
Mark Carter
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What a beautiful Sunday morning! Cool and crisp! Warming today, but several days of rain ahead… Ahhh, but it’s March! Springtime is only inches away 😊 I can feel it!
Last weeks bud is this weeks early flower. Spring is almost here!
The First Of March
“The sun is brilliant in the sky but its warmth does not reach my face.
The breeze stirs the trees but leaves my hair unmoved.
The cooling rain will feed the grass but will not slake my thirst.
It is all inches away but further from me than my dreams.”
~ M. Romeo LaFlamme
Have a Great Sunday!
Mark C.
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What a beautiful morning! Sunny ☀️ with a bluebird sky. It’s Groundhog Day & I saw my shadow… You know what that means, yep, I need to loose a few pounds 😮
If ground-hog day was bright and fair,
The beast came forth, but not to stay;
His shadow turned him to his lair,
Where six weeks more, he dormant lay
Secure in subterranean hold—
So wondrous weatherwise was he—
Against six weeks of ice and cold,
Which, very certain, there would be…
~H.L. Fisher, “Popular Superstitions,”
I may have seen my shadow, but old Punxsutawney Phil did not! What does that mean? Well, if you trust the worlds most famous rodent prognosticator, it means Spring is coming early!!! Boom 💥 What have I been saying – Spring IS Coming! 💐🍾🌈
Ok, back in the real 🌎 I have a game to prepare for! My team didn’t make it this year (❤️ Titans) so I’m rooting for the Chiefs… The hard parts gonna be finding Super Bowl snacks that help slim my shadow 😎
Groundhog Day made me think about MY shadow… I guess it’s Crudité for Super Bowl snacks 😊
Have a great day! Go Chiefs! And here’s to an early Spring!
Mark Carter
Carter’s Nursery, Pond & Patio
2846 Old Medina Rd.
Jackson, Tn. 38305
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What a beautiful morning! This picture says it all – a Beautiful sunrise under a bank of invading clouds. The rain is coming, but not before the Sunrise. No longer than I got my picture, the rain got here. Feels like Spring 😊
The cloud bank was almost all the way in, but the Sunrise beat it! So beautiful. Behind me, the rain was coming.
Enjoy your day ❤️
Mark Carter
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1st Sunday of the New Year! Beautiful morning with a gorgeous day to follow. I didn’t cook breakfast this morning… I’m being treated to “Sunday Brunch” 🥞 🍳 So I got that going for me 🌞
Pancakes 🥞, Eggs Benedict, Strawberries 🍓 & Mimosa’s. Yes please 😊
”There is always a way and always hope in the next sunrise, and in the next second, and in the next minute.”
~ Ziggy Marley
Here’s to a GREAT Sunday & a GREAT 2020!
Happy New Year!
~ Mark Carter
