Contributing To A Healthy Lifestyle.....

Muskmelon....one with orange flesh and rough skin.....

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"Look for a ripe one, you will

know, for it has a bright

orange color."

Our selection was "perfection"

I thought as I prepared this beautiful melon.

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Placed beside scrambled cheese eggs

on our breakfast plate, this morning,

I marveled at

the cantaloupe (muskmelon) and it's

pure summer sweetness.

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More so than ever before,

we're trying to eat

balanced meals here at the cottage.

I've been advised,

that by making it a complete lifestyle focus,

my immune system

will function at it's peak.

A good thing....I believe.

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I'm finding it takes

very little effort,

I'm feeling much healthier

and the process of food preparation

is indeed

quite enjoyable.

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Remaining positive in thoughts......Dee Dee

Along The Water's Edge.....

It seems,

we've passed by this

beautiful place,

along the water's edge

for quite a number of years,

and each time,

I wonder about this

Bougainvilla.

It's made claim to a section

along the road, close to the water.

Each time, I notice that it's

still climbing all over a

broken section of an old

white shabbied wooden fence.

It appears to be

managing on it's own, and as seen in

the photos it is flourishing.

.....I wonder.

In any case, I appreciate

it's beauty.

Very soon now,

I will pass by

again,

marveling

at the Bougainvilla's

resillence and

willingness to survive on it's on.

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Blessings for the week......Dee Dee

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Ms Corrie's Wisdom

"If God has shown us bad times ahead,

it's enough for me that He knows about them.

That's why He sometimes shows us things,

you know-to tell us that this too is in His Hands."

~Corrie Ten Boom (The Hiding Place)

Art?

Art?

Tubes of watercolors and brushes,

begin

an aesthetic endeavor

even becoming themselves

art.

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Blessings....Dee Dee

Think On This......

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird.

It would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn

to fly while remaining an egg.

We are like eggs at present.

And you cannot go on

indefinitely

being just an

ordinary decent egg.

We must be hatched or

go bad.

~C. S. Lewis
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Ah....words of wisdom, don't you think?

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Happy Friday everyone....Dee Dee

She Wore A Fur Muffler

As "my lady" materialized onto paper,

I realized the

story centered around her

warm fur muffler.

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He wore a badge and had

pledged to keep the peace

but she knew him as the man

who had saved

her valuables from the "bad guys?

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"Glad to have helped you lady, here are

your jewels and fur, " said Dick Tracy.

She found him irresistible.

His bright yellow hat,

the shape of his

sharp nose

and square jaw,

all made her swoon.

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As she placed the fur muffler

around her neck, she

thought of how she

had used all her

womanly charms

to capture his heart.

In the end, she

had settled for reading

about him

in the funny papers.

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Dear friends....

I fear I have been confined to my

home, much to long.

Perhaps my imagination is

running quite wild.

Thank you for humoring me and

allowing my amusing entertainment.

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Having fun with pencils and watercolors.....Dee Dee

C. S. Lewis

'Something of God....flows

into us from the blue of

the sky, the taste of honey,

the delicious embrace of water

whether cold or hot, and

even from sleep itself.

~C S Lewis

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Beautiful thoughts from a man

with impeccable insight......Dee Dee

Wish you had been with me.......

It's not every day we see

wild Peacocks up close and personal,

but on accasion we do

and real close to home.

It's interesting how they

came to live close by.

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Seems a long while back,

an old gentleman

liked

these lovely peafowls, and

very much.

I'm not sure how many he owned,

but when he

left the world, his descendants

wanted nothing to do with

the large birds,

and

released them into the wild.

Home to them now, is a tropical woodland area

near our

neighborhood.

They are such lovely gentle creatures,

and made no attempt to fly away

when I walked up to take photos.

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Wished you could have been there

with me....Dee Dee

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Books I'm Reading.....

An Amazon Review:

Have you read a book and been so profoundly

affected by it that when you finish it, you just

sit still, be quiet and let it keep working for you?

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An Editorial Review:

Walter Wangerin's profound fantasy concerns

time when the sun turned around the earth,

and the animals could speak,

when Chauntecleer the Rooster

ruled over a more or less peaceful kingdom.

What the animals did not know was that they

were the Keepers of Wyrm, monster of evil

long imprisoned beneath the earth...and Wyrm,

sub-terra, was breaking free.

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This book is simultaneously rich in mythology and

history, so familiar to us all.

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The Sequel: "The Book of Sorrow"
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More of Wangerin's Books:

The Book of God

Ragman and Other Cries of Faith

Miz Lil and the Chronicles of Grace

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As you can see, I'm keeping busy exploring

on Amazon.....finding good things to read.

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Blessings......Dee Dee

Summer's Passage

.....now the crow's call" Summers Passage"

Now the crows call.

It's muffled at first...

the leaves are still on the trees

But they will fall

and the crow's calls

will ring and echo

more and more

Until the world is wasted shades

of brown and grey and then

white.

~author unknown

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Everyone I know is thinking the same

thing I am ....

"I am so tired of this hot weather and

so looking forward to fall."

I can hardly wait,

although fall here

in Florida is nothing like up north.

Mother Nature

only touches color

here and there on our

Gulf Coast landscape.

Never-the-less,
I will mightily welcome

the cooler weather.

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Thank you for stopping by......Dee Dee