Foggy Morning Mosaics

Happy Monday to all...actually it will be Tuesday in a few hours :)

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend.

I'm linking my post to Judith's Mosaic Monday.

Come on over and see all of the beautiful mosaics that everyone is sharing!

This past Saturday morning started out kind of cloudy,

and as it continued, a pretty dense fog settled in before I knew it.

I love taking foggy photos so I grabbed my camera and off I went.

Surely you must know I headed straight out to my road less traveled...

...and here are a few shots I snapped along the way.

Objects seem to look totally different in the fog.

Their familiar backgrounds seem to have all but disappeared.

I drive by these barns several times a week...

...and it was like seeing them for the very first time in the fog.

My road less traveled seemed to just disappear into nowhere.

And look! Well, what do you know...more spider webs!
For those of you who are tired of my spider webs, just scroll down really fast :)

This time they were really tiny and clinging to everything possible...

...billowing in the breeze like miniscule kites that had gotten stuck in miniscule trees.

OK...this is the last one.


Well, just one more, I promise....really...I mean it this time.

I'll leave you with this cute poem I found.

 THE FOG

~by Walterrean Salley

The fog is an illusion—
A master of disguise,
Which hides the tangible
Before our very eyes.

But when the fog has lifted
Everything’s still there,
And the tangible
Only seemed to’ve disappeared.

In the early morning
Or late at night,
The fog descends
Upon various sites.

It gives an air of mystery
That has long prevailed.
Dangerously intriguing
Is the fog’s foggy veil.


And today is also the first day of fall...yay!
Have a great week, everyone :)

Bedazzled Fences

Let me first start out by saying I do not like spiders.

The fact is, spiders are way at the top of my list of things I do not like...

...however...

 

...I am totally enthralled and enchanted by the masterpieces they create.
 

 

I discovered these beauties last week,

right before I came upon that field of morning glories.
 

 

In fact, I debated titling this post "Another Kind of Morning Glories"...

...for the simple reason it was morning and the webs were glorious :)
 

They were draped all along these electric fences.

 

The heavy morning dew created the illusion of thousands of strands of tiny crystal beads...

 

 

...glistening in the nearly blinding early morning sun as it peeked up over the bales of hay.

 

 

I'm pretty sure I remember picking my chin up off the ground as I laid eyes on them.

 



 

It seems I'm drawn to the challenge of snapping spider webs whenever I come across them...

...but I wasn't actually looking for these...

 

...they pretty much found me :)

 

 

And of course I just have to share these bedazzled fences over at

The Run-A-Round Ranch

 

Come on over and join the party!

A Birthday Gift

Fall is in the air and I'm getting super excited!

 Posts all across blogland are popping up adorned in the brilliant golds and oranges of the season,

as to be expected since fall officially begins in just a few days.

But interlaced among the turning leaves and the warm hues of pumpkins and mums,
there are still a few summery surprises.

I happened upon this bit of serendipity just a few days ago as I pulled up to a stop sign,
as I was out gallivanting in the country.

 I immediately pulled to the side, got out of my Jeep and crossed the road,
still not completely believing that I was seeing.



This unbelievable field of morning glories extended to my right...



...and to my left...



...with even more beyond my field of vision and what I could capture with my camera.

This surely must be just a glimpse into heaven, I thought to myself.



Ever since I was a little girl, I have been mesmerized by their gorgeous blue and violet hues...

...and I remember well how they trailed up the back side of our garage
and onto the adjoining fence behind the house where I was raised.

And when my mom told me that morning glories were my birthday flower,

well, that made me love them even more.
 

Actually, the morning glory and the aster are both considered to be the birth flower
 for those born in September.




So I will consider this little bit of unexpected pleasure, a gift...



...a birthday gift...how timely...

...since tomorrow is the big day :)
~
Have a beautiful week!

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Along the Road Less Traveled

This is what I call the road less traveled.

It's a gravel road no more than a couple of miles long, very close to where I live.

It is a pass-through of sorts from one highly traveled road to the other.

Along this road less traveled I find the quiet and solace that I crave.

The world is a noisy place.

~

If When I'm troubled, I may not find the answers I am seeking...

...but somehow the Lord speaks to me.

It might be through the call of a distant whip-poor-will or blue jay,

or finding the roadsides coming alive as wildflowers create brilliant pops of color,

or maybe it's that unexpected, refreshing breeze that seems to have come out of nowhere.

Undoubtedly, the load that I am carrying seems less heavy.

Along the road less traveled I can find myself overwhelmed at times,

that the God of the universe created so many marvelous things...

...each one unique...

...no two the same.

~

The road less traveled, whether it be this one in particular or another elsewhere,

many times becomes my inner room...and I don't even need to close the door.

~

"But you, when you pray, go into your inner room, 

close your door and pray to your Father who is in secret, 

and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you.

Matthew 6:6

Along the road less traveled...

...I can find a place to be still in a world that isn't.

Have a peaceful week, my friends.

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