"The flower that blooms in adversity..."

This image looks kind of boring, and meaning less. 

But I had to take it! It's actually inspirational. 

I was taking pictures of the Autumn. All I had in mind was brown frost bitten flowers

 and dried sticks. But here it was this little sunflower bright yellow! 

As if on a mission to keep the field colorful. 

Doing it's best to stay up despite cold morning frost, and midday scorching sun 

“The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.” 

Walt Disney Company, Mulan 

Today's theme for #capturingblessing is quote. This is what I came up with.

Street View

Today's theme for #capturingblessing is Street View. 

I went to find my picture for this challenge when the sun was almost gone.

Love how I captured the water tower besides the sun in this picture!

This is how most of the town looks like. There are cornfields right beside the neighborhoods. 

It  reminds me of my little town back at Mexico. 

When I visited Nebraska for the very first time I was surprised. 

For some reason I thought it was a Mexico thing only. (smile) 

The picture above it's going west down the hill. 

Then I turned around  to go back home.

I had to wait for the traffic before I was able to make a U turn. 

So by the time I was back on top of the hill, going east, the pictures I took were less sunlit. 

And this time I got the moon in it! 

TAPS

Today I did something I always wanted to do, I pasted words into one of my pictures.  

It took me a long time since I never really put the effort into it,

and this is what I came up with.

The lyrics for Taps. I did this for the #capturingblessing  picture challenge I'm doing on Instagram. 

Today's theme was lyrics, and since today is Veteran's Day I thought it would fit in nicely. 

I showed my picture to a young lady, she said "Nice poem!". 

I gave her a little lecture about Taps. 

Bonus for me!! Feeling Great! 

But don't ask me how my kitchen looks like. 

Since it took me almost the whole day to get it done. 

I got this done with this site.

One of my Favs

This is what I came up with on Day 2 for the picture challenge I'm doing with the Instagram ladies.

The theme was Grateful. 

I like to read the Bible, it helps me get a good sense of perspective and gives me hope. 

And do I need hope! Things are not always sweet lollipops. 

So I hold on tight to scriptures like the one above. 

I'm not  here in this world like a ship without ruder in the middle of the ocean. 

No, God has great plans for me. 

And He has mapped the course of them in my life. 

I already have seen it too many times  in my short life. 

And for that I'm grateful!

Autumn From my Window

We moved  from Virginia to Nebraska at the beginning of the school year of 2012.

I was planning to permanently move here. But it was very hard on me, when I realized how much I liked Virginia, and had to force myself to like Nebraska. 

And then the weather didn't help at all! The days started to get cold and shorter,  the snow came and things turned gloomy for me. I don't know how I made it! 

It was one of the longest winters I remember. 

(Can't forget the winter I went to Navy boot camp at Great Lakes, Illinois either!)

 But before I knew it was May! 

Kids finished the school year and we visited Virginia.  Awww, It was so good!
The warm, the ocean, the mountains, Sweet Frog yogurt, my church, my garden...
 It was like paradise for me. 

We have made the decision that Nebraska is not for us. 

But kids wanted to do one more year of school in Nebraska.   

So we came back to the Midwest, again. Ay ay ay, it's soo hard! I miss my garden, the ocean,
my house and some special people from Virginia, so much!

The only good thing about this time, is that now I know what's coming. 

I know that this place will get gray, cold and full of snow.  

There will be days that the sun will come out for some hours or not at all. 

So I have switched to some type of denial, if you wan to call it that way.
I can't let the gloomy weather get me this time! 

I want to, and will try to make the best of it this time. 

I don't want to look back and remember this as a terrible time.

As I do, when I think of  the winter of 2012.  

I will adjust my doomed attitude and find the beautiful things 

God has placed right in front of  my nose!

 And just in time (God at work). I found these people on Instagram that share  pictures
of the blessings they encounter every day.
And I have joined them. I think it will help me to keep going and to appreciate the things/blessings
around me at this time of my life.  

Today's theme is autumn. I'm sharing a picture of my windows view.
I enjoy the autumn view of a birch tree's leaves changing color.

What a colorful blessing, so worthy to be captured!

I think it's so pretty, that I will also use this picture for my blog header.

Soft Fur for Good Mornings

This is my cat, his name is Cutie. 

Every morning when each of my family members wakes up he comes up to greet us. 

It's the sweetest thing! 

Except that some mornings I'm running late on my chores and I get mad a him for mewing at me. 

Then he and my kids give me the "I can't believe" face. 

I still think he is a blessing for our family! 

When I get to interact with him, I take him in the couch with a blanket or a jacket, as I did this morning. 

And he starts purring. Some times he gets very loud, as if I will pay him for it! 

He is also very playful, the part that I like most about Cutie.

 But I got to watch out for those little sharp claws! 

 I'm joining  Instagram hashtag #campturingblessing