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.

Patch Work From the Air

Would you look at this colorful patch work Nebraska farmers make!

Some weeks ago, I had a terrible need to go to Virginia. So I bought me a ticket and off I went to the East Coast. So easy to just pack and go to Virginia!

 I wish I felt the same way about coming back to Nebraska! So when the day came to return, I woke up and quickly tried to go back to sleep. In hopes that it was a bad dream. 

It didn't work! I had to head back to the Midwest.  
There will be a post about that trip coming up soon. 

In the mean time I want to share with you this beautiful view from up in the sky.

 

I don't know which river this is, because there are two rivers in this area, The Platte River and the Missouri River. 
I was very close to asking the pilot at the time I got off the airplane!

These pictures makes me think of a huge quilt with some type of zig-zag needle work.

When the airplane was getting close to landing , I could seen the houses and the trees.  A different type of beauty  from what I'm used to see when the leaves change color  in The Appalachians Mountains.  But here in the Great Plains the trees are still green, it's the crops of corn and soy beans that are changing colors.

In the picture below I was able to capture the  pad that the crop Irrigation System makes. Ha, it looks so tiny from up there!

I like to take pictures from the airplane's window. It might be that I don't travel a lot.  

Or just like some other "friends of mine", we love to capture moments either down here on earth or up there in the sky. 

Check them out at Flickr blog's post, Abstract flightscapes. 

They also have a group called "Window Seat Please". My type of "friends"! :) 

This site its full of pictures from up in the sky! 

Or you can just stay here and read all my exciting blog!