The first two photos were taken at Wonderwood Park…one of my favorite places to go when visiting the kids. It is a very easy walk from their home.
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Patrick Henry
Give me liberty or give me death!
Nelson Mandela
For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
James Bryce
Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
Henry James
I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
Ronald Reagan
Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.
Abraham Lincoln
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Robert Frost
Freedom lies in being bold.
Harry S. Truman
America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination.
Woodrow Wilson
The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
Happy Independence Day, America!
Stay healthy! Stay safe!
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We might think we are nurturing our garden, but of course it’s our garden that is really nurturing us. -Jenny Uglow
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. – Cicero
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy. They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. -Unknown
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The LORD will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail. -Isaiah 58:11
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For as the soil makes the sprout come up and a garden causes seeds to grow, so the Sovereign LORD will make righteousness and praise spring up before all nations. -Isaiah 61:11
You are a garden fountain, a well of flowing water streaming down from Lebanon. -Song of Songs 4:15
*For all of you caterpillar lovers out there…this caterpillar was alive when I found the ants dragging it away. I rescued it after I took the photo.
The grass withers, the flower fades, but the Word of our God stands forever. -Isaiah 40:8
Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. -Luke 12:27
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. -Ecclesiastes 3:11
I am the Vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me, and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me, you can do nothing. -John 15:5
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