Everyday Living

Tea: Hot Or Iced, What’s Your Pleasure?

~ Alfresco, Sunshine Cottage, Tea On Tuesdays

Happy Tuesday sweet friends. I hope wherever you are that you are staying cool. For the first time in my memory, we were issued an “excessive” heat warning yesterday…dangerously hot conditions with heat index values up to 113. Today promises cooler temperatures for which I am thankful!

“I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart; I will recount all of your wonderful deeds.”
‭‭Psalm‬ ‭9‬:‭1‬ ‭

I look forward to the third Tuesday of each month when Mary and I share Tea on Tuesdays!READ MORE

Simple + Southern Sunday No. 452

~ Simple + Southern Sunday, Summer, Sunshine Cottage

“The Lord is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens!”
‭‭Psalm‬ ‭113‬:‭4‬ ‭ESV‬‬

I often name a photo, I suppose as an artist does a painting. I called this one “Anticipation”. Will a thunderhead with rain and lightning develop? Could there be a rainbow? Looking at the sky can bring many thoughts to mind to give us pause and wonder. Maybe that’s what happened when singer and songwriter Dottie Rambo wrote words like “The sky shall unfold, preparing His entrance…”!READ MORE

Simple + Southern Sunday No. 451

~ July 4, Simple + Southern Sunday, Sunshine Cottage

“Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.”
‭‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭3‬:‭17‬ ‭ESV‬‬

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY

PJ had the Sunshine Cottage festive and ready to celebrate the 4th of July. I know she has some patriotic ideas and a lot of red, white, and blue coming up tomorrow in Monday Morning Blooms, but I had to sneak a photo in today. Maybe I won’t be in too much trouble for jumping ahead. Happy Independence Day! Will you manage an extra long weekend with the holiday on Tuesday?READ MORE