Wildflowers – Page 10 – Skelton Sketches

Wherever we wander…

Posted on July 8, 2011April 30, 2017 by lindaskelton

Wherever we wander, beauty is always to be found.

Far from home tucked away in quietness in a nook alone I was surrounded by it…

Such cheerful abandon!

And tender sweetness filling the air…

And OH! the minute detail that goes largely unseen…

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We are home again now.

Still the season’s late salmonberry hang coquettishly in the cool woods…

The blackberries making up for lost time put on their delicate crepe dresses…

My winter wheat has survived the tramp of man and beast to multiply itself in comely heads…

And the foxglove never looked so radiant as in day’s setting sun!

May that be said of me when my life’s wanderings are done!

“They will come and shout for joy on the height of Zion, And they will be radiant over the bounty of the LORD— Over the grain and the new wine and the oil, And over the young of the flock and the herd; And their life will be like a watered garden, And they will never languish again.” (Jer.31:12)

—LS

They toil not…

Posted on May 21, 2011April 30, 2017 by lindaskelton

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin…(Mt.6:28)

…bluebells and cockleshells…

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Nothing quite as refreshing as spending a bit of solitude in the beauty of nature marveling at the intricacies of God’s creative handiwork. One weary afternoon this week, too pooped to putter in the garden any longer, I went up a little bluff of Scout and sat awhile…

I called this one “Lemon Chiffon” from the start, and that’s the name that has stuck in my mind…It’s one of the heralds of summer on the mountain.

It always amazes me to see the perfection of such minute wonders as these. I very nearly stepped on this one…Is there any clearer evidence that God takes note of details?

These are nearly as tiny, but oh so original!

God is amazing and in His gallery of nature there is refreshment…

May you find His handiwork all around you this week and remember His ever present care in all the details of your days.

–LS

Whose Artistry is this?

Posted on May 6, 2011April 29, 2017 by lindaskelton

Honor and majesty are before Him; Strength and beauty are in His sanctuary. Psalm 96:6

His creations are splendid, His settings soothing, His attention to detail beyond comparison…

[Wild Currant in bloom]

Yet he tucks them away in little unseen crannies

and scatters them lavishly on untrodden hillsides

for only the mountain climber to notice.

[tiny freckled ‘monkey flowers’]

when he chances to look down at his feet…

[Oregan grapes on the way…]

The ones with lesser glory He gives fragrance that fills the world with the scent of orange blossoms….

If this is how He ornaments His footstool, what must His residence be like?

One thing I have asked from the LORD, that I shall seek:
That I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life,
To behold the beauty of the LORD
And to meditate in His temple. Psalm 27:4

–LS

“And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us” Ps.90:17