Nature – Page 9 – Skelton Sketches

Warm Fuzzies to You

Posted on February 26, 2009 by lindaskelton

I have a little pussy
Her coat is silver gray.
She lives down in the meadow
And she never runs away.
She’ll always be a pussy,
She’ll never be a cat.
Because she’s a pussy willow,
Now what do you think of that!
(Anon.)

Well actually, this ‘pussy’ lives in a friend’s garden and I was lucky to happen by today and find it creeping out for a peek at the weather. Pussy willows are such delightful things.
I’ve had a little branch of them on my desk all year and every so often they appear in a sketch. The latest, my journal cover.

No new subject matter around here otherwise. It will be good to see what Spring will bring. Everything seems rather ‘same old’ lately when I go out walking… I guess that’s the wonder of Spring. Life springs up and everything seems new.
In the meantime, His mercies are new every morning. Great is His faithfulness to the likes of me!
–Linda

Nature’s Treasures

Posted on February 3, 2009 by lindaskelton

You’ve heard the saying, “One man’s trash is another’s treasure”?
I guess you could say I collect trash then, nature’s trash. But I couldn’t resist the latest addition. I was feeling rather gloomy but forced myself outside for a walk around the block one damp overcast day last week… and what should I find but a VALENTINE! deposited by the crows I suppose, just some wayside debris, but to me a treasure that spoke from God’s heart to mine…

I’ve included some photos of the rest of my desktop nature ‘collection’– trash or treasure?

[Note: If you’re having a hard time seeing the details, you should be able to click on any picture to view a larger format of it.]

Photo Credits: The exquisite valentine chestnut photo is by Jim!

Blessings at my feet…

Posted on November 11, 2008 by lindaskelton

… is whispered in the blessings laid at my feet on even life’s grayest days…

“Greater love has no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends…”

“Herein is love, not that we loved Him but that He loved us…”

(John 15:13; I John 4:10)

You are likely asking yourself at this point what has a yellow leaf to do with love?! In short, it is a symbolism that has been special to me ever since one dripping autumn afternoon some years ago when I went for an introspective stroll in the woods contemplating my lack of passion for the Lord… I came away reassured that it’s not about my love so much as His. The brilliant yellow leaves carpeting the dark woods became a token of His love. When the leaves fall each year I am reminded of His extravagant love that showers my life with beauty….