Spring is a wonderful thing but sometimes it's chilly! A few pictures from my life as it is. The last of the Florida pictures.

Soon it will be warm here too. I love warm.

My youngest 2 grandchildren were baptized on Easter Sunday. A very special time.

Then we had a lovely weather day. I remember snow on the eggs one year.

Then there was a perfect roller skate day when it was cold outside.

The first mosquito left about 6 bites on my arm!

That one landed on my skirt.

My 'Splashes' page of the week. So much sadness, but so much to be thankful for too. I pray God will bless you with good things, till next time.

So happy for springtime. I remember a song that said, it's always springtime in heaven.  I have some wonderful pictures

from Easter. My youngest 2 grandchildren were baptized on Easter Sunday. Blessed to see it. I'm a lot more teary eyed

than I used to be. I guess I'm turning into my mom. She always cried at the drop of a hat, it seemed like.

They say palmetto bugs aren't as bad as roaches because they like to stay outdoors mostly.

I saw a very weird person here on the trail that looked like an android person. Of course you may laugh, but seriously, there was something really wrong about it.

It was jogging along like a robot with huge headphones a jogging suit and baseball type cap so you couldn't really see much of a face or body. It jogged by twice.

The man on the picture got in the boat. He said it was nasty. I guess the hurricane blew it over and it costs too much to retrieve it.  It happened to quite a few boats.

Not a good fishing day.

Vacation almost done. I didn't watch the Super Bowl. Too disgusted with their politics yet. Some others watched. Didn't care. So there!

If you get a chance to see the Passion Production at Quaker Haven next year. I would recommend it. Some of my peeps are in it.

And I found time for a 'Splashes' page too.

My thoughts went to people who think everything needs to be resolved to their way of thinking. Don't you think it's good to

wait on God and let Him resolve things in His time? Too many times people want to resolve stuff and they end up stirring

the pot and everything explodes and the feelings are injured for a lifetime. God grant me the serenity to accept the things

I cannot change, courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference!

There are a lot of things we'll never agree with one another on  how to resolve it. So let go and let God. My philosophy.

Every year I get more grateful for what God did for His children and saved us. How precious is His love to us!

Would that God's love could be spread by His children. These are times that try men's souls as someone said, but now

is also the time for God to fill a hateful heart with love.  He came down to reach and save even the most hardened hearts.

I pray many will yet, have eyes opened, to the love that can fill our hearts, because of Him!

A few more trip pics. Love those kind! Lots of fun reliving memories.

We saw quite a few muskovie ducks this time around. They are invasive and destructive. I saw one almost

killing some of our roosters, as in the chicken kind. They are big and mean and messy. I think Florida

should have some people making duck stew! They chase away good birds.

The Buffalo Tiger Airboat is our favorite one.

We also eat gator bites.

She scared me while I was taking a video by slapping the jaw loudly. I thought it got her. She said, 'Sorry, not sorry!' She has gotten nailed a few times.

They seem to smile a lot.

And soon it was time to go.

May your Easter season be blessed with God's great love!

How much He cares for us! Praying for His people all over the world. He cares for us all!

I wrote this today because it's so 'March' right now! Cold, windy, snow, rain....shiver!

We visited Coral castle in Miami. He built it for his sweetheart and no one knows how he did it, by himself.

Some think anti-gravity. They never saw or heard the stones and doors get moved into place.

He built a place where his wife and children could put their noses in the rock when they were bad.

Somewhat a chalkboard circle punishment. No wonder his girl didn't show up!

He made the doors so they could swing, but time has made them immovable.

In 2016 we sat around the stone Florida table and went inside his upstairs living quarters. Can't do that anymore. Sad.

The circle in the table is Lake Okeechobee.

When my grandson was here, Essenhaus is one place he wanted to eat.

Well, I see a face. Don't you?

My 'Splashes' page of the week.

Yes, we keep on marching on and on. A few pictures on the run, or not.

Vizcaya is interesting and beautiful.  Kids probably wouldn't enjoy it unless they can run, of course. It was given to the city of Miami because the relatives

could not maintain it. They paid very little for it in today's money.

This is a up and down view of a stone spiral staircase.

My oldest grandson loves trains and is scared to death at the same time. Since boyhood railroad tracks have been a source of terror for him.

He prays when we cross the tracks. The train museum was a go to place for him. Love him, my man-child! 

Signs of spring! Geese flying in. They are a source of food for cranes! Cranes eat baby chicks. I don't know about goslings. I guess we'll see.

Signs of March.

My 'Splashes' page of the week. God bless and keep.

Sometimes I just want to sit and rest but life goes marching on and I don't want to get left behind. The cold weather makes me

feel so stiff and ungainly. This week we met someone who can't walk or move very good, so I go cheerfully on, knowing I

can move my arms and legs!!

Somewhere in Florida we stopped and talked to a homeowner about the peacocks in their sub-division. They were beautiful and plentiful!

They go up on the houses at night and mess with their alarm systems.

I love them around but there are some people around here that don't like it at all.

On the way back we stopped at a food truck place. After we watched Andrew Zimmern's food truck episodes and we found food trucks quite a good place to stop!

We spent some time at the Conservatory place in Fort Wayne while Austin & Aidan were here from Arizona. A good sunshiny, warm, place.

My  'Splashes' page of the week.

And we are marching forward although sometimes I get a little slow and clumsy. I still drop things sometimes and accidentally

swipe things off of a whatever onto the floor. Not a good feeling! Then I get to get more exercise by picking things up!

More travel pictures. My favorite kind!

The Pit Bar B-Q, close to Miami, is one place I want to go to again!

We are blessed with good company this week. My grandson who is going for his PHD in physics. Such a brilliant mind and heart of a child all wrapped into one.

Also his cousin and kind of a grandson to us for years. So glad they can live and work together! Blessed we are with the grandchildren generation. They keep us praying and young.

My 'Splashes' page of the week.

Till next time...God bless and keep on going for Him! 

I guess we have 'Marching' orders! Slow down a little, I say but, life is a game of catch up until it stops. I hope to do a lot yet

but none of us are promised extra time, so we keep on, keep on.....and on.

A few more vacation pictures. Thankful for memories. Some have their whole world view tainted and become hypersensitive

woke people. I try to stay away from that. My opinion is, don't dwell on the past or present too much, it isn't good for your soul.

Easier said than done. There's Jesus with us that comforts me. Wisdom is ours if we ask.

'Robert Is Here' is a place we usually stop at. Worth your time and a bit of money.

It was in the pool. Couldn't swim. A little droopy. I feel that way sometimes.

All the way to Key Largo and my granddaughter saw a friend from Goshen, Indiana.

My favorite eating place? Outside!

In the meantime, at home, it rained and rained.

Some puppies born just before we left. They belong to my grandchildren. Born in the very cold. They are doing well, just like the polar bears are.

I had the camera so.....there they went!

My 'Splashes' page of the week.

May God save our country and be with His people all over the world.

I'm glad spring is nearing and yet sad that time flies by so fast. We stoop and droop in many places, but we go on. Time waits for none.

I saw a new vulture playground but no vultures around it. I think they did something to thin down the ungainly black birds.

Maybe they all got bird flu!? 

This was at the shark valley place. Discovered you can go to places in the everglades after dark. I'd like to do this sometime!

I was worried about my daughter and some grandchildren going after dark. I guess there were quite a few people there after dark.

The Shark Valley entrance is a good place to see the Swamp or Marsh hen, also known as the Purple Gallinule.

Some people didn't get close to the edge! I guess we've seen sinkholes swallowing people too many times.

We've seen the sign for the missile  site many times but never visited it before. There are 4 hours from 10-2 that you can visit on your own.

We chose to do it then, a gentleman gave us some good info. The door where Honey is standing was open. I really wanted to go there but....

I didn't want to pay a big fine. These missiles were put there during the Cuban missile crisis. It boggles my mind, what kind ofmoney is spent

to prevent things that never happen.

At Flamingo is one of the few places that Crocs and gators co-exist and manatees swim there too!

We never saw manatees years ago but now they swim in many places.

My 'Splashes' page of the week.

Until next time may you be safe in His care!

I'm so thankful for another day. A lot of family and friends don't have any more days. They're in a better place, I know,

but those left behind are facing empty places at home and around the table. Traveling is harder on us then it used to be.

I guess we'll have to take more time to get where we want to go. Picking out a few places to see and stop and see along the way,

might actually be a good thing.  I always like to see something I've never seen before.

A few pictures from the first days of a journey to the Everglades again. One of my favorite places!

Spoonbills, storks and a pelican! Lovely birds and ugly ones, all of them being useful in the habitat of the glades.

An alligator snapping turtle.  We encouraged him to go to the ditch. He raised up and made us jump, but he/she went. Probably a female looking for an egg laying spot.

And a 'Splashes' page of the day.