Mosaic Monday~Boys and Trains

What is it about little boys and trains?  What is it about Big boys and trains?  What is it?  

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"The romance of boating is gone, now. In Hannibal the steamboatman is no longer a god. The youth don't talk river slang any more. Their pride is apparently railways -- which they take a peculiar vanity in reducing to initials ("C B & Q") -- an affectation which prevails all over the west. They roll these initials as a sweet morsel under the tongue."
 - Notebook #20, reprinted in Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Vol. II.

When Grandpa heard Daniel was coming to visit he got out the train. And so that evening dinner was late and Grandpa played trains with Daniel and cousin, Neil. Oh, what a treasure!!!

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Thanks be to God!

Cathy

The Little Red House and share in the beauty offered there.   And though I have nothing to offer at  Macro Monday  Lisa has a wonderful time planned for you.  The pictures all are an inspiration!

Mosaic Monday~~Deer Colorado

Deer Colorado,

We returned home today to Indiana.  We had a grand visit as always.  We shared time in laughter and joy with family.  We were thrilled by your deer visits.  It was in the beauty of your sunrise that God is truly in our midst.

Will return as soon as we can.

Your Native Daughter

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Thanks be to God!!!

Cathy

The Little Red House and share in the beauty offered there.   And though I have nothing to offer at  Macro Monday  Lisa has a wonderful time planned for you.  The pictures all are an inspiration!

The Gold Fish and Mosaic Monday

nature is God's own

color and life abounding

thanks be to God

The fish in the pond are finally coming to the top to feed so we can see them.  We knew they were still in the pond as there were none floating as if they had died, but just wondered how they were doing in all the heat.  Look!  They are thriving.

The Gerber Daisy looks like bleach had been dropped on it by accident, but no, that too is from God's palate.  Wonders all of God's creation!

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Thanks be to God!

Cathy

The Little Red House and share in the beauty offered there.   And though I have nothing to offer at  Macro Monday  Lisa has a wonderful time planned for you.  The pictures all are an inspiration!

Mosaic Monday

This week I missed Haiku My Heart...I hate it when that happens.  It give me a chance to use the "little gray cells" to challenge my grasp of the English language.  So in conjunction with Mosaic Monday I will add the haiku I didn't post earlier.

tender is new life

gentle is the love we give

to nurture and grow

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Thanks be to God!

Cathy

The Little Red House and share in the beauty offered there.   And though I have nothing to offer at  Macro Monday  Lisa has a wonderful time planned for you.  The pictures all are an inspiration!

Mosaic Monday~Macro Monday

The rhododendrons have been just exquisite this spring.  

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Glory be to God!!!!!

Cathy  

And please visit Mary at The Little Red House and share in the beauty offered there.   And though I hve nothing to offer at  Macro Monday  Lisa has a wonderful time planned for you.  The pictures all are an inspiration!

Mosaic Monday

Ice skating birthday
Twas a grand celebration
Oh what fun we had!!!

Happy Ninth Birthday, Ainsley!

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Thanks be to God!

Cathy

And please visit Mary at The Little Red House and share in the beauty offered there.   And though I hve nothing to offer at  Macro Monday  Lisa has a wonderful time planned for you.  The pictures all are an inspiration!

Sunlit Sunday and Mosaic Monday

Karen has invited us to join her on Sunlit Sunday.  Stop by and offer your bit of sunshine today.
And please visit Mary at The Little Red House and share in the beauty offered there.   And though I hve nothing to offer at  Macro Monday  Lisa has a wonderful time planned for you.  The pictures all are an inspiration!

Mosaic Monday

In December we gathered at Saint Meinrad Archabbey for the recommissioning of five Providence Associates.  There is never a time when the beauty of this holy ground does not inspire.  This day it was strange to be only wearing a jacket and finding it so mild here in Indiana.  Twas a grand day!!!

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Thanks be to God!!

Cathy

Now please visit Mary at The Little Red House and share in the beauty offered there.   Please visit Lisa at  Macro Monday  for she also has much to offer.  The pictures are grand.

Mosaic Monday

When we give each other our Christmas presents in his name, let us remember that he has given us the sun and the moon and the stars, the earth with its forests and mountains and oceans and all that lives and moves upon them...And to save us from our own foolishness and from all our sins, he came down to earth and gave himself.  Venite adoremus Dominum.  ~~Sigrid Undset~~  

Wishing everyone a very Blessed Christmas.  I will have a busy week with family coming and going.  I'm not sure how much time I will be able to visit here!!!  Will make every effort to visit you at "HOME."  

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Thanks be to God!!!

Cathy

Now please visit Mary at The Little Red House and share in the beauty offered there.   Please visit Lisa at  Macro Monday  for she also has much to offer.  The pictures are grand.

Santas and Such Mosaic Monday

Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.  ~~Laura Ingalls Wilder

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Thanks be to God
Cathy



Now please visit Mary at The Little Red House and share in the beauty offered there.   Please visit Lisa at  Macro Monday  for she also has much to offer.  The pictures are grand.

Mosaic Monday~Macro Monday

I would maintain that thanks are the highest forms of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. ~G. K. Chesterton

Though it is hard to make him out there is indeed a little critter on my marigold!!! He's a nice contrast.

I have had one of the grandest two weekends ever!!!  Last weekend we spent time in NC with the Keller Clan there and enjoyed a beautiful Thanksgiving Holiday.  This weekend we were with the Keller Clan of GA.  Yesterday was Xavier's Baptism and the glory of God shown all round!  

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Thanks be to God!

Cathy

Now please visit Mary at The Little Red House and share in the beauty offered there.   Please visit Lisa at  Macro Monday  for she also has much to offer.  The pictures are grand.

~~Mosaic Monday~Macro Monday~~

When we were at The Woods two weeks ago we were able to see the progress that has been made in reconstructing The Cabin on the site of the original cabin where Saint Mother Theodore and her companions first attended Mass after their arrival there.  This was also the home of Father Buteux.  It must have been a very intimate celebration!  It is being constructed with the same tools that would have been used to construct constructed it nearly 175 years ago.

EVOLUTION II

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Thanks be to God

Cathy

Now please visit Mary at The Little Red House and share in the beauty offered there.   Please visit Lisa at  Macro Monday  for she also has much to offer.  The pictures are grand.

~Mosaic Monday~

Wishing all a safe, happy and blessed Thanksgiving!


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And again, 
Thanks be to God!


Cathy

Now please visit Mary at The Little Red House and share in the beauty offered there.   And though I have no "macro photo" today please visit Lisa at  Macro Monday  for she also has much to offer.  The pictures are grand.

Mosaic Monday~Macro Monday

Dewdrops and flowers

Glorious and wonderful days

Memories of this

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Thanks be to God!

Cathy

Now please visit Mary at The Little Red House and share in the beauty offered there.   And though I have no "macro photo" today please visit Lisa at  Macro Monday  for she also has much to offer.  The pictures are grand.

Mosaic Monday~Macro Monday

Gifted young lady

She dances and sings with joy

She's MY granddaughter!

This is not a picture that has been altered!  The tree really is growing out the  clock tower of the Greensburg, IN courthouse.  If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes I wouldn't have believed it!  Wishing all a wonderful week!

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Thanks be to God!

Cathy

Now please visit Mary at The Little Red House and share in the beauty offered there.   And though I have no "macro photo" today please visit Lisa at  Macro Monday  for she also has much to offer.  The pictures are grand.

Mosaic Monday~Macro Monday

The Westside Nut Club Fall Festival was this last week and we had a grand time.  The Kellers and Stauffers from INDY were down and we each had our moments at the Festival.  There is so much food and such a variety that you just don't know where to begin.  There's the chicken and dumplings, brain sandwich,  fried cookie dough,  Hay Stacks, chili and steak sandwiches.  And don't forget the rides.

This weekend was one of those Indiana weekends you just want to put into a bottle and save for a time in January or February when you want to go outside and revel in the glory of the sun and bask in its rays.  Glory be to God!

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Thanks be to God!

Cathy

Now please visit Mary at The Little Red House and share in the beauty offered there.   And though I have no "macro photo" today please visit Lisa at  Macro Monday  for she also has much to offer.  The pictures are grand.

Mosaic Monday~Macro Monday

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A Wonderful dinner overlooking the Ohio River on a 

glorious Autumn Even

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Thanks be to God!

Cathy

Now please visit Mary at The Little Red House and share in the beauty offered there.   Lisa at  Macro Monday  also has much to offer.  The pictures are grand.

~~Mosaic Monday~Macro Monday~~

Pictures here were taken in Sheridan, Wyoming this summer.  It was one of those unplanned stops along the way.  It was well worth the detour!  A stop by the Sheridan Inn, that hopes to open it's doors again as a hotel and not just a museum, and the Buffalo Bill Bar was a treat!

I really appreciate how life must have been before all the medical 

advances with which we have been blessed.  I can only imagine

how difficult it would have been to treat illnesses without all the

medications we have today!  We really are blessed!!!

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Thanks be to God!

Cathy

Now please visit Mary at The Little Red House and share in the beauty offered there.   Lisa at  Macro Monday  also has much to offer.  The pictures are grand.

~~Mosaic Monday~Macro Monday~~

Soft and gentle rain
Revives a sleeping nature
Glorious color.

Isn't Gentleman "Todd Turtle" handsome?
All decked out in his Sunday Best!


Wishing all a grand week!
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Thanks be to God!
Cathy

Now please visit Mary at The Little Red House and share in the beauty offered there.   Lisa at  Macro Monday  also has much to offer.  The pictures are grand.

Mosaic Monday/Macro Monday

Pictures from vacation, 2011

Clouds flung into view
A vast sea of fluffy white
Just for our delight!

Wee flowers in the pond. 


Tis the season's end
Dainty ladies wilted not
Under scorching heat


Wishing all a grand Labor Day!
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Thanks be to God!


CATHY

Now please visit Mary at The Little Red House and share in the beauty offered there.   Lisa at  Macro Monday  also has much to offer.  The pictures are grand.