meditation in my very own backyard

There are days when I walk into our backyard and the light is just so right.  On this day I took special notice of grandpa’s aloe plant.  I have never seen it with so many blooms as I have this season.  I practiced just a little on manual settings on my still new camera.  I have so much to learn.  It will be really dark, then really light and it seems like it has so many more settings than my old manual camera or even my faithful 20d.  So on this day I took pictures of the aloe, which lead me to the children’s trees.  They are bare but I see promise of spring.  Dylan’s tree is the strongest, the biggest and most healthy it seems.  While the other ones are doing okay, his seems to be thriving and already has a few new tiny leaves.  Being in the backyard is nice.  It’s like a small slice of peace for the day.  I’m content looking closely at God’s creation in my very own backyard.  Rich the other day kept hearing a tiny vibration.  He thought a phone was lost in the backyard someplace when he notice a tiny humming bird building the most tiny nest you have ever seen.  So we filled the hummingbird feeder again.  I’m nervous with little rain this season what our garden will be like, what the cost of water will be like?  I get nervous.  I know in the long run it will be okay.  I wonder how so many states can be covered in winter snow while we can barely get a drizzle of rain? These images below are just my meditation.  I call it that because it’s a time when I feel more near to my Creator.  It’s a time when I feel very special and loved. And of course a heart was found in the aloe:)