Autumn and a GrandGirl's Birthday

♫♪ HAPPIEST BIRTHDAY to JESSICA ♪♪♫  9/24/2011

You are such a sweet lady..a wonderful daughter..a sweetie grandgirl...a fabulous wife and an AWESOME mom. I also am sure you will be a famous writer of books, someday...GOOD LUCK with that.:)

We are so proud to call you GRANDDAUGHTER....
Lots of love from your GRANDDAD and MEMAW

We hope your birthday is full of EVERYTHING that you want it to be......♥♥♥ We love you very much!

I found this ADORABLE basket at the THRIFT STORE and just  had to take it on a photo shoot..

...at the PARK, of course.  ♥

Nothing fancy....nothing elaborate...

I loaded up the back of my SUV with a little FALL.....and off to the park did go....

Now THIS photo would make an awesome SHADOW SHOT for SUNDAY..

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See how low our little PARK LAKE is ?

All the brown dirt you see here...water USED to be there.

My little boy, DAVID, used to play at this park a lot...he and a neighbor friend.
Mr. Sweet made David a little Styrofoam boat and put a tiny motor on it.
David would get on one side of the lake...his little friend, Jimmy, would get on the other side.
They would send the boat back and forth....and, YEP, sometimes the boat would not go
just where the boys wanted it to go.
And, the best I remember, every now and then, it would get to the middle and just DIE.
Then, the boys had to wait until the wind blew it back to the bank.
They had a lot of fun, good days here on this little PARK LAKE.

The WATER CYPRUS almost died, due to the drought.

The little park lake is so shallow, I might could just walk across it, from one side to the other.

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The white line on the old tree shows the depth of water, once a few years ago.

These poor, struggling trees are just about the ONLY fallish change I could find..

 Yes...I had to bring my OWN FAUX FALL in my thrifted basket.

The leaves on the trees aren't turning yet...

A couple weeks more, maybe, and I can make another trip to this park for lots of COLOR.

 Acorns, pods...pine cones....all from this neighborhood park.

I found a tiny bit of Autumn Color...

"They hid him for three months. But as the baby got older, he cried louder and Jochebed knew that soon Pharoah's soldiers would hear him. They would find the baby and kill him."

"Jochebed wanted to save her baby. It was not safe to keep him in the house anymore. She went to the River Nile and picked some bulrushes. She wove the bulrushes to make a basket. She covered the basket with tar and slime to make it waterproof. Then Jochebed wrapped up her beautiful baby and gave him one last cuddle and kiss. Then she tucked him gently into the basket and crept down to the River with Miriam.
Gently, she lowered the little basket into the river among the bulrushes. Jochebed went home and prayed that God would keep her little baby safe. Miriam stayed hidden in the bulrushes to watch over him."
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We have ALWAYS so enjoyed the ducks and geese that live on this lake.

Our kids and then the grands have been feeding them for years.
When the kids were smaller, I never, ever threw away old bread..right into the freezer it would go.
Then, when some of us hiked out to the park (not a BIG hike as the park is only 4 blocks from our house:), we always had bread to toss to the duckies.

This is an adorable AUTUMN TASSEL that I won a couple years ago from our

infamous SUSAN that MIGHT be BETWEEN NAPS ON THE PORCH.

It is a beautiful piece and it will be showing up several times during all the fun FALLNESS.

Isn't a FOUND FEATHER supposed to bring you GOOD LUCK?
I am pretty sure that's true...♥♥♥

 Again, when all the kids were little, we took many, MANY
Treasure Hunts....and a really good feather was always the
most sought after. Of course, we found a lot around the little lake and, acting like it was just a MIRACLE that we found one there where ALL THE DUCKS WERE, made it three times
as exciting for the little ones. They would keep the feathers until all the feathers fell off...SWEET MEMORIES bringing tears to my eyes.
I am so thankful to be a mother and a grandmother..even a GREAT grandmother.

"Pharoah's daughter came down to the river edge. She had come down to wash and was surprised to see the little basket floating just out of reach. She sent one of her maids in to fetch it and when she opened the lid, the little baby woke up and started to cry. Pharoah's daughter loved the little baby and even though she knew he was an Israelite baby, she decided to keep him."

"Miriam was very frightened. What would happen to her little brother? Then she had an idea. She ran up to the princess. "Shall I fetch a nurse to look after the baby for you?" she asked. She was very happy when the princess said, "Yes, go!"
Miriam ran quickly to fetch Jochebed.
The princess gave the baby to Jochebed.
"Take this little one and raise him for me, and I will pay you for looking after him," she said.
Jochebed took her little baby back home. God had answered their prayers and their little boy was safe. The princess called the baby "Moses" because
Moses means "taken out" and she had taken him out of the river.
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God had chosen Moses to be the one who would lead the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt.
God made all these things happen so that Moses was saved.
Jochebed could not save Moses. She had to leave him in the bulrushes.
But with God all things are possible. God arranged everything in a wonderful way and Jochebed was able to keep her baby while he was young and teach him all about God.
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