The Virgin Mary Led a Godly Life: The Birth of Jesus Foretold 26 In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, 27 to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. 28 The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, you…
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God Bless the Water and Rainy Days
Water is a major theme in the Bible. Perhaps that is because water was so very essential to the nomadic people in the Bible. Consider the 23rd Psalm. 2 He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters….” Psalm 23 A psalm of David. 1 The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing. 2 He makes me lie down…
Celebrating the Very Old Epicopalian Tradition of Rogation Sunday
ut Yesterday, my Episcopal Congregation traveled to a member’s farm to celebrate Rogation Sunday. Since the ceremony involved a blessing of the fields, I assumed that the definition of Rogation would involve a few words about agriculture. But the word “Rogation” is defined as a request. For over 1,000 years, the term “Rogation” has been…
What Is A Morning Chair? My Morning Chair Is Where I Can Be Still and Hear Myself Think
Over 30 years ago, the bank and I owned a perfect piece of land that I called my Mississippi Farm. It only had 25 acres, but in my rose-tinted glasses, the place looked perfect. One of the reasons I loved that little space was that it had a huge gully that rendered most of the…
What Is A Perennial? What Is An Annual? Often, The Lines Blur in Areas that Have Milder Climates
What Is A Perennial? A Perennial is a Plant that Reliably Returns Year after Year. Coneflowers Are Perennials Black-Eyed Susans Are Perennials What Is An Annual? Annuals Only Live One Year. Generally Speaking, They Must be Replanted Each Year. Bachelor Buttons Are Annuals Zinnias Are Annuals Almost all Vegetables Are Annuals In most cases, all…
Black Oil Sunflowers – How to Grow – What You Need to Know
Black Oil Sunflower Jacki Kellum Garden May 19, 2025 Although it is early, my first sunflowers bloomed today. I am delighted to say that I have sunflowers in my garden much earlier than I did last year. Because I kept my bird feeders stocked all winter, I am blessed with early sunflowers. I buy 3…
Understanding the Color Changes in Embroidery and in Painting — To Suggest the Lights and Darks
The Sutesloly Floral Embroidery Project is semi-realistic, and it achieves that degree of realism by its use of layered colors to suggest a degree of shading — to suggest the lights and darks in nature. Notice the Darker Ring Around the Center of the Following Zinnia. Also notice the lightest area at the very center…
The Embroidery Stitches Used in the Sutesloly Floral Embroidery Kit – How to Read the Instruction Sheet
I am preparing to teach how to complete the Sutesloly Floral Embroidery Kit. The Good News is that I have already created tutorials for this project. The Sutesloly Pink Embroidery Project teaches all the stitches necessary to complete the Floral Project: Sutesloly Floral Embroidery Kit – The Printed Canvas I’ll Begin with the Outline Stitch….
How to Find the Entire List of Youtube Tutorials for the Sutesloy Pink Embroidery Project
I am currently teaching the most basic embroidery stitches via the Sutesloly Pink set of 4 embroidery kits available on Amazon. z I’ll be creating separate YouTube Playlists for each set within that Kit. This post will help you find all the tutorials for the Pink Sutesloly Kit: Step 1: When You Complete Step 1,…