A Retreat for Peaceful Contemplation

194959799100195

Comments

  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Posts: 9,632

    Onco.....back and cha........and everyone else who loves the summer........image

  • minustwo
    minustwo Posts: 13,799

    Adding my wishes for an easy surgery & rapid recovery with minimum pain.

  • gmafoley
    gmafoley Posts: 5,971

    Thank you - It is a 2 hour scar revision done in- office. I could use all the prayer I could get because all my scars turned keloid last time - allergic to the dissolvable stitches. I will look at my pictures and breathe and wish all a safe Christmas and New Year!

    image

  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Posts: 9,632

    We all love summer.......thinking of you GMA............image

  • gmafoley
    gmafoley Posts: 5,971

    Thank you for putting it back Ducky - with rain and snow it's always nice to think - "warm".

  • gmafoley
    gmafoley Posts: 5,971

    image

  • \Love the bearded bird box. Merry Christmas to the Foleys, and best wishes for tomorrow Gma.

  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Posts: 9,632

    MERRY CHRISTMAS GMA........YOUR A GOOD FRIEND.....HOPE SANTA BRINGS YOU EVERYTHING YOU WANT.........HUGS

  • image

  • gmafoley
    gmafoley Posts: 5,971

    Beautiful. Thank you. Surgery is over. Pain med taken and going to kid's home through Portland traffic.

  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Posts: 9,632

    Glad it's over..........hugs

  • Great news Gma! Thank God that's over. Happy Christmas. XXX


    Time to break out the robins!


    image


    We wish you a Merry Christmas


    image


    We wish you a Merry Christmas


    image


    We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New year

  • OncoWarrior
    OncoWarrior Posts: 3,326

    Happy Christmas, Gma. Hope you will be pampered through your healing time.

    feline, interesting to see the similarities and differences between robins European and American.

    Erithacus rubecula with cocked head.jpg European.

    Turdus-migratorius-002.jpg American.



  • Wow! I had no idea they were different! I am really learning a lot about birds on here! Winking

    Do yopu have American robins or European ones on your Christmas cards or is that a stupid question?


    (DH is locked in the sitting room wrapping secret items so I can't ask him)

  • OncoWarrior
    OncoWarrior Posts: 3,326

    oohh, oohh, "secret items" sounds good! Are you going to Midnight Mass?

    I have not seen robins used on greeting cards here. Cardinals are probably used most.

    There are several varieties. This is a male.

    image

    Here is a Mr. & Mrs. pair. We have some that stay here all year round. But they do not sing during winter.

    image

  • Glad you're on the mend GMA. Merry Christmas and thank you for this thread. Safe travels!!

  • Lovely Cardinals!

  • gmafoley
    gmafoley Posts: 5,971

    What we came home to after Christmas. Surgery went well - he did more scars than expected - around 75 visible stitches and 5 new incisions at this point. Healing nicely so far. Stitches come out on the 6th.

    image

  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Posts: 9,632

    Beautiful GMA..........glad your doing well..................

  • gmafoley
    gmafoley Posts: 5,971

    A Guildwars 2 screenshot of a vista. This game is so pretty.

    image

    A real-life vista view from my house.

    image

  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Posts: 9,632

    GMA......breath taking...I sent this as a group messasge to my kids....

  • ThumbsUp

  • gmafoley
    gmafoley Posts: 5,971

    image

    Here is another old favorite.

  • gmafoley
    gmafoley Posts: 5,971

    image

    Tomorrow is New Years day and I started thinking about lots of things. I don't do New Year Resolutions. I am grateful that I am alive and can share my time with my family and friends. My whole goal in life is to share the love of Jesus with the people around me and share how this has changed my life. The most important is showing love - "Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends." I Corinthians 13: 4-8.

    If I could show one person a day, this love, I have made my goal. It is something that is contagious. Think of all the people we could reach if we all showed love to one person a day.

  • "If I could show one person a day, this love, I have made my goal. It is something that is contagious. Think of all the people we could reach if we all showed love to one person a day."

    Good thought for a New Years Day Gma Nerdy

  • image

  • OncoWarrior
    OncoWarrior Posts: 3,326

    Northern Lights at the Cliffs of Moher, New Year day 2016

    Looking north towards O'Brien's tower. photograph by Niall Cosgrove

    image

  • OncoWarrior
    OncoWarrior Posts: 3,326

    Here is another one.

    image

  • susan3
    susan3 Posts: 2,631

    image

  • susan3
    susan3 Posts: 2,631

    image