Vero Lake: Living in the Country here in Florida

                                                 We need to count our blessings at all times! Always! Today so many are so unhappy. They are negative, hateful, and live in misery. It is sad to see. We need to pray for them, teach them the joy of Jesus and gratitude. We see so much aggression today by some people, also unhappy people, this is not normal, we need to live with love, being kind, loving, and patient. We have some nice pineapples growing in our backyard, a lot of them, but two have babies coming soon, new fruit. I am blessed to have the beach, pond, and lake close by to go to, walk, pray, and enjoy. I sure enjoyed all this week. We even had a bad incident where someone backed into my car, at the Wabasso Beach he did minor damage to my door wall, a little dent. the guy sped off instead of assuming responsibility, but then he returned and paid me a small ...

                      You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you. ~Romans 8:9-11  Beach and lake/woods blessed, letting God's Spirit dwell in me! It has been a blessed week. I am enjoying my woods, pond, and lake around where I live and the beach close by. God is so good to me. I am so blessed by God. Plus enjoying my retirement so much too! I have started walking again, listening to my news and walking by the lake, pond, and woods by my house. I just love nature! I am so happy where we live now to enjoy al...

What a day of blessings! While we did have rain overnight and some while out and about, a lot while out at our home, we did enjoy a nice outing. We had a nice time at Golden Sands Beach, it was so nice, a real blessing, fairly calm, and so nice. We had wanted to go to Pelican Island Refuge and the Sebastian Inlet, we have lived here for 3+ years, but have never gone that far north before on A1A. Today we did! What a blessing! So nice, no people, so much nature and dunes and all. It was a lovely day to see all. There are so many trails for hiking and birding. So much to see and enjoy! God is so good to us here where we live. The beaches at the Sebastian Inlet reminded us of Cape Cod some, so much nature, little growth or population in this area. We are blessed blessed blessed! We live in such a pristine, naturally, and peaceful place with so much nature to enjoy and give thanks to God for! What a blessing!   

  I love seeing all these little frogs! I see so many since all the rain and Hurricane Ian. So many of them, especially in the mornings! Look here in the top photo two in one Culusia plant on the leaves, so cute! Another on the Porter Weed. I also see a larger one on the window when I removed one of the hurricane panels today. The other day when I was walking in toward the house, a little frog even jumped on my foot. They are very cute. I saw so many tadpoles in the standing water for a few weeks in the canals around the house, so many, so that is why we have so many frogs now. They are very cute. I love all wildlife. I saw something this even run fast across my back yard, it looked black and white, like a dog or goat, then I remembered it said on a sign down the road that someone lost their goat. What a blessing all of God's creatures! 

  Almost daily I am visited by some of God's creatures here where we live! What a blessing from our Lord! I love seeing all the birds, blue jays, cardinals, sand hill cranes, ibis, redheaded woodpeckers, mockingbirds, squirrels, bunnies, owls, eagles, turtles, etc.  Even I see a nice black snake often, and lots of butterflies, dragonflies, and bees. I love seeing all of these critters out and about! It reminds me God is all around us and is blessing us with his creations to enjoy, like a beautiful flower!  God has really made Heaven here on Earth for us, but unfortunately, man ruins that by their greed, corruption, fraud, selfishness, mediocrity, ego, hate, over development, and destruction. All we can do is pray for a wonderful world and for each other that we all turn to God and live by His laws and love. Maybe then we can restore and have Heaven here on Earth again! Thank you God for all your blessed creatures and their visits!