Vero Lake: Living in the Country here in Florida

I love seeing all the wildlife around my house. Each day I see turtles, cardinals, blue jays, squirrels, etc. Yesterday I saw the pair of sand hill cranes again. They make a very loud screeching noise. They are very graceful creatures! The other day I saw this turtle again, I see him often, he goes in the road and all, a guy on the bike was screaming and cussing about the overbuilding here, as they are building new houses down the road and doing a lot of backhoe work, he feels bad for the turtles being displaced as do I. It is sad. I have seen so many eagles and owls here, but they keep cutting down more of their habitat and where will they be able to live soon?  While it is nice to live in the country, it is worrisome to see so much of the woods and animal habitat being taking down to build more houses, too bad they wouldn't put a moratorium on it for a while. We really are enjoying all the wildlife here and are grateful to God for all the visits from all of God's creatures ea...

  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! 

  We had a nice visit from some Sand Hill Cranes the other day in our yard. They seemed to really like the bird food in the feeder by the St. Francis of Assisi statue. St. Francis always liked animals too, like I do. I love seeing these majestic birds, they are big, have red topped heads, and are very graceful. They enjoyed eating the food out of the feeder and stayed a very long time. It is a blessing to see all of this wildlife here visiting us in VLE. So so blessed here!