THE MONTH OF APRIL HAS BEEN OVERLY BUSY FOR ME and busy months are sometimes needed. The landscape that I have seen this month as I travel across the Kansas Prairie and through small communities has been one of winter grays turning into splashes of color awakening the horizons. Light greens in the trees with pink from the red bud trees add beauty as the season becomes Spring. Trees with white blossoms, pink Red Bud trees, yellow Forsythia bushes, Tulips in a variety of colors, Daffodils and Jonquils popping through the soil...mark the early Spring. This is one sight I long for after a very cold winter where colors have been dormant. With the Spring colors waking up, I sense a time of year that I absolutely love.
Dandelions are popping up with splashes of bright canary yellow flowers. Actually dandelions are edible as they are a HERB with great health benefits for those who eat them. Today, I'll go pick some and mix them into a salad pretending I have no idea that so many dislike these edible herbs growing in their lawns. God is freely providing abundant herbs that so many greatly dislike calling them weeds. If eating dandelions, make sure the dandelions have not been sprayed with chemicals to kill them.
I have been on the road quite a bit this month going from here to there and back again to here. Here I am. Seeing the bountiful prairies as I drive the car along the way adds tranquility as a driver being transported to other places that I need to be. Yesterday, I drove by LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE MUSEUM outside of Independence, Kansas. Decided to stop, stretch my legs and see the inside of the buildings they have there to tour seeing first hand how others lived many moons ago.
Standing in the great outdoors made me want to just stay there and live. grins. The weather was pleasant which added to admiring the surroundings I was seeing. The Gift Store was open, the Log Cabin, School House and Post Office as well. I picked up a little doll that I thought was simply too cute. She is now sitting on my bookshelves at HOME. Hubby purchased a coffee mug that he is drinking his morning coffee out of today.
The Gift Store is located in a tiny old FARMHOUSE where shelves are loaded with many books for sell. Rhonda, the nice sells clerk was playing PA's FIDDLE music which added a nice touch to the place where we looked around.
The flower border around the front of the FARMHOUSE was ripe with green leafed Irises getting ready to bloom. A Lilac bush in the yard was already bloomed so we got a whiff of the lilac fragrance which took me back to my childhood where we had a large Lilac bush in the corner of the backyard where I played for hours in the safety of my fenced-in yard under the tall tree that stood next to a redwood fence. I was in Heaven as I played in the dirt under the shade tree that had the Lilac bush beside it. I could hide in this corner behind the Lilac bush, the Elm tree and the redwood fence.
I can be there in a split second in my thoughts. Life was simpler then and I think I need to return to this instead of harboring so many chaotic thoughts that only run me down. Chaotic activities can go right along with it.
Early Spring on the Prairie is all I wanted as I stood there feeling the cool breeze blow across my face and body. We were the only ones there for the time being and it was BLISS.
I feel a change coming on. Deep serious thoughts of what needs added to my LIFE and what needs to change. When I have moments like this, I know that I am able to think and hear clearly what's in my heart.
I no longer want to attend church that is like a broadway production. I don't need the hustle and bustle of city life. I don't even need or want all the glitz and glamour of city life. I can be content living away from the crowds and traffic doing more of my own thing.
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