Photodump - My Garden

WARNING!!! There are 20 photos in this post! Expect slowness!























All photos taken on a digital point-and-shoot. Photoshop was used to shrink&sharpen (sharpen not needed if I'd left them big), and watermark. No colour correction, no darkening or lightening, this is what you can get from a normal camera.

and more and more

there are now 14. one spent, 2 open, 4 opening, and the rest are still shooting up.


I LOVE MY GARDEN

up up and up

we're up to nine now, with a few more bulbs looking likely. theres a couple with green leafy bits poking out, that might very well split down the middle and start sprouting stalks. but still only one with actually flowers on it. ooooooooooooooh i can hardly wait till they all reach flowering point!!!

the number after 7, and before 9

ive been reading too much terry pratchett...


anyway. more flowers!!! well.. almost. not long now. were up to 8 stalks! one in full bloom, and 7 on the upward path!


in not so happy news, my other little flowers are not doing so well. weve planted some little ground cover flowers between the pavers in from of the BBQ. and its been raining A LOT the past few days.. and i think the poor little things are getting too much water. they look so unhappy. all dried out and brown... we may have to dig them out, put snad and gravel in the bottoms of the holes so they drain, and plant new ones. poor little flowers.

pretty garden!!

there are 4-5 more shoots poking through today. our ratty little flower bed is going to be a mass of pink in the next few days.

i really need to get some more of these. in different colours. we used to have white, and various shades of pink. now theyre all the same pink. i dont know what happened.....

there are naked ladies in my garden

did that get your attention? dont panic. its a type of flower. a lily. and there are at least three there now. im not sure how viable the other bulbs are - theyve been growing in the garden for some 15+ years. if theyre still good, i should have at least 10 by the time they all shoot.


this world that God has created for us never ceases to amaze me. today is wednesday. this years first naked ladies look like this:

on sunday, they looked about like this:

in three days they have gone from barely poking out, to nearly fully opened.

people often ask how we - all us crazy religious people - can believe in God. look at those photos again. how can you not?

does it really make more sense to believe that the entire universe came into existance through the spontaneous combustion of nothing, without the interference of a higher being? of God?

does it really make sense that our world, this earth we live on, is the exact right distance from the sun, at the exact right angle, and spinning at the exact right speed, for life to exist? and as far as we know, no other planet is?

for that matter, does the existence of life really make sense? if the universe came from nothing, how did all the rocks and gases that form all the planets and starts happen? and ignoring that, how did life form out of all that inanimate rock and gas?

next time you eat an apple, look inside. inside that teeny brown seed is everything needed to grow an entire tree. and of course, it makes absolute sense that it happened by pure random chance.

how can i believe in God? a God who created this universe, set our earth at the right distance from the sun, spinning on an angle at the exact right speed for us to have somewhere to live. a God who has packed everything needed to grow a tree into a tiny brown seed. a God who can make a beautiful bunch of flowers grow from a whithered white bulb in less than a week.

how can i believe in such a God?

easily. how can you not?