Walking Backwards - Counting Blessings

I'm sitting here on a Sunday afternoon enjoying a piece

of the first zucchini bread of the season!

I made it after coming home from a minor league baseball game.

As I snack, I'm walking backwards through my week, counting blessings as I go.

 The office staff from the office in which my husband works one day a week

enjoyed lunch and the potential of watching a double header earlier this afternoon.

(We only stayed for the first game.)

Before the game, I was blessed by a beautiful morning worship service

at our church.  (No photos.)

 Yesterday, my husband officiated at a funeral, but he encouraged me to take

the Home and Garden Tour by myself..  It had been rained out (over 4" of rain)
 the night before, much to our mutual disappointment.

I'm glad I did it. Here are some photos of a few things that caught my eye....

a leaf that fell on a shadowed sidewalk,

 a lovely lounging spot in the back corner of a well-groomed yard,

and these two chairs that I'm SURE weren't considered an actual part of the tour,

but which I found to be simply enchanting.  

(Maybe it was the powder blue railing....)

I took a TON of pictures on the Tour and posted them on my garden blog.

 Earlier in the week, we took our two grandsons to Sauder Village

in Archbold, OH

These two pictures from there bring me special pleasure.

Finally, one of my favorite flowers...

seen along a walk taken Monday.

I reflect on a happy week with a thankful heart.

Leading a hymn sing at a local nursing home,

driving a friend to her appointment for an MRI,

and meeting friends for lunch were among many other blessings I am counting

this afternoon.
Oh--I almost forgot!  I finished a novel, Those We Love Most, by Lee Woodruff,
and we sold the box-on-legs
that my husband remodeled from an old box I'd found at a garage sale in a field.
(I enjoy selling some of our stuff on a local facebook garage sale site.).

Whatever is good and perfect comes down to us from God our Father, who created all the lights in the heavens. He never changes or casts a shifting shadow.  James 1:17, New Living Translation