AMAZING THINGS

I probably shouldn't even try to explain what I remember from a general conference talk because it's somewhat vague. It was either Saturday morning or Sunday morning session that President Monson told the story about a woman who wrote several books. She had lost her eye sight early in life and had a pinpoint size scope in her vision. She became an education administrator and many other things. He talked about how we take for granted what we see and should appreciate the variety - - and so, yesterday, I was overcome with the variety that I saw throughout the day. I took a picture of a few of them.


We started the summer with two 4 inch tomatoe plants that we thought would never make it. They outgrew the pots we planted them in so I had Dale help me plant them in the landscaping where a few plants had previously died. I thought the wind would beat them up so we didn't put wire cages around them. They grew like weeds and sprawled across the landscaping. When it threatened to freeze a few weeks ago, Dale and Bill went down and cut all the vines off and put them in the shop. There were about 50 green, good sized tomatoes and we thought maybe a few would ripen. Bill got a recipe for 'fried green tomatoes' and we had them that night for dinner. (I'd have to be starving to try them again) Well, yesterday was garbage day and we decided we better go check on the tomatoes and get them in the garbage. Bill went down and called up to me to come down. I could tell by his voice that I was going to find something amazing - - the picture below is what we found. Half of the tomatoes had ripened on the vines. Now we know that next year we'll have tomatoes well into the freezing time. Who would have known? Another week and we should have the last batch ripened.


This tree, in the backyard, turns the most amazing colors in the fall. I love it!!!


Last night we had another amazing sunset and view of Mt Adams, right from the privacy of our back deck. We see this kind of sunset or ones similar to it on most clear nights. AGAIN I love it!!!