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Saturday, November 5, 2016

OUTSIDE MY FRONT DOOR

Mary Marcia
America's STORYTELLER
Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking

Link: http://tellmeastory-marcia.blogspot.com/2016/11/outside-my-front-door.html

Do you see it?

Do you see the beauty all around you?

I stepped outside my front door,
and discovered the ground covered with gold...

...a carpet of gold leaves at my feet.

Crimson red crabapples overhead were iridescent...

...against the bright blue sky.

Do you see it?

Do you see the beauty all around you?

Try a new path...

...somewhere you have never been.

Don't focus on the destination.

It's not a race.

It's a journey for your soul.

Do you see it?

Do you see the beauty all around you?

The building is evidence of a builder...

....a designer.

Creation is evidence of a Creator.

Creation is a reflection of our Creator.

Do you see it?

Do you see His beauty all around you?

Do you see Him reflected in His creation?

Let Him refresh your soul.

Psalm 19

(Verses 1 - 6)

The heavens declare the glory of God;

the skies proclaim the work of His hands.

Day after day they pour forth speech;

night after night they reveal knowledge.

They have no speech, they use no words;

no sound is heard from them.

Yet their voice goes out into all the earth,

their words to the ends of the world.

In the heavens God has pitched a tent for the sun.

It is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber,

like a champion rejoicing to run his course.

It rises at one end of the heavens

and makes its circuit to the other;

nothing is deprived of its warmth.

The law of the LORD is perfect,

refreshing the soul.

Link: http://tellmeastory-marcia.blogspot.com/2016/11/outside-my-front-door.html

Thanks for stopping by!

Come back often, and invite a friend!

Mary Marcia
America's STORYTELLER
Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking

Sunday, October 16, 2016

RECYCLE

Mary Marcia
America's STORYTELLER
Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking

LINK: http://tellmeastory-marcia.blogspot.com/2016/10/recycle.html

Here's a DIY (Do It Yourself) Project that turns scraps of wood into square pumpkins!

The addition of beads, pipe-cleaners, and ribbon make each pumpkin unique.

R E C Y C L E
Verb

1. to alter or adapt for new use
2. to reclaim for further use
3. to undergo reuse or renewal

Our son-in-law, Dave, (married to our daughter, Kristin) had beautiful cedar boards left after building the decks on their new house. I reclaimed lumber from the scrap pile to make square pumpkins with my preschool students.

I cut the cedar scrap boards into squares of various sizes using a band saw and a scroll saw. My father, Jewell Bush, was a carpenter. He taught me how to use power tools. If a woman can use a sewing machine - then she can learn how to use any tool in a workshop.

My preschool students had a blast working with lumber, sandpaper, hammers, nails, paint, pipe-cleaners, ribbons and beads.

Hammers in Preschool?! Why not?!!! I worked with one student at a time when they used the hammer.

A nail in the top of the cedar board became the pumpkin's stem. Kids loved using sandpaper!

I designed and cut a stencil for the facial features, and taught my students how to "stipple" with a stencil brush.

The addition of beads, pipe-cleaners, and ribbon make each pumpkin unique.

Every year when I take out my square pumpkins to decorate - - I remember what a JOY it was to make them with my students.

It's FUN to recycle and reclaim things from the scrap pile!

Thanks for stopping by!

Come back often, and bring a friend!

Mary Marcia

America's STORYTELLER

Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking

Thursday, September 8, 2016

FALL IN LOVE

Mary Marcia
America's STORYTELLER
Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking

LINK: http://tellmeastory-marcia.blogspot.com/2016/09/fall-in-love.html

Thoughts of love like falling leaves...

Swirling in the Autumn breeze.

Author: Unknown

Beautiful Memories of Fall

Seasons: Meteorological and Astronomical

LINK: http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/aboutseasons.html

Fall (Autumnal Fall Equinox) begins on September 22, 2016, for countries in the Northern Hemisphere (United States, Canada). In the Southern Hemisphere (parts of South America, parts of Africa, Australia, and Antarctica) it's known as the Spring (vernal) equinox.

LINK: http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/september-equinox.htm

"The woods are full of fairies;

the sea is full of fish"

the trees are full of golder leave;

let's make an autumn wish."

Author Anonymous

"Come said the wind to
the leaves one day,
Come o're the meadows
and we will play.
Put on your dresses
scarlet and gold,
For summer is gone
and the days grow cold."

Author: A Children's Song of the 1880's

The foliage has been losing its freshness

through the month of August,

and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself

like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty

who has seen one season too many.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."

Albert Camus

falling leaves
hide the path
so quietly

John Bailey, Autumn

a haiku year, 2001

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Mary Marcia

America's STORYTELLER

Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking

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Saturday, November 5, 2016

OUTSIDE MY FRONT DOOR

Sunday, October 16, 2016

RECYCLE

Thursday, September 8, 2016

FALL IN LOVE

Swirling in the Autumn breeze.

"Come said the wind to
the leaves one day,
Come o're the meadows
and we will play.
Put on your dresses
scarlet and gold,
For summer is gone
and the days grow cold."

AMERICA'S STORYTELLER, Marcia Norwood

TELL ME A STORY

Saturday, November 5, 2016

OUTSIDE MY FRONT DOOR

Sunday, October 16, 2016

RECYCLE

Thursday, September 8, 2016

FALL IN LOVE

Swirling in the Autumn breeze.

"Come said the wind to the leaves one day, Come o're the meadows and we will play. Put on your dresses scarlet and gold, For summer is gone and the days grow cold."

AMERICA'S STORYTELLER, Marcia Norwood

"Come said the wind to
the leaves one day,
Come o're the meadows
and we will play.
Put on your dresses
scarlet and gold,
For summer is gone
and the days grow cold."