With the window's down

I have so much catching up to do!

this is just a trivial post...

when it comes to life and what's real important!

After traveling over 760 miles...I finally found a motel room tonight.

Hubby had to get ahead of me and locate one....

because there was no room!

all motel's and hotels FULL!

The one I have now...is well, one of the last good ones left...

it has 3 queen size beds...just for one me!

and other weary travelers were coming in....

But there was NO room at the INN!

I could share? I would share?

but then...who are these travelers?

My hubby always tells me, I see the world through rose colored

glasses and I am to naive....hummm

I think it is more so that...I want to see

THE BEST!

having said all the above...today as I traveled 760 plus miles...

one thing came to mind...

why? am I one of the only ones traveling with my window down???

in all those miles..I saw one young man, baseball cap backwards,

in his pickup..enjoying as much as me...

and then there was the couple in the jeep.

I cant be the only one that loves to travel with her windows down!

Maybe I am old fashion...and it comes from...the era of NOT having AC.

But it was perfect today...high 70's - 85....

the wind coming through the window...the sunshine

the tunes playing..the beauty of the country I was driving through

that to me...

is the feel of freedom!

maybe it's all the electronics?

I can say   ..that when getting gas...I looked

like Marie lavoe! my hair standing on end!!!

But I don't care.. wind blown and in knots!

And just so you all know! I don't use my phone when driving...ask my family!!!

this was a selfie taken when traffic was down to 35...

and no one around me..and notice..I am NOT looking at the phone!

I have a smart phone with my name on it..for ummm 7 months now

I don't want to use it.

I see how addicting it has become to my family members...

I don't think they even all know

how much they use them..when in the company of others.

So until I can get some of my family addictions to the smart phone...

to be more controlled..I want no part of it.

i got through life just fine without all these electronics's

I don't want to become a slave to them

so here i sit..wondering????

there must be more of you...

that love to travel with the windows

DOWN :) 

My rear view mirror

The view from my rear view mirror....

is a view that touches my heart deeply...

I don't have time to post pictures...but I will once my travels have ended...

For me...the place you call home..is a place that holds the happiest of time's

and the most painful of times...

Because that is what life is....and the place that holds both..is your home town!

for me Montana is my home town...the place I met my husband and

raised our family...

there is another place that holds the same feeling's for me

My childhood home town...

I saw my Mom's and my Opa's gravestone in person for the first time.

I planted flowers and bought some thing's

to make it look pretty...

this is a place I will always always come back to...

a place my soul fly's free and my heart sing's...

despite the painful times...

simply because it's

the home to a good part
of my life's memories..
My home town....

A God gift

I was working on a post about the

Kittens/ cats that have come into our lives...

But something came in the mail!

These arrived yesterday! I had gotten a e-mail

from a blogger I followed.

She simply said, "I saw your post, on your new home and wanted

to give you these two prints as a house warming gift."

I was surprised, delighted, blown away!

Because you see, that just NEVER happens to Me :) A stranger offering me a gift!

But I have learned to accept a gift, I have learned to be gracious.

So I sent her my address, and yesterday they arrived!

But that is when I learned something...

In her e-mail she had attached pic's of these prints...You see its a red barn with a owl perched in 

the tree...like our home "Owl Creek Farm"

and...

A white house with 2 chimneys..just like our home, "Owl creek farm"

but that still isn't what the discovery was all about...

I realized very quickly...

These were not just Prints! These were her prints!

she is the Artist that created these prints!

(I write music and I  copy write my music)

I was astonished, pleased and felt very honored!

Then I noticed she signed the backs!

How fun is that!!!

At this moment yesterday...I was just so pleased and delighted

what a gift, and HOW COULD I NOT KNOW she was a artist???

But what touched me most???

how could she know me?

the scriptures, the sayings...and then a lil added bonus...

2 little note cards... "Trust in the lord with all your heart" and "With God all things are possible"

My emotions were high...hubby looked but he couldn't understand

what touched me MOST???

how did she know, my faith? my love for something so much bigger then this life..

how did she know...

"I choose to follow the still small whisper of God"

I tried to post this last night..and for some reason my lap top refused to 

work and get on-line..so I waited till this morning..

But first..i wanted to understand her art work..and how I hadn't noticed...

From her blog, I found she had another blog..and from there

a Etsy shop...

and from there!

OH MY!!!

It was a print in her Etsy shop...it says it is hers...

could it be???

I ran to my fireplace mantel ...

I looked, I saw, YES YES it's Donna!

BUT she couldn't have known

this is the picture of all she would have known

It was in my post 

The owl creek farm home tour

I however had NOT yet put some of my favorite things out!

things that were still in the 5th wheal I have lived in for 2 years!

things like this:

(pic taken this morning during a thunderstorm

I have not hung it yet)

on my mantel, one of my favorite saying's,

one that I keep with me, and in a spot of honor at all times!

"let us be silent that we may hear the whisper of God'

`Ralph Waldo Emerson'

this is HIS quote..but this is Donna's Art!!!

And in that moment...I was in utter AWE!

she wasn't a stranger at all!

i don't know now, when I got this print.

I only know, when I saw it..I had to have it,

it was everything I am!

it is always in my living room's

were everyone can see it!

and when I went on the road with my husband

it was one of the few items I brought

to decorate the 5th wheal with...

 Here is a pic of it..in our 5th wheal

And now, to the friend I have always known..for she lived with me and didn't know it!

Donna, I am a artist to..not like you, I wish I could paint..and I dabble here and there

sometimes they come out and sometimes they don't.

(I have one I posted on here)

The old farm house I loved!

The thing is..as a Artist sometimes we never know, if something we created

touched someone's life!

Donna, you have no clue how much this print has meant to me.

Yes, it is Ralph waldo Emerson's quote...

but always when I think of the quote

I see your art!

Through some of the most difficult times in my life...

I look and remember that God is leading my life,

that I do hear his still small whisper...

and I find great peace then!

even in the house hunt, when things fell through,

and I wondered..I once again would look at your art, with his quote

and remember all is as is should be...

Dreams and blessing's

And the Lord blessed me one more time!

because Donna I was questioning some thing's

and with your gift and finding out...

that you created a piece I have had in my home for many years now...

I know it was his way...

of saying

"I am here"

"let us be silent so we may hear the whisper of God"

I don't think "Thank you" can do justice to

how my soul smiled,

how you made my heart sing...

I will find a wonderful place

for our

"Owl creek Farm'

prints

From the bottom of my heart...

Thank you, for the gift of you! and your ART!

Much love from me!

and a BIG HUG!

to see Donna's blogs

here are her links

An enchanting Cottage 

A painted Journey

from these links you can find her etsy shop

she is quiet, kind, a lover of animals and humble.

 her art, has love, God  and the beauty of life in it! 

(we are headed back to Montana to bring the rest of our thing's back)

I hope everyone has a wonderful

God filled week :)