Nonnie's Observations

I added the arrow to this image to point out the exact shrine piece made by Hettienne. Hettienne has an Etsy shop . Visit there if you have a special devotion to Mary. She is a talented artist. An exquisite sacred shrine honoring the faith of our Blessed Mother Mary now graces my home altar thanks to the gifted hands of Hettienne at "Her Grace" found here .  Exquisite Virgin, faith-filled, divine Madonna guide my errant heart. help your heart shine by visiting here linked to Weekly Top Shot here

Care to deduce where? Which business has lingerie in its front windows? I wager that most of you, male and female, have inferred V's Secrets ! jog over to Weekend Reflections for more who love playing on James' playground!

Morning after storm, snow laden everywhere viewed, frosty lovely sight. Sky covered with clouds, dark, ominous, bringing snow, unsafe to be out. seek Himmelsk for other sky images

middle son's tractor, needed for mowing, planting enormous gardens water storage sits  in middle son's, wife's garden... for potential droughts. visit others' rural pics at Madge's blog

After I had imbibed on the words  deliciously served by CJ on his blog Rambles from My Chair (found here ), I was struck with the urgent need to possess my own Concise Oxford Dictionary ! Now to see if I could afford to own this treasure. Off I go to my favorite site Amazon.com . There I am pleased as punch to find it at a reasonable price. I click on "Buy now with one click", record it in my check register...then store the memory who-knows-where in the land of my brain. Two days later while my granddaughter and her dumpling are visiting, we hear someone at the door, but no one enters. I proceed to open the front door and see a package. Said visitor asks me, "What is it, Grams?" I reply that I don't remember what I ordered. I rush the mystery package over to the counter so that I can rip it open. When I spy my new treasure, I blurt out, "Oh, it's here!" Granddaughter sighs, "I don't know anybody else who would be so excited at getting...

Jesus, listening at the Passover repast, now known as our Mass. sepia tone Jesus with his friends, celebrating Passover the night ere his death. others' macros here

  Guitar of a friend who leads the women in song, Women at the Well. other bloggers' macros at Macro Monday edited with PicMonkey's weaving A bit about Women at the Well- It is a parish women's spiritual group at St. Mary Church,  my home parish. SOOC capture

Word List for Wordle 98: blue   blessed   deserves   first   gasps   instant    slap   snare   dust   unbalance   ride   wings My Story: My blessed first -born son… in an instant , his heart  clutches tightly to mine. His father waits patiently for son’s blue eyes to transform to the hue of his brown eyes. (They never did; he is our only  blue-eyed child.) When I walk downtown,  my babe swaddled in his stroller, a motherly figure approaches  and gasps  at his beauty,  then asks, “What is her name?” I reply only with his male surname,  having all logic caught in the snare of a brain-freeze. Then out of her mouth  comes this, insensitive to me, riposte, “But, he’s too pretty for a boy!” This is the very first time that this happens.  The surprise of her thoughtlessness  is a slap to my face and throws me into an unbalance...