I love lighthouses almost as much as I love rocks! Cape Hatteras in North Carolina is on my bucket list of lighthouses to visit. So in the meantime, I made my own version. Ironically, the shell and stones are from the Pacific Ocean!



I love lighthouses almost as much as I love rocks! Cape Hatteras in North Carolina is on my bucket list of lighthouses to visit. So in the meantime, I made my own version. Ironically, the shell and stones are from the Pacific Ocean!



Matthew 10:29 NIV Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Father’s care. My brother, his wife, my sister, and I took our Dad on a genealogy road trip. Traveling with your adult siblings might not be on everyone’s bucket list, but we…
Mt. Rushmore National Memorial, Keystone, SD 2 Corinthians 3:17 NIV Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. What a priviledge it is to live in a country that asks you to vote, not tells you how and who to vote for! We celebrate July 4,…
Matthew 13:30 ICB Let the weeds and the wheat grow together until the harvest time. At harvest time I will tell the workers this: First gather the weeds and tie them together to be burned. Then gather the wheat and bring it to my barn. In the book, that was Yesterday, A History of Sisters,…
I can sniff out a lighthouse like a pig finds truffles, and my most accommodating husband takes me to them! This piece was inspired by a fun, but foggy trip to Cape Disappointment State Park, WA. Despite the park’s name, North Head Lighthouse did not disappoint!
Yaquina Head Lighthouse, OR 1 John 5:11-12 MSG God gave us eternal life; the life is in his Son. So, whoever has the Son, has life; whoever rejects the Son, rejects life. In the immortal words of the sage theologians, The Bangles…. Say my name Sun shines through the rain A whole life so lonely And…
Tumalo Community Church, Tumalo, OR Psalm 122:1 NLT “Let us go to the house of the Lord.” Founded in 1904, the town of Tumalo, OR was first called Laidlaw by self-professed founder, A.W. Laidlaw. The industrious citizens began the first church in 1905 with a church building being dedicated in 1907. Unfortunately, Mr. Laidlaw was…