Yesterday evening a friend treated me to a visit to Southeast Botanical Garden Illuminations. The lights at the park have earned it #2 in a nationwide review. Awed by the colored designs, laser shows, and timed programs, I wondered what the #1 entry was like.
Because we went after dark, I figured we wouldn't be seeing the baby animals, but while we were walking on our path, I heard the cry of water fowl and whipped my head around in the direction of the pond where the sound came from. Sure enough, I could barely make out the BLACK bird's WHITE face shield and bill!
And later in the walk, God showed me two waterfowl flying over the bridge to their nesting area in the reeds.
My sister Joyce and my friend were busy taking photographs of things in front of their cameras and could have no idea of the things that God brought before my eyes...
WAIT! I spotted a lone, beautiful white bird on the bridge just on the other side of them and decided to take a picture of it before it saw us coming and was scared away. But when my friend saw it too and walked toward it, I realized it's used to human beings, because it didn't fly away!
Oh--I spotted the tiny "Lantern Hibiscus"--my friend told me it's called that because it hangs (unlike the popular bloom which sits on top of the branch and smiles up at you.) I know. I was invited to see Illumination, and I take pictures of a flower that hangs upside down. Some of us get excited about the strangest things.
This little lantern of mine, I'm gonna let it shine...maybe Jesus will hold me before His eyes too altho' I don't win special awards or anything.
