All Things Bright and Beautiful, All Creatures Great and Small...

I haven't written in almost a week! O my life!

where have I BEEN?

Anyway, I took my 11 year old sister and 3 year old brother to the zoo yesterday, and I had to laugh.

This was my little brother's first time to the zoo so of course we had to do and see EVERYTHING so we fed the giraffe in the picture (her name is Angel) and walked around for four hours.

They had a grand time.

However, I didn't tell them that when I was their age (oh great, now I sound old) and/or the last time I was there, there was about twice the amount of animals that there are now. Some critters weren't even there anymore, including some of my favorites (tigers).

Though this zoo has been through some...rough times, I realized when I got home that I had a unique experience. But I will explain that in a moment.

So I live out in the country, and at night in the summer there are all sorts of animals that come out, we have Yard Beavers (or ground hogs/woodchuck), coyotes, some kind of fox (I think red), deer (loads and loads of them) rabbits, chipmunks, squirrels, and who knows how many insects, newts, frogs, and other critters that I can't even think of the category they fall into. In other words, I have my own zoo in my backyard.

I went walking at twilight, sat in my secret place, and I just was still. I saw countless lighting bugs, a fox, several chipmunks, a large batch of rabbits (about 9) and a ground hog. And I thought about all of the animals I had seen in the zoo, and I thought of the lyric "all things bright and beautiful, All Creatures great and small, all things wise and wonderful, the Lord God made them all."

As I sat there thinking about the animals I had seen at the zoo, and in my yard, I pondered the fact that each of these animals was also knit together with fascination ;) . And I realized how blessed we are that we have God that lovingly shaped all of these amazing animals then each of us.

So I have nothing else to currently say on the subject, so I will be back soon with another post.

Katydid out