Flowers

Even though we've had cold weather and a few frosts, the flowers in our garden are still beautiful.

Fall in Tennessee

The autumn colors are beautiful this year!

This is our front side yard from the woods.

Stuart likes the cool weather.

Our huge oak tree by the garden

Our neighbor's cows

Dogwood berries

The view from our dining room window

The rest of the pictures were taken at Shiloh Park on Saturday.

"O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms. For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods. In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also. The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land. O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker."

~ Psalm 95:1-6

Our Trip to Niagara Falls, Part 3

Our last day in Canada we toured the city of Niagara on the Lake, about 20 minutes from the falls. It is a quaint little town full of old-fashioned shops.

This man was making mint-chocolate chip fudge on a marble counter.

Mr. Berry bought some fudge to share!

The autumn leaves were just gorgeous! We had never seen so many different and vibrant colors!

In this part of Canada there are hundreds of acres of vineyards and orchards. We stopped at a vineyard that had recently been harvested.

Mr. Berry picked a few bunches of grapes that had been left ... ... which we enjoyed!

The Illumination of the Falls

After dark, lights are turned on the falls so that they can still be seen. The lights change from white to a rainbow of colors.

The city of Niagara at night

Mr. Berry and Mrs. Berry, Mr. and Mrs. Holt, Mama Flo, Emily, and me on our way home

Our Trip to Niagara Falls Part 2

We spent the second day in the city of Toronto, about 2 hours from Niagara.

One of our stops was the Casa Loma Castle, which we toured. The tiny people in the photo are Emily and Mama Flo! : )

We took a one-hour cruise around the Toronto Islands in this ship, the Oriole.

This is the Toronto skyline from the ship.

The view from the upper deck Emily

Amanda

Mama Flo

A beautiful pair of swans

On the lower deck

That evening we rode the train back to Niagara.

Dinner at Betty's Restaurant

Another view of the falls ... ... and some seagulls! There were hundreds of them around the falls. Seeing Niagara Falls in person reminded me of Psalm 8.

"When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained ...

...What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.

Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:

All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!"

Today's Sermon...

is titled "The Flood".

Our Trip to Niagara Falls, Canada Part 1

Last week Emily and I (Amanda) had the very special privilege of traveling to Niagara Falls with our grandma, Mama Flo.

We traveled on a bus with a group of senior citizens and a few younger people from the area.

Mama Flo and her "seat partner" (Emily and I sat across the isle.)

Our dear friends, the Berrys, were also on the bus, as well as Mr. Berry's sister and her husband, the Holts. They are all such sweet Christian people, and we greatly enjoyed being with them!

Eating at Cracker Barrel after the first day of driving

The second day of driving! Our bus driver stopped to fill up...!!!

Arriving at the border and waiting to go through customs

In Canada! It felt very strange (and a little sad) to leave our country for the first time!

Our first glimpse of the falls in the daylight! Seeing this part of God's marvelous creation was absolutely awesome!

"A picture is worth a thousand words"...

...but seeing Niagara Falls in person is worth a thousand pictures!

Emily, Mama Flo and me in front of the Canadian Falls. It was extremely windy down near the falls!

The drop off, just a few feet from where we were standing

This was taken downstream from the falls at the "Whirlpool Rapids."

In this corner of the Niagara River the water rushes at 35 miles per hour and creates a treacherous whirlpool.Along the bank you can see some of the rock layers formed by the flood.

Some of the people in our group rode a cable car across the whirlpool!

Posing for a few pictures

That afternoon we walked down to the falls with the Berrys. It was about a ten-minute walk... downhill... from our hotel. The falls are visible in the background.

A black squirrel!

This type of squirrel is found only in the small area between Lake Ontario and Lake Erie!

The American Falls

The mist from the falls was so heavy that it felt like it was raining! We got quite wet!

Here you can see Buffalo, New York, just behind the American Falls.

On the way back to our hotel ... uphill all the way!...we stopped and rested!

That evening we had dinner up in the Skylon Tower. We rode to the top in one of the four clear elevators on the outside of the building! Our view from the top was amazing!

We ate in a revolving dining room, so our view changed during the evening! A live musician played the piano for us and played several Tennessee songs.

This picture shows the American Falls (left) and the Canadian or Horseshoe Falls (right). More pictures coming soon!!!

Today's Sermon...

...is "Gray Areas Matter" by Bro. Jeff Noblit. Having a balance is so important and Bro. Jeff shares that concept very effectively in this message.

Family Pictures

We decided to take our family picture in the soybean field behind our house this fall because the soybeans were such a pretty color.

Taking hay bales and pumpkins out to the field

Having a little fun with the pumpkins :)

Daddy and Mama

Melissa

Emily

Rebekah

Amanda

Sarah

Anna

Deborah

Jonathan

David

Stuart

The whole family

We didn't have anyone to take these pictures, so we put the camera on the tripod and set it on a timer. It's hard to get good pictures that way!

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Emily and Amanda left this morning on a trip to Niagara Falls with our grandmother. They have taken the camera with them, so we probably won't have any pictures to post this week. Be sure to check back for pictures from their trip in about a week.