Scenes From the Texas I Love

It is spring time in Texas!

Every Year I Make Special Easter Baskets!

I Have Friends Back Home in Texas Who are So Interesting

Since it is Easter time, I am thinking of the little rabbits back home in Texas at the ranch, and how sweet it was each Spring to watch the new baby bunnies be born.  They can be found in the rabbit hutch in the corner in the hay.  Mom doesn't come out of the hutch very much, even when the rabbit chow is passed out, and the Daddy Rabbit becomes very protective!

Then there is another little friend back home... Rocket the miniature goat...  

She is such a clown, and has so much personality.

Here she is when she was just a baby...

She grew up!

She loves being out of her pen, but gets into mischief, and I would feel bad because she would get lonely when she had to be put in the pen.  (Coyotes wanting her for supper was another reason for her confinement to the pen.)  So I began trying to introduce little animals into the pen for her to play with, and to keep her company...  At first she wasn't sure how to be a friend to rabbits...

There Is a Beautiful Tiny Red Succulent...

As we were making our way up to Colonge we stopped at the ruins of an old castle which had a restaurant built into the side of it.  It also had a small souvenir shop and you could climb to the top of one of the towers which we did.  There was a beautiful tiny red succulent, and it anyone can tell me the name of it, I would really like to know.  I took several photos of it.  It was so jewel like and I would like to acquire some for my garden.

 

So tell me my German friends, what is this little beauty?

The Dom at Colonge

 Views From the Top

Children at the Dom

Architecture Can Be Beautiful Art

Architecture can be art...

 

We Visited the Dom at Colonge

We had the most wonderful time at the Dom in Colonge.

Chance went with us, but had to stay at the hotel while we toured the Cathedral.  What a beautiful place Colonge is!  We had the best food I have had in Germany since arriving, in a little cafe near where we stayed.  When we first went in all the tables had reserved signs on them.  However they were for a later hour so we were able to eat there.  The price was remarkably low for such a quality meal so beautifully presented.  The cream brûlée was fabulous!  More tomorrow of the history of this magnificent place!

Last Easter I Published This Post From the Ranch

This year we will be in Germany, and I am busy decorating the house for Easter here in Germany.  I will miss my home in Texas, but I am really getting excited about the garden and decorating our Germany home.  So I invite you for a little mini tour of back home while I make preparations here in Germany.  I will soon publish pictures of our home as I arrange it for Easter here in Germany.   Enjoy last year's post while I work on this year's post!

I love Christmas, it is about the birth of our Lord, but Easter is about the death of our Lord and his resurrection to life again!  Spring is my favorite season of the year too.  When Spring arrives, the earth gives birth again to all its' treasures, everything becomes new!  New life comes from the ground, from the domestic animals at the ranch, and from the wildlife at the ranch.  The Spring flowers are everywhere now at the ranch, but the house plants are just as happy to see Spring.

When I was caring for the plants this morning, I noticed that they are doing so well, and I decided to decorate them for Easter.  I really like the results!  I just placed a little ceramic rabbit in one of the large plants, and plastic Easter eggs in all shades and hues in all of the plants.  Real eggs are full of life and when left with their mother, 
they soon reveal new life, another 
creature from the Creator.


This little grouping of plants is very happy near the big double doors which are the main entrance to our home.  They add color, texture,  and design elements, and as you can tell, I do not ascribe to the minimalist design  which is so popular now.  I rather like my eye to be presented with multiple objects of different textures, colors, and composition.  I want visitors to my home to be compelled to study all that is there, and to understand me better after doing so.

The term "minimalist" generally refers to a design style applied to anything which reflects being spare or stripped down to only its essentials.  In the written or spoken self expression which I engage in, I tend to carefully choose my words, but always generously use enough to accurately communicate.  The same goes with my own, very unique, and "I love to ignore what is trending," decorating style.  I decorate our home with what we love, what speaks of who we are, and significantly important, things which are not expensive.  There are so many other resources which should receive the benefit of our financial resources.  Those things always deal with loving people.