Scripture and a Snapshot - He Promises Peace

Will you not revive us again,

that your people may rejoice in you?

Show us your unfailing love, LORD,

and grant us your salvation.

I will listen to what God the LORD says;

he promises peace to his people, his faithful servants -

but let them not return to folly.

Surely his salvation is near those who fear him,

that his glory may dwell in our land.

Love and faithfulness meet together;

righteousness and peace kiss each other.

Faithfulness springs forth from the earth,

and righteousness looks down from heaven.

The LORD will indeed give what is good,

and our land will yield its harvest.

~Psalm 85:6-12~

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Share Four Somethings - August 2019

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August was full of so much to love and many things to learn! We kept very busy, mostly with vacations and preparing for the new school year to come. Time to look back and pick out Something Loved, Something Said, Something Learned, and Something Read to share today.

Something Loved

Vacation time that included family time and many beautiful sights and experiences.

We went to a church camp for a weekend and did a concert of worship music. We visited our son and his family and had fun with our granddaughter. We visited conservatories and gardens and an art museum. We were able to take friends of Kennady's with us to a couple of those conservatory experiences - it was her Summer of Kennady vacation, after all!

At Franklin Park Conservatory, Columbus, Ohio

At Duquesne Incline, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

At Rawlings Conservatory, Baltimore, Maryland

Something Said

Knowing a person is like music, what attracts us to them is their melody, and as we get to know who they are, we learn their lyrics.  ~Unknown

Something Learned

I actually learned quite a bit about plants, as you might imagine! I especially enjoyed the orchid houses. The Baltimore Museum of Art was an educational experience as well. My husband and I were both very interested in the mosaic sections from Antioch and the methods used to excavate these large pieces that are a couple thousand years old, and how they were restored and transported.

Something Read

I completed four books in August, but only three of the reviews are up so far. You can see more about my reading in my Monthly Bookshelf Review for August 2019.

Unshakeable: A Story of Unwavering Faith and Conviction by Elizabeth Wiens
An Artless Demise (A Lady Darby Mystery) by Anna Lee Huber
The Yellow Lantern: True Colors: Historical Stories of American Crime by Angie Dicken
Britfield & the Lost Crown by C.R. Stewart (review coming!)



   

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Wordless Wednesday - Van Gogh In Bloom

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The second leg of our Conservatory tour vacation took us to Pittsburgh and the Phipps Conservatory. The summer flower exhibit is Van Gogh in Bloom, which features the scenes in several of Van Gogh's paintings brought to life using flowers, grasses, trees, and other landscape elements.

   

See all the pictures and a few more words on my Homeschool Coffee Break post: A Conservatory Tour PhotoJournal - Phipps Conservatory

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Monthly Bookshelf Review - August 2019

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I see stuff about beach reads and people doing extra reading in the summer, but it rarely works that way for me. It's been a challenge to find time to devote to reading over the past month or so. Coming up in the new school year I'll be teaching a Literature class in our co-op, so I have a feeling I'll face even more challenges in keeping up with my reading list!

August's Books Completed and Reviewed

Unshakeable: A Story of Unwavering Faith and Conviction by Elizabeth Wiens - I reviewed this novel for The Old Schoolhouse website. It's a novel about a small group of families that continue to homeschool even after the provincial government makes it illegal to do so.  (Read my full review HERE)




An Artless Demise (A Lady Darby Mystery) by Anna Lee Huber - Kiera and Gage race to find out who is murdering young society men and making it look like the work of resurrectionists. (Read my full review HERE)




The Yellow Lantern: True Colors: Historical Stories of American Crime by Angie Dicken - A young woman is forced to act as a spy and watchman for grave robbers and feels trapped into choosing between loyalty to her father or to the manager of the cotton mill where she works. (Read my full review HERE)

During August I started reading:

A Study In Scarlet Women (The Lady Sherlock Series) by Sherry Thomas - Charlotte Holmes searches for the true criminals after she and her family fall under suspicion.




Britfield & the Lost Crown by C.R. Stewart - two orphans, Tom and Sarah, escape from an awful orphanage on an epic race across England to find out whether Tom's family is still alive.

During August I shelved:

The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country by Helen Russell - Trying to decide whether I'll pick this back up. It's interesting, but not as much as I expected, and I just have so many other things I need to read.

Coming Up in September!

Immanuel Labor: God's Presence in Our Profession by Russell E. Gehrlein
The Butterfly Recluse by Therese Heckencamp
Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

     

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