Carla has finished her transplanting of her tomatoes; all 12 varieties totaling 280 plants.  She had to purchase another variety from BiMart as she didn’t have the seeds for the plant.

Except for a couple varieties a year she tries as an experiment, she pretty well knows which ones she wants and what does well in her garden. 

Always the smaller ones, like cherry tomatoes, that you can just pop in your mouth, the larger varieties that are perfect for my bacon and tomato sandwiches and those that are better for salsa and sauce.

I was looking out the window this morning at where she had planted her Dahlias.  She takes a piece of plastic, puts a hole in it, writes the name of the Dahlia and then attaches it to some small tomato cages that allow the Dahlia to grow straighter.

The names of most Dahlias are people names – family names of the person who developed that particular kind.

A number of years ago, when we were down on 12^th St. She would plant them next to the fence.  One day she was outside working around them when the paper boy walked by; he asked her what all the names were for – indicating he thought it might be people buried.

She said, those are the paper boys that didn’t get my paper to me on time.  As expect the young man’s eyes got big and his reaction was one of horror.  She didn’t leave him that way as she immediately told him they were the names of Dahlias.

At one time she had over a hundred different varieties with several hundred planted.  The church had allowed her to grow them on its property – she used them for decorations every Sunday for our church and the Nazarene church that was just down the street from our house.  She also had several thousand gladiolas in that garden.

Unfortunately we had an early freeze one year and the entire garden was frozen, it didn’t heat back up for several months, the tubers and bulbs were turned to mush.  She had another garden just up the street from us at a friend’s property, it wasn’t as badly hit.  While she slowly replaced some of the varieties, we never had that number in either garden again.

Job 12:7-10 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:

⁸ Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.

⁹ Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this?

¹⁰ In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.

I read an article about the Sandcastle Worm that lives under water.  It is found along the California coast.

It is unique in as much as it can glue bits of sand, sea shells and other debris together hardening in less than a minute – to form a tube in which it lives. 

Have you ever tried to glue something that is underwater, or very wet?  It doesn’t work very well.

Yet, this little guy can do it and it has been noted by scientists.  They broke down the glue and found that they can reproduce it (or at least something similar to it) and use it on broken bones and tissue repair among other things.

It is a great break through because it allows them to help the patient heal faster.

and they shall teach thee

The miracle and wonders of God are all around us.  The more I read and see for myself the way God created the universe and all that is in it, the more in wonder I become of His divinity. 

I have no idea how He did all this; how He planned the largest and the smallest particles.  The more we see in this world the more we understand how complex it is, with new things, new discoveries by man being found almost daily.

Ever since man left the garden, he has learned how to live and how to survive by watching the world around him and seeing how animals, insects and so many other things interact in the environment they live in.

God has empowered each thing He has created with special traits and, as these scientists did, we can watch and evaluate these things and help make our world a better place.

God has endowed man with the intelligence to study, to learn and to duplicate many of His works. 

All we have to do is observe and learn and they shall teach thee.

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

And our Savior, Jesus Christ, was there.

John 1:1  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

² The same was in the beginning with God.

³ All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

While much of the things of God are beyond our comprehension, He has given ample proof as to both His existence and His right to expect us to obey and worship Him.

Later, Art :-)