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I’m a writer, poet, and nature lover.
I also enjoy expressing myself through photography.
Creation has a lot to say…
My prose and poems are a small sampling of nature’s words.
I’m a Christian that loves reading the Bible …
so you’ll find a few Scripture verses woven into this blog.
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Here’s a picture of our organic vegetable garden.
My husband, Ian, and I can sit on a nearby bench to watch it grow.
We live in a small town on .77 acre with a 1940’s character house
that creaks and groans as much as our golden year bones do.
We share our home with our three favorite people on the planet.
Our two sons and one daughter are blessings from our Heavenly Father
after having been through 12 years of infertility.
We’re a close-knit homeschool family.
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Thank you for your visit.
Blessings ~ Wendy ❀
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My faith is not shallow because I’ve been rescued from the deep.
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I can be reached at: purselanestudio@gmail.com
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It’s always a joy to read your spiritually uplifting words, Wendy, and to keep in touch.
Thank you, Mary! I find your posts beautiful and calming. I enjoy my visits to your blog! Hugs!
Blessings dear friend ~ Wendy xo
Love ur blog! Thanks for stopping by today. I’ll be back to read more of your posts. Connie
Thank you, Connie! I’ll be back to visit yours too.
Blessings new friend ~ Wendy 🙂
I’m sensing a kindred spirit here! 🙂
That’s what I thought when I was at your blog… I love meeting a new sister in Christ!
Blessings new friend ~ Wendy xo
Nominated you for an award before I noticed you were not accepting nominations. It’s the thought that counts, though. I love your blog. It is peaceful, uplifting. Keep up the good work. God bless. Connie
Thank you, Connie, for thinking of me. I will be doing a thank you post for nominations even though I don’t participate in awards anymore. It’s my way of letting my friends know about each other. 🙂
Blessings dear new friend ~ Wendy xo
Bless you! Your blog made my heart smile today. Thank you.
As yours did mine! 🙂
Blessings new friend ~ Wendy xo
Hello, I have nominated you for the Versatile Blogger Award
Please accept & oblige.
http://thoughtsummary.wordpress.com/2013/02/21/the-versatile-blogger-award/.
Regards
Thank you for the compliment of nominating me. I do not participate in awards anymore – but I occasionally publish a thank you post for any that I receive. Congratulations on your award!
Blessings dear friend ~ Wendy 🙂
that’s a very noble thing you do wendy . take care and thank you for the wishes..
take care & regards
Sis Wendy,
In January, the Lord placed it on my heart to start a new blog post each month entitled “Share the Love”, where I will feature one of the blogs that I follow, and I am trusting Him to show me the blogs that HE wants me to feature each month. Last night, as I read your Call to Prayer, He spoke to my heart and told me to feature your blog on March 1. You don’t have to do anything, and this is not an award. I’m just walking in obedience to God’s Holy Spirit.
In fact, the only thing I need you to share with me is which of all the posts you’ve written is your favorite. 🙂 I will also be highlighting my favorite posts as well. So that the news doesn’t leak before March 1, please send me a link to your favorite post at:
cshowers@live.com
I’m so excited about this. Last month, the Lord led me to “Share the Love” with Maria Tatham, of A Christian Imagination. And to be honest with you, with all of the recent turmoil that has gone on in my life this month, I wasn’t even sure if I would be up to writing “Share the Love” or anything else, but God had other plans, as He inspired me to highlight your blog. 😀 I so love how the Lord works in our lives! I look forward to hearing from you, my beloved sister in the Lord, and I also look forward to “Sharing the Love” with you this Friday, March 1.
Much love and Many blessings to you,
Cheryl
Wow! Thank you, Cheryl, for wanting to share my latest post. It was a labor of love and not without oppression as I know that the enemy prefers silence and secrecy regarding the vulnerable in our society.
Blessings dear friend and sis in Him ~ Wendy xo
Of all the posts you’ve written for your blog, which is your favorite, so I can include it too? Please let me know as soon as possible. Thanks and much love to you, Wendy!
Love,
Cheryl
I have sent it to your e-mail, Cheryl. Let me know if it got there okay. My e-mail is purselanestudio@gmail.com
Blessings ~ Wendy xo
Hi Wendy! I’m so glad you enjoyed my poem “Blessings of a New Day”…thank you for the “like”. It fills my heart with joy knowing that my poetry touches others. Also, I’ve read your blog, and love your flower and nature photos, along with your poetry. I’ll be following, and look forward to your future posts : )
Hi Teresa! Thank you for your encouragement! I was so excited to find your blog. Whenever I find another Christian poet who also posts pictures I feel like I’ve found a kindred spirit. I will be following your poetry too.
Blessings dear new friend ~ Wendy xo
Hello fellow Canadian. Your site has a soothing color, The colour what grows on Mother Earth. Blessings.
It is so nice to meet another Canadian! Glad to meet you! Thank you for visiting my garden. You are welcome here anytime.
Blessings dear new friend ~ Wendy 🙂
I have come to love the bench where you can stop to gather your thoughts, watch the vegetables grow.
Thank you for stopping by, Charlie. Nice to meet you!
Blessings new friend ~ Wendy 🙂
Dear Wendy: thanks for starting following my blog! Very encouraging!
I am really glad to meet you, Tabea! Your blog is cheery in appearance and rich in substance. Nice work!
Blessings dear new friend ~ Wendy 🙂
Oh, thanks so much Wendy for your nice words. This really encourages me a lot! THANKS!
Hello Wendy!!! Thanks for your visit. I enjoy your blog very much and I am following you, and I hope I get a follow back from you too 🙂
Yes, definitely, Daniella! Thank you!
Blessings dear new friend ~ Wendy xo
I am so glad you found me so I could find you. I really enjoyed your posts I visited and do believe you accomplished your purpose. Your posts created a gentle on my soul feeling and a rejoicing for all that is beautiful in creation. The only thing I missed was a lemonade as I was sitting on your bench listening to your garden grow. 🙂
Thank you, Pat, for your ever so kind words. I really enjoyed my visit to your blog and will be back.
I like your blog Wendy ♥
Thank you, Jean-Paul! 🙂
This is beautiful Wendy!
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Thank you, Seyi! 🙂
Great garden, Wendy! My wife would be jealous. She finally has a garden. Every year, for the 28 years we’ve been married, she’s wanted a garden. I finally contacted some friends and had them build her one – she loves it, picks vegetables for a salad every night.
Hope you’re enjoying your break, but hurry back.
What a dear husband you are to have a garden made for your wife. Blessings to you, Bill, and your lovely family.
I am working on a post for Friday. 🙂
Thanks for the follow on my Images blog…blessings on your new site.
Thank you, Sue. I enjoy your pictures and prose.
Thanks for the follow Wendy. Your pictures make me wistful for our country cottage and 1/2 acre in England. I’ve put a slide show on my About page. We sold 8 years ago and have been wandering ever since. I’m definitely ready for a house and garden again!
I noticed how lovely your old place was in those pictures. We moved from acreage to town just over three years ago, and it was painful. But we were blessed to move to this .77 acre full of character and gardens. I hope and wish the same for you to find a home sweet home that fits you both well.
Thanks so much. We just need to decide what country we are going to live in now.
Try google to look up the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island. We have ocean, rivers, lakes, valley, mountains and mild weather. 🙂 I think anyplace can be home if you are with the one you love. Best wishes in your home search.
It looks beautiful. Will bear it in mind. Thanks!
Hey, I just nominated you for the Liebster Award!! I love your blog and hope that this brings you great encouragement. This has been a fun experience for me to learn about the blogger who nominated me and I hope you will accept so I can learn more about you.
http://wfbcmediacenter.wordpress.com/2013/08/24/weve-been-nominated-for-the-liebster-award-yippee/
Thank you so much for the honor; however, I no longer participate in awards.
Thanks again ~ Wendy
That’s fine, I completely understand. Thanks for letting me know.
Thank you for visiting my blog today! I look forward to seeing many more of your beautiful nature photography and inspirations for my own garden. I will also hop over to your devotional blog now. Thanks for sharing!
Sarah, I am so glad that you found my blog so that I could find yours! 🙂 I follow a lot of blogs so I hope I don’t miss catching your poems. 🙂
Blessings ~ Wendy
Now I am following three of your blogs. Your photography is breathtaking, and your poetry so inspiring! Thank you for sharing.
Thankfully, they each are posted just once per week, so you won’t quickly tire of my writing… 😉
Great! I need to form a schedule too…your blogs got me thinking about that. Then I won’t be so overwhelmed with work, and readers can know what to expect.
Have just nominated you for The Sunshine award – coz I love your blog! See details: http://francesgabriel75.wordpress.com/2013/08/29/ive-been-nominated-the-sunshine-award/
Thank you, Frances Gabriel for your kind words and nomination. Congratulations on your award! I no longer participate in awards; however, I appreciate the thoughtful gesture.
Blessings ~ Wendy
Nice website!
Thank you, Andre! 🙂 I like your blog too.
Thanks!
Hi Wendy. I just want to say thank you for liking my poem of praise on Mind’s Seat. Means a lot. God bless! 🙂
You are so welcome, Sheela! Thank you for your visit. 🙂
Thank you for following my blog! And wow, I really enjoy yours! I love the idea of combining photography with poetry.
Thank you! Photography and poetry are my favorite blogs to read. 🙂
To update you, I didn’t realize that I had my links set up incorrectly- now when you click on my username it takes you to my photography blog (which I had originally intended, oops). Yay for being new to blogging. 🙂
Hello Wendy, thank you for visiting, and the like on my blog. Peace and blessings!
How kind of you, Vera, to visit me back! 🙂 Nice to meet you!
It is a pleasure to meet you also. I hope to see you soon. I make it a point to visit, and revisit. Have a wonderful day. 🙂
Thanks for liking my post! I am looking forward to reading your blog! And I have to share this because of “green light lady”… I live in Forest County, PA and we’re the only county in the State without a traffic light!
Thank you, Janet! I guess you could say that you live where the light is always green. 🙂 It is nice to meet you and discover your blog.
Thank you, Janet! 🙂
Beautiful garden! Thank you for visiting my blog I look forward to reading yours. Namaste, mary
Thank you for visiting, Mary! Gardens are my favorite place, besides the woods, to visit.
Thank you for visiting my blog and following – your blog is a wonderful surprise and looking forward to browsing!
Mary, thank you for returning my visit. I love your paintings! Lately I have become as interested in drawing as I am in photography. I’ve noticed that enjoying others art inspires ones own creativity too. 🙂
I’d love to add an apple to your bowl. First thanks for visiting my site again. I just checked out some of your posts and found them all as lovely as the ones I’d already seen. Blessings, Natalie
Natalie, I am smitten with your blog. You show us both creation and the Creator splendidly! I’ll be back – I hope you won’t tire of me. 🙂
Blessings ~ Wendy
Oh, I would never tire of you. Come as often as you like. I’d love to be notified of your new posts as well so I can visit you as well. I believe there are no accidents when it comes to people we meet. The Lord has His hands in all such meetings. Have a great week, Wendy. Blessings, Natalie
Thanks for stopping by, Wendy. Your blog and photos are beautiful.
Thank you, Jill! I’m enjoying your beautiful decorating ideas on your blog. 🙂
Just letting you know that I have nominated you for the Liebster Award. More information on my blog post “Of course I accept the award”
Lucinda, thank you for thinking of me and this blog! Congratulations on your award. 🙂 I no longer participate in awards; however, I am honored that you nominated me.
I am so glad I stopped by and read here. It is a refreshing blog. I like to work outside in my yard, too and am inspired there. It was so nice to see your garden.
Thank you for visiting my garden. I’ve been digging up my potatoes this week… 🙂
I love the organic garden, there really is no better way to regroup and unwind than spending time with nature. Thank you so much for the follow on Kerri Chronicles, I look forward to getting to know you.
Thank you, Kerri! I am a stay at home mom who really appreciated that affirming post about mothering. Growing young people is even more rewarding than gardening. 🙂
Blessings ~ Wendy
hahaha yes it is! I love it “Growing young people”. How funny!
Thank you so much for dropping by wePoets, it’s much appreciated.
Thank you for the return visit! 🙂
My pleasure 🙂
Beautiful photography… and ever so much pleasure to read words that nourish the soul. ~Sue
Thank you, Susan! I really enjoyed seeing your paintings today. At first glance I thought ‘Pod Flowers’ was a photograph. I’ve been dabbling with watercolor pencils lately, after being so inspired by art I see on blogs.
Blessings ~ Wendy
Thanks kindly for the “likes” for my blog. I have enjoyed looking through your posts as well and shall return! Best regards.
Thank you, also, for your visit, Cynthia! 🙂 Nice to meet you.
What a beautiful garden you have 🙂
Thank you, Paula! Nice to meet you.
Hi,
I love the way you combine uplifting words with deep spirituality and the photos are really beautiful.
Thank you, Limbiley. I love both the Creator and his creation.
Hello! I wanted to let you know that I have nominated you for several Awards. Congratulations! If you are an Award Free Blog, please simply accept my appreciation of the inspiration you share and the support you have shown me. Should you choose to accept the awards, the criteria and acceptance info can be found here: http://booknvolume.com/2013/11/10/ta-in-other-words/
Thank you for the honor, Morgan. Congratulations on your awards; even though I don’t participate in them I appreciate your kindness.
You are welcome. 🙂
I have nominated you for the Versatile Blogger Award. Thank you for your craft and the inspiration it brings me.
Click here for VBA information
Thank you, Rita, for the nomination, and congratulations on your award. I no longer participate in awards; I appreciate your kindness in thinking of my blog.
Thanks for often visiting my blog and liking my posts Wendy. I am now following you. Blessings to your day! Leona
Thank you, Leona; welcome aboard! Blessings to you too.
I like your blog, and thank you for following mine! I really appreciate it. 🙂
Thank you, Grace, for your kind words. I hope you’ll remind me to visit if I lose track of your blog, since I follow so many now. 🙂 It is nice to meet you.
I have nominated you for a Sunshine Award Wendy! You can choose to follow the rules for it if you wish! Just follow the link below! Your blog has always been wonderful and I thank you for supporting my blog!
http://photobycraig.wordpress.com/2013/11/23/sunshine-award/
Thank you so much for honoring me with a nomination. Congratulations on your award, Craig! Your pictures are always of such high quality since you take your time to get them right. I don’t participate in awards any longer but I always appreciate the encouragement.
I have nominated you for the Most Influential Blogger Award. Please know that You Inspire me, whether or not you choose to accept and pay forward the award. Should you feel inclined to do so, however, the how and why info can be found here: http://booknvolume.com/2013/11/24/the-quill/
Thank you, Morgan! I don’t participate in awards any longer, but I appreciate your kindness towards me. I really enjoy your poetry.
Most Welcome 🙂
Blessings~
You are so insp-iring…..I have nominated you for an award…it is on my blog waiting for you. You truly deserve it. I’ll let it be a surprise and not tell you for what. Thanks for your beautiful work
Thank you so much for your kind words. Christmas Blessings.
What a delectable blog. Love it…
May the Lord continue to bless you and keep you.
Thank you! I like your blog too; nice to meet you. 🙂