The Beauty of This Earth

For the beauty of the earth,
For the glory of the skies;
For the love which from our birth,
Over and around us lies;
Lord of all, to Thee we raise
This, our hymn of grateful praise.

For the wonder of each hour,
Of the day and of the night;
Hill and vale and tree and flow'r,
Sun and moon, and stars of light;
Lord of all, to Thee we raise
This, our hymn of grateful praise.

~Folliott S. Pierpoint

* My mom is a splendid gardener. So, as you can see, I had way too much fun photographing it.  Her butterfly bush was stunning--the monarch butterflies were dancing among the flowers.  I don't know if I quite captured the grass how I wanted.  In person, it glimmered like silver in the sunlight.  
I also had some fun playing with textures. But I had to leave some pictures only slightly edited to show off their pure, natural beauty.  Like I said once before, there is beauty all around is......oh how fun it is to capture!