OUR FLAG - Part 3

"The very colors have a language which was officially recognized by our fathers. White is for purity, red for valor, blue for justice; and all together-bunting, stripes, stars, and colors, blazing in the sky-make the flag of our country to be cherished by all our hearts, to be upheld by all our hands." (Charles Sumner)  I love the flag of the United States of America! LONG MAY SHE WAVE!!

OUR FLAG - Part 2

"It is a piece of bunting lifted in the air; but it speaks sublimely, and every part has a voice. Its stripes of alternate red and white proclaim the original union of thirteen states to maintain the Declaration of Independence. Its stars of white on a field of blue, proclaim that union of states constituting our national constellation, which receives a new star with every new state. The two together signify union past and present." (Charles Sumner)

ROSE RED BLUSHES

(photo by Susanna Bayer)

"Tis the last rose of summer left blooming alone

All her lovely companions are faded and gone

No flower of her kindred, no rosebud is nigh

To reflect back her blushes and give sigh for sigh."

RED RAMBLINGS. . .

(Photo collage by Sharon Wilhite)

RED!  Red is the color of passion, energy, redemption, and love.  Wearing red always seemed to give me energy and confidence when tired or nervous during my college days.  From my childhood on I wanted a red winter coat to brighten up a long winter - I'm still waiting.  Red cars are always a fascination to men young and old - and especially to the highway patrol!  Red is the color of life continually running through us.  It is the color of new life spilled for us by Christ on the cross.  RED!

THE BEST BERRY!

(photo by Sharon Wilhite)

"Doubtless God could have made a better berry (than the strawberry) but doubtless God never did."

-William Allen Butler

ONE RED LEAF

(Photo by Sharon Wilhite)

"The one RED leaf, the last of its clan,

That dances as often as dance it can,

Hanging so light, and hanging so high,

On the topmost twig that looks up to the sky."

(Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

THOUGH THEY BE RED...

(Photo by Sharon Wilhite)

"Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD, though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow, though they be RED like crimson, they shall be as wool."  Isaiah 1:18

RED FOR LOVE TRIUMPHANT

(Photo by Sharon Wilhite)

"The rose is a flower of love.  The world has acclaimed it for centuries.  Pink roses are for love hopeful and expectant.  White roses are for love dead or forsaken, but the RED roses, ah the red roses are for love triumphant."  -Anon.