Blue Monday-Iowa and Florida

It has been awhile since I have participated in

Blue Monday.

But today I have some pictures to show you from

our recent trip.

Besides the ones I have already posted in previous posts

both on this blog and on my craft blog.

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Thank you to Sally at Smiling Sally

for hosting this every week.

When you get a chance, visit others

who are posting for Blue Monday.

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First up is pictures from the Iowa portion of

our trip. That is where our daughter lives so

of course we had to visit her there.

On the Sunday we were there,

we visited her church.

It was a gorgeous day which

provided with me with gorgeous

BLUE skies.

This is a view of the old sanctuary.

I just love the colors here against the BLUE sky.

Lot of BLUE in this stained glass window.
This used to be behind the altar in the old sanctuary
and it was backlit.
Now in the new sanctuary a window is behind
so it is lit up naturally with the sunlight
on a gorgeous sunny day.
A shade is down part way at the top.
The sun was probably shining on the altar too much that morning.
This is located at the back of the church.

Here is an outside view of the new sanctuary.
That long window there is where the stained glass window
is located. The I showed you in the previous picture.

These windows also used to be in the old sanctuary.
Now they are placed along the side windows which face south.
Here is a close up of one of the windows.

Here is another view of the outside of the new sanctuary.

Those windows along the wall there are the ones

you could see in the previous picture.

Isn't the sky gorgeous?

It was supposed to rain while we were there

and instead we got this beautiful weather.

Actually it did rain the next day.

There is a book store at this church and

I bought this cross. It is painted on a rock

from the shores of Lake Superior.

This is the back side of the necklace.

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Ok, now some more pictures from

the Florida portion of our trip.

Our daughter went with us

to visit our son and his family.

It was wonderful to be with

both of my kids, daughter-in-love

and my precious granddaughter.

Our little granddaughter goes to gymnastics.

This is all of us watching her from the balcony.

BLUE shirt, BLUE mats.

Another picture of them.

Daughter-in-love is taking pictures too.

She has some pictures posted here on her blog.

Helmi was along to watch also.

That is my daughter's hand holding on to her to make sure she does

not fall off the ledge there.

Shaylee is bouncing around in there somewhere.

Lots of BLUE at a gymnastics place.

Best of all, Shaylee wore a cute

BLUE leotard with BLUE ribbons in her hair.

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Happy BLUE Monday to you!

~Linnea~