ROSE COTTAGE BLESSINGS
Spiritual Notes from the Lake
BY COLLEEN MARIE LASKY
PUBLISHED WORKS
In addition to the Rose Cottage blog, I have also embarked on a freelance magazine writing career. I’m posting a few of those articles below for you to enjoy. May this day find you blessed!
Gregarious Geese
Published in Creation Illustrated Magazine, Spring 2024, Vol 31, No 1
With camera in hand to capture some of nature’s wonders, I encountered Canada goslings as they swam between their parents on a small northern Michigan lake surrounded by a splash of bold spring colors. The following autumn, I came upon fully grown geese on the same lake. I confess that I looked right past them, seeking something rare to photograph like the American Pipit I spotted earlier or the great blue heron that frequents the shoreline.
Guardians of the Garden
Published in Creation Illustrated, Winter 2022, Vol.28 No. 4
The mushrooms that arrived in my vegetable garden arrived as surprising visitors. I did not plant them. They just sprang up as gray, miniature umbrellas, showing off razor thin lines that glistened in the sun like fine silver. I knelt in the morning dew, curiously examining them and wondering what they were called.
Flag Cake Facts
Published in Focus on the Family Magazine in the June / July 2022 Edition
To help children understand the symbolism of the American flag, we decorated a 9-by-13-inch cake together.
Fascinating Fox Squirrels
Published in Creation Illustrated, Fall 2024, Vol 31, No. 3
Behind our home the rays of warm, autumn sunshine lighted up clusters of aging northern red oak trees with their leafy bouquets of yellow and orange. Darting about wildly among the branches of vibrant foliage, two juvenile eastern fox squirrels competed for my attention.