This week THE DAILY POST HAS ASKED US TO TRANSLATE THE WORD SPARE INTO PHOTOS.
Click the link above to see all the spare posts.
Here is my interpretation of spare:

Brother can you spare a dime?

Not a blade of grass to spare

Majesty to spare
This week THE DAILY POST HAS ASKED US TO TRANSLATE THE WORD SPARE INTO PHOTOS.
Click the link above to see all the spare posts.
Here is my interpretation of spare:

Brother can you spare a dime?

Not a blade of grass to spare

Majesty to spare
This week Cee has asked to show her our BUDDING talent in a photo. You can see exactly what that means by clicking the underlined link.

Here is mine Bud!


I haven’t posted any of my oddball photos recently. It’s been too busy for added strangeness but today I am going to bring back my odd ways.

Wouldn’t this make a great cover to a Steven King novel?
To see other Oddball Photos CLICK HERE
For this challenge Cee has asked us to show her HEADS AND FACES IN BLACK & WHITE.
Click that link to get head and shoulders above the rest. After you have seen my facial photos of course.




Thank you Cee for the honorable mention last week. Here are the other honorable mentions from last week’s B&W Challenge.
This Week We have been asked by the people over at the Daily Post to show us WHAT EARTH MEANS TO US. Click that underlined link to see what it means to others. Here is what I thought of.
Psalm 24
The earth is the LORD’S, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

2For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.

3Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?

View of Torc Mountain from Muckross House
4He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
5He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
6This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.
7Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
8Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.

9Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.

10Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah.


It’s time to have some FUN WITH PETS. At least that is what Cee says (and she is generally right about such things).
You can see lots of fun fotos of even funner (I know not a word) pets by clicking the link above.
Here are my fun pets.
In my house we currently have two dogs and a cat.

This is Mercedes. Here she is establishing with my daughter that she is indeed queen of the castle.

The snowball covered puppy in the front is Jacopo (pronounced Yacahpoh). He is Mercedes’ mate.

This is Snug one of Mercedes’ and Jacopo’s three children. He has lived with us for the last 20 months and just this week moved back to his home in the Netherlands.

This is Picasso. He and my daughter Amanda moved in last month.
Now up until last week we had three dogs and a cat. Then my sister moved to a her new home in the Netherlands. She is living on a farm in Zaandam. She and Snug have just made a new friend.

Well I am coming to the end of this color challenge and it has been real and real fun (even if I have spent the entirety of the challenge in the back of the pack). Today I am coloring my world YELLOW ORANGE.
Check out all the yellow orange posts at the link above.
Here is my yellow orange post.


I am still behind but coming to the wrap up of JENNIFER’S COLOR YOUR WORLD CHALLENGE. HERE IS YELLOW GREEN FOR YOUR PERUSAL.
Now you can find lots of yellow green things at that very long underlined link.
Here are my yellow greens:



This week THE DAILY POST HAS CHALLENGED US TO SHOW ADMIRATION.
I think what inspires admiration in me is an aura of the heroic.

My daughter is an inspiration to me. She is a consummate overcomer. Tenacious and directed. She has fought and advocated for herself every step of her journey and soon she hopes to be Pastor Amanda Lillie.

I admire my son for his bravery in traversing cultures and continents to be a teacher overseas.
I admire my son-in-law James and my daughter Melanie for stepping into marriage and making their way into ministry in the Boston suburbs.

I admire my sister who is heading to her mission field in the Netherlands tomorrow to bring the message of the gospel to the world through theater ministry
I admire the artists and ministry team of C.cada and Special Touch for their willingness to lay so much aside for the work of God’s kingdom.


And I really admire the staff and workers of Cornerstone for their hard work in the Lord.
Mostly I admire the One who has put something of the heroic in all of us.
