A Photo A Week: Anticipation

Posted on November 16, 2014 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

Winter put in its first appearance this morning. It was gone by noon but left all of Winchendon MA in anticipation of the first big storm!

Check out Nancy’s photo blog to see how her other contributors interpreted the weekly theme: ANTICIPATION

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A Photo A Week Challenge: Livestock

Posted on October 30, 2014 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

This week’s challenge from Nancy is: LIVESTOCK.

Check out more livestock pictures at

http://nadiamerrillphotography.wordpress.com/2014/10/29/a-photo-a-week-challenge-livestock/

All I can say is that it is a good thing I went to Ireland recently. I may live in the country but I still spend more time behind a desk and in the office than I do around barnyards.

I guess the good Lord knew this opportunity would be coming so He chose to slow me down with a flock of sheep

In the mountains of Connemara

This photograph brought this Psalm to mind…

Psalm 100

A psalm of thanksgiving.

¹Shout with joy to the Lord, all the earth!
²    Worship the Lord with gladness.
    Come before him, singing with joy.
³Acknowledge that the Lord is God!
    He made us, and we are his.
    We are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
⁴Enter his gates with thanksgiving;
    go into his courts with praise.
    Give thanks to him and praise his name.
⁵For the Lord is good.
    His unfailing love continues forever,
    and his faithfulness continues to each generation.

A Word A Week Challenge: Hole

Posted on September 23, 2014 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

I haven’t done Sue’s challenge in a bit. But I had a great picture from Longwood that matched the thought! To see how others met the challenge go to:

http://suellewellyn2011.wordpress.com/2014/09/16/a-word-a-week-photograph-challenge-hole/

Here is my thought on it:

The Eye Of Water, Longwood Gardens

A Photo A Week: Music

Posted on September 19, 2014 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

Here is my response to Nancy’s challenge: MUSIC.

Doesn’t this scene just say “Europe” to you?

Check out Nancy’s other subscribers at

http://nadiamerrillphotography.wordpress.com/2014/09/18/a-photo-a-week-music/

A Photo A Week Challenge: In Memoriam

Posted on September 12, 2014 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

This post is written in response to Nancy Merrill’s challenge: In Memoriam

http://nadiamerrillphotography.wordpress.com/2014/09/11/a-photo-a-week-challenge-in-memoriam/

Grave of the very first Joseph E. Lillie

Death is Nothing at All

by Canon Henry Scott-Holland

Death is nothing at all,
I have only slipped away
into the next room.

I am I, and you are you.
Whatever we were to each other,
that we are still.

Call me by my old familiar name,
speak to me in the easy way
which you have always used to.
Put no difference in your tone,
wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.

Laugh as we always laughed
at the little jokes we enjoyed together.
Let my name be ever the household word
that it always was,
let it be spoken without effect,
without a trace of shadow on it.

Life means all that it ever meant.
It is the same as it ever was;
there is unbroken continuity.
Why should I be out of mind
because I am out of sight?
I am waiting for you, for an interval
somewhere very near,

just around the corner.

All is well.
Nothing is past; nothing is lost
One brief moment and all will be as it was before
How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again!