Wordless Wednesday: Full Of Faith

Posted on May 14, 2014 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

Share Your World With Cee Cee 2014 Week 19

Posted on May 14, 2014 by joseph elon lillie under For Family & Fun

This post is written in response to Cee Neuner’s blog series Share Your World. It has been a few days since I have written anything so I thought this would be a good exercise to warm up my “write” brain.

When you have finished with me here go on over to Cee’s forum to see what her other contributors have said. You can find those posts here:

http://ceenphotography.com/2014/05/12/share-your-world-2014-week-19/

Here are Cee’s questions for the week:

Bonus question: What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?

I just had to answer this before I began the questions proper. The reason I could not write this weekend was because I was attending my daughter and future son-in-law’s graduation.

Amanda Lillie, graduate Northpoint Bible College

James Franklin graduate Northpoint Bible College and his future wife Melanie Lillie

Now all of my kids are college grads. It was so nice to have them all together for the graduation. We made a pretty splendid party when all was said and done.

Note how happy Amanda is to be photographed

This week I am looking forward to meeting with the Winchendon Garden Club to discuss the Ingleside project and our community garden project.

Do you prefer shopping or going to a park?

I much prefer going to the park. I was just telling my life coach the other day that I needed more time to just sit and watch the world go by. I don’t need to buy it. I just need to see it.

What is the highest score you’ve ever made in bowling? Actual or virtually played.

Oh this is embarrassing. I think my highest score was between 60 and 70.

Name the foreign countries you’ve been to.

I have been to Mexico, England, Iceland, Ireland and Holland. I am going to tour Ireland with Amanda in the fall.

Describe your own outlook on life in seven words or less.

Follow Christ. Love others. Live your passion.

On the Move

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

this post was created for the Daily Posts’ Weekly Photo Challenge: ON THE MOVE

http://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_photo_challenge/on-the-move/

Here are my thoughts on the subject

: A different kind of water wheel, Kokenhof

: Cheese wheels in Alkmaar

“Take action! An inch of movement will bring you closer to your goals than a mile of intention.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Watching From the Window

Posted on May 10, 2014 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

This post was created for: A Word A Week Photography Challenge

http://suellewellyn2011.wordpress.com/2014/05/03/a-word-a-week-photograph-challenge-watch/

To see how others have interpreted the theme WATCH click on the above address.

“LOOKING

The world goes by, and what have I to do with it? I merely observe how the geese stretch their necks towards the orange rim of sky. I watch how light fades and children make their way home, hungry and tired. The bushes outside become ghosts while baths run and kitchen windows steam up with the cooking. This is the smell of our home, where I have a place in the wrinkled hours making beds and hugging boys awake. This is the sound of the house where I feel out lives into words, translate ragged nights and days into something whole, or try to. You may look if you wish….. The world goes by, and what have you or I to do with it, except perhaps for looking… ?”
― Jay Woodman, SPAN

Fun Foto Challenge: Leaves & Trees

Posted on May 8, 2014 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

This post was created for Cee’s Fun Fotot Challenge: LEAVES &TREES

http://ceenphotography.com/2014/05/06/cees-fun-foto-challenge-leaves-and-trees/

I found this tree in the Koog ZanDyke neighborhood just outside of Zandaam the Netherlands

I suppose it’s more of a giant pine cone than a leaf but I thought it was kind of cool.

Spring?

Posted on May 3, 2014 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

This post was written in response to the Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: SPRING

http://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_photo_challenge/spring-2/

I actually do feel pretty springish today. It’s not that the traditional things like daffodils or tulips are abounding anywhere (even the first dandelions haven’t budded yet) but this was us two short weeks ago.

So the fact that today my world looks like this

gives me hope that spring has finally arrived!

Skywatch Friday: Spring Sky

Posted on May 2, 2014 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.”
― Jandy Nelson, The Sky is Everywhere

This post was created for:

http://skyley.blogspot.com/2008/06/da-rulez.html

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Flowers

Posted on May 1, 2014 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

Howdy Everyone! I am getting back on track with blogging after my second illness in two weeks. I finished with the flu and promptly caught a horrific cold. I am on the upside of that now and would love to be enjoying the flower gardens right along with Cee. Since however it is all of 40 degrees and the only thing growing in my garden right now is frustration I thought I had better share some pretty-pretty pics from last years trip to Holland.