Wordless Wednesday: Reconciling

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

Windows On My World

Posted on April 17, 2014 by joseph elon lillie under For Family & Fun

As I race through Holy Week I wanted to take a few moments and give you a glimpse through the window into my world using Cee’s Share Your World forum.

Lots of bloggers go to “Cee-Land” to share bits and pieces of their lives through Share Your World; So if you want to grab a hold of the tail of the blogosphere and discover tons of other fun bloggers pop on over to Cee’s blog when you are done here.

http://ceenphotography.com/2014/04/14/share-your-world-2014-week-15/

Here are this week’s questions to self-discovery:

For your blog do you basically use Windows or Mac, laptop, desktop, pad, or phone?

For writing my blog I use my desk top Windows almost exclusively. when reading and commenting I am generally on my Kindle.

As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?

As a boy I wanted to be a naturalist. But from eighth grade on I was pretty certain I wanted to be a pastor and a writer. I am one of those few fortunate given the privilege to realize his dreams. I love my life.

Did you grow up in a small or big town? Did you like it?

I grew up in a small town called Winchendon. My Grandad, my Dad and my Mom were all involved heavily in civic organizations and town politics. My folks owned a restaurant that was sort of the hub for local gossip and I started working there when I was fourteen. My graduating class was 72 kids. I absolutely loved the small town experience and wouldn’t have traded it for the world.

How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?

About 80. I’ve been called an old soul, but I think I’m pretty spry for an eighty year old.

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

I am so grateful for the opportunity to teach our church’s membership class and to host our town’s community garden planning meeting. I am so looking forward to Good friday, Easter and to celebrating my daughter’s 24th birthday! Oh and I am looking forward to the spring snow melting away. Here is what I woke up to this morning.

Beautiful but soooooo wrong!

Shoot & Quote: Whole

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

This post was created for Ese’s Shoot & Quote Challenge.

Like most things I have been creating lately this is more conceptual than realistic but it seems to be the space I am in right now.

The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eyeis evil, thy body also is full of darkness. Luke 11:34

Find more whole shots & quotes at Ese’s blog

http://esengasvoice.wordpress.com/2014/04/12/ese-s-weekly-shootquote-challenge-whole/

Wordless Wednesday: Frozen Not Flustered

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

Soylent Green Is People

Posted on April 15, 2014 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

OK so maybe nobody who missed the seventies sci-fi scene (that’s how it was spelled then) will get this reference unless of course you happened to see the equally arcane scyfy movie from 2012 (that’s how they spell it now) Cloud Atlas; But the line kept coming to mind as I walked through Keukenhof Gardens last year.

It was forty-five degrees and raining. Still people chose to show up with no coats. So Keukenhof staff were handing out these green rain ponchos. The hood of this very economical rain gear came down just below the eye line; So people were walking around half blind trying to look at flowers ,cutting each other off at every turn.

After three hours of nearly being trampled upon by the men and women in green, my sister and I began warning each other of oncoming danger with the buzz words “Soylent green is people!” We’d laugh hysterically and that made getting stepped on almost all right.

When I came back to the states and downloaded my pictures I thought maybe I should just delete these but they make me laugh every time I see them. I haven’t the heart to let the joke go.

To see other odd ball photos go to:

http://ceenphotography.com/2014/04/13/cees-odd-ball-photo-challenge-week-7/

Sunday Stills: Witloaf

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

This week’s Sunday Stills challenge is all about international cuisine.

As soon as I saw the theme I knew the picture I was going to post.This is witloaf (pronounced Vit-loaf). It’s chicken wrapped in bacon on a bed of endive and baked in a cheese crust smothered with a special red sauce. YUMMMMY! But what I remember about the meal beyond the great taste was the wonderful company. Thanks to Willem and Mirjam Jackson for the memories!

To discover other international dishes go to:

http://sundaystills.wordpress.com/2014/04/13/sunday-stills-the-next-challenge-international-food/

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Patterns

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

This post was created in response to

See how some of my fellow-blog-laborers answered this challenge at:

http://ceenphotography.com/2014/04/07/cees-fun-foto-challenge-patterns/

Here are my thoughts

“From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.”
― Tony Hillerman, Coyote Waits

The Water Dandelion, Keukenhof

“What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can’t decipher.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

Wordless Wednesday: Give Of Yourself

Posted on April 9, 2014 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

In Our Mist

Posted on April 5, 2014 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

This post was written in response to Ailsa’s Travel Cahllenge: MIST

To walk into the mists of other people’s creativity go here:

http://wheresmybackpack.com/2014/04/04/travel-theme-misty/

Here is what came out of my fog:

Whitney’s Pond From Ingleside Winchendon MA

“God is here, right now, at our side. We can see him in this mist, in the ground we’re walking on, even in my shoes. His angels keep watch while we sleep and help us in our work. In order to find God, you have only to look around.”
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Eagle Heights, WInchendon MA

“The hill pines were sighing, / O’ercast and chill was the day: / A mist in the valley lying / Blotted the pleasant May.

Robert Bridges

Zaanse Schans, the Netherlands

“To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of years, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.”

― Rachel Carson