“The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close up.”
― Chuck Palahniuk
Church window?
Nope a wall in a coffee shop!
This post was created for Weekly Photo Challenge: Perspective. It’s the second time this week I have been prompted to think about how different conclusions can be reached about the same subject simply by the position I find myself standing in.
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2014/03/07/photo-challenge-perspective/
This post was created in response to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge. You can see other sepia works at
http://ceenphotography.com/2014/03/03/cees-fun-foto-challenge-sepia-tones/
This post was made for Skywatch Friday. Travel to other skies at
http://skyley.blogspot.com/2008/06/da-rulez.html
“So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea.”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
This post was created for
Sometimes it’s not our circumstances that make us helpless. Rather it is our perception of our circumstances that bind and paralyze us.
“If a problem can’t be solved within the frame it was conceived, the solution lies in reframing the problem.”
― Brian McGreevy, Hemlock Grove
“It is difficult to see the picture when you are inside the frame.”
― Unknown Author 724
This post was created for “A Word A Week Challenge: Frames”
to see other frame photos and blogs go to
http://suellewellyn2011.wordpress.com/2014/02/27/a-word-a-week-photograph-challenge-frame/
I am so glad that as they have grown my children have gained an appreciation for books.
This year as a Christmas gift I gave my girls a book crawl and this weekend was the weekend for it.
Friday night I picked up James, my daughter Melanie’s fiancé in CT and brought him back to MA.
We met at my ex-wife’s house for dinner and to make plans for the wedding. Once my oldest daughter got home from work we headed to my house for a long winter’s nap before our Saturday drive.
On Saturday morning we left Winchendon at 8:30 A.M. and headed South.
Our first stop was Tatnuck Booksellers in Westbourough. I found a comfortable chair and opened my Kindle to read while the kids poked around.
They found nothing at bookstore number 1 but at bookstore number 2 in Worcester we hit pay dirt.
James at Annie’s Bookstore
Melanie in YA section at Annie’s
Amanda is a quick shopper. Melanie and James are consummate browsers. After two hours Amanda had a bag full of books and Melanie and James were still weighing their options. So I took Amanda on a walk back into childhood.
Me and Amanda reading Dr. Seuss.
By the time we finished we were all famished. I was truly ready for a cup of coffee
Then it was on to Niantic CT for a crawl through the Book Barn.
Amanda at the Book Barn
James and Melanie
Since James and Melanie both had to be back at their respective churches for ministry on Sunday morning we wrapped it up at the Book Barn and then I dropped James back off in Oakdale CT (he is a children’s minister in Norwich CT) and then we shot up to Haverhill MA for Melanie’s house (she is a children’s minster in Saugus MA). Amanda and I got in just before 11 and settled in for a good night’s rest before our ministry calls at Cornerstone (Amanda does children’s ministry at Cornerstone and I had to lead worship)
It was a great 14 hour day. One old wrinkly minister and three young eager ministers now each have ten more books to read!
This week’s “Fun Foto Challenge” From Cee is : The Color White
http://ceenphotography.com/2014/02/24/cees-fun-foto-challenge-the-color-white/
Check out Cee’s post to see what her other subscriber’s have said about whiteness!
“So all night long the storm roared on:
The morning broke without a sun;
In tiny spherule traced with lines
Of Nature’s geometric signs,
In starry flake, and pellicle,
All day the hoary meteor fell;
And, when the second morning shone,
We looked upon a world unknown,
On nothing we could call our own.
Around the glistening wonder bent
The blue walls of the firmament,
No cloud above, no earth below,—
A universe of sky and snow!”
― John Greenleaf Whittier, Complete poetical works
I have heard we have another foot of white coming on Monday. A universe of sky and snow indeed!
Light in the eastern sky, Jesus returning!
Light in the western sky, Jesus is near!
Soon shall the nations, His advent discerning,
Hail Him with gladness, or see Him with fear.
Refrain
Lord, by Thy hands that were nail pierced and torn:
Lord by the crown that they wove of the thorns:
Lord, by Thy passion in Gethsemane:
Christ of all tenderness, plead Thou for me!
Bright be our lamps as we watch for the dawning,
Girded our loins, that our strength may not fail;
So as He shines through the mists of the morning,
We may be ready to cry Him, “All hail!”
Refrain
Not as at Nazareth—lowly they found Him;
He as the Judge cometh back from the sky;
Borne on the whirlwind, with angels around Him,
Veiling their face from His glory so nigh.
Refrain
Judge of the earth, who in mercy unfailing
Offered Thyself as atonement for sin,
In that great day, by Thy love all prevailing,
Grant us the rest of Thy heaven to win!- Daniel B. Towner
This post was created for: http://skyley.blogspot.com/2008/06/da-rulez.html
“When I go down to the grave I can say, like many others, ‘I have finished my day’s work!’ But I cannot say, ‘I have finished my life.’ My day’s work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley; it is a thoroughfare! It closes on the twilight, it opens on the dawn! “
~Victor Hugo
I had another quote set for Ese’s Shoot & Quote Challenge this week which is:
http://esengasvoice.wordpress.com/2014/02/23/ese-s-weekly-shootquote-challenge-alive/
but when I found this quote by Hugo over at
http://boyslumber.wordpress.com/2014/02/26/quote-victor-hugo-feb-26/
I knew I had to change it up!
Me & the Cheese Cow
“To country people Cows are mild,
And flee from any stick they throw;
But I’m a timid town bred child,
And all the cattle seem to know.”
― T.S. Eliot
I am a country person but I’m with Elliot. Cows are scary things.
Check out more scary cows at:
http://sundaystills.wordpress.com/2014/02/24/sunday-stills-the-next-challenge-cows/
