What’s your hope anchored to?
What’s hope you can believe in?
And what’s the fate of that hope?
The hope of so many folks is coming apart:
If your hopes are built on anything or anyone less than Jesus Christ, you’ve got to move your anchor!
My Photos
Little Things
Some of the little things we saw on our Mother’s Day “cruise” on Saturday:
It may be mostly green, but I think that’s really pretty.
Spunky little plants!
We saw these little red “warts” on a bunch of different leaves.
Pretty, too — as ants go.
As I recall, these were all taken at Newport’s Yaquina Bay State Park (or is it Yaquina Head State Park?).
Mother’s Day Jaunt
Yesterday I took Ruby out to the Oregon Coast. Usually we just go out to Lincoln City. This time we went to Newport via Corvallis so we could go on the route her family would take when she was a Child Yet At Home.
We stopped in at Toledo to visit her Mom’s very active eighty-year-old cousin Wilma. When we got there, we interrupted her work. She was out on her riding mower, mowing a vast expanse of yard.
After that we went on to Newport. One of our stops there was Yaquina Bay State Park:
But before Toledo and before Newport, we were at Philomath. We were past the turning spot before we saw it, so we turned around and went back to it: Southern Pacific Caboose 1160.
Well, folks, this morning I used Paint Shop Pro and two pictures I took on our jaunt to make a simple little Mother’s Day card for Ruby. Here are the two images I used:
(If you click the images, you should see the more complete pictures from which they came.)
That was a really nice 250-mile, 10-hour trip Ruby and I took together. We definitely enjoyed it very much. We didn’t do anything super special for our meals. In Philomath we bought snack wraps at McDonalds. In Newport we bought a foot-long sub at Subway. And in Salem we bought (at McDonalds) fish sandwiches, fries, two pies, a McFlurry, and a milkshake.
Oh, and in Depoe Bay we bought half a pound of salt water taffy.
Every Dime
Our coin box — shot with my cheapo cellphone
OK, so the expression every dime has been featured of late. So I’ll contribute to the FOL project. I Googled the phrase and what follows came up in the top ten results. Click the link to see what I left out. Or what has changed since I did my search.
| Details thin on stimulus contracts
Although President Obama has vowed that citizens will be able to track “every dime” of the $787 billion stimulus bill, a government website dedicated to the spending won’t have details on contracts and grants until October and may not be complete until next spring — halfway through the program, administration officials said. Recovery.gov now lists programs being funded by the stimulus money, but provides no details on who received the grants and contracts. |
Yup. That was at the top, though not surprisingly.
Among the remaining nine of the Top Ten:
| Fafsa in time saves every dime
Renovated Boshamer worth every dime it cost The Porsche Boxer Is Worth Every Dime |
Oh, and by the way, how many dimes do you see in the photo above? (Remember to click the image for a larger view.)
Quiz: Identify It
Here — from among the scores I took on my recent trip to Mexico — are six photos. (No, clicking on these will not take you to larger versions. Sorry.)
Beneath each photo is the identity question that goes with it.
1. What kind of airplane is that?
A. Bonus question: Who’s boarding it?
2. What mountain is that?
3. That fruit — what is it?
4. Can you find and identify the bird?
5. What’s this tree called?
6. What food is on the table?
Flying Economy
Has it come to this?
That photo is undoctored (except for resizing and sharpening). I took it myself. From where I was sitting in one of the over-the-wing emergency exits.
It seems to give new meaning to flying economy class!
(It’s mighty crowded under there!!)
😯
My Dog Out the Mailbox
Yes, that’s ours. I stay out of other people’s.
our dog Tyke; our driveway