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Steeds in the Weeds

The Glory Days Are Gone!

So…what life lesson can you scrounge from that?

Saturday (March 19, 2011) night at 10:10 Pacific Time, I posted this to Facebook:

I better go out to look at the moon while it’s this close.

I took my obsolete Kodak CX7330 camera to capture the historic event: the once-every-18-years (?) super moon.

Here’s my favorite of the resulting photos:

Hopewell Mennonite Church and Super Moon

We attend (and are glad to be members of) Hopewell Mennonite Church.

I walked around our meeting house last evening and took a few photos shortly before/after five.

Hopewell’s west side (towards Hubbard, Oregon)

Yesterday morning, early, I rolled the garbage can out to the side of the road.

And decided to take a few early-morning, sun-rising fall photos. Of the maple trees. And the fog.

Then I looked west down the road.

And saw the fallen apples.

outside the fog line

casting shadows near the bridge

on Whiskey Hill Road’s shoulder

fall apples, wasting away

I’m thankful I could see those apples at that time of day in that kind of lighting with that kind of background.

Our old dog and our young cat, snoozing as they live — harmoniously

Dumped by their original owners, our two *ines get along well.

Yesterday morning I went out to unchain the dog.

I saw the sun rising on the just and on the unjust.

I shot the sun.

And the van and the door and me and the floor and the boxes.

Hazy early-morning sun reflects off our van

It also reflects off my pate!

Here it is, sneaking in through the somewhat-ajar door.

Having sneaked in, it climbs boxes from Rod and Staff Publishers.

Many cheers for sunshine!

Yesterday morning the folks at Master Books Homeschool posted this question:

How is God blessing your socks off today?

So I took a photo of me:

Blessed?

I actually have a caption superior to that one, but maybe you’ll come up with it on your own.

Yeah, that’s right — if you have a good caption, please post it as a comment below. Especially if it answers the question.

Or if you would rather just answer the question, that would be great as well.