A Foggy Sunrise

This was the view one foggy day back in July.
I love the thick fog off our back deck.

This was the view from the deck one day last week.

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Sky Watch: Blue Skies - Finally!

January 21, 2009

Finally after days of cold and snow and grey skies I see blue!
The day just kept getting better!

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Sky Watch: A Pink Sunset

Many times I'm sitting at my computer and can look out the huge double window in my sunroom. As I look through the branches of the big old oak tree often I catch a glimpse of the sky and know a sunset I wouldn't want to miss is about to happen. Traces of pink in this image were enough to make me grab my camera last Thursday as I was looking at Sky Watch posts and head outside.

Reaching my front porch this was the view over my front yard.

Waiting patiently I was soon treated to this beautiful pink sunset. Having lived almost thirty years in the city I know how lucky I am to be able to witness the beauty God spreads before me at my own front door.

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Sunday Blessings: A Year of Blogging

This was the view from my back deck one day last week. I think it's beautiful; but then I love snow and hope this will be the first of many winter scenes in my yard this year.

While things in my real world have been cold this week, my friend Rose thinks my blog is HOT!

I want to thank Rose for sending this my way. Usually on Sundays I like to post a wordless one with maybe a picture of some little church I've found but today I'm the one who is blessed by all the friends who read my blog everyday. I have just passed my one year anniversary of blogging. It is the friends who come and enjoy my endeavors that keep me doing it everyday. To be awarded for something I love doing is just icing on the cake. There are others I need to thank for some of those awards that have come in recent weeks.

Thanks Fishing Guy!

(He was the first to leave a comment a year ago!)

Thanks Paz!

(A year later I'm still trying.)

Thanks Again Paz!

(I never thought I could take a decent photo so this one is really SWEET!)

If I've missed anybody please let me know cause I'd love to acknowledge it here. Please know I so appreciate you.

Special THANKS to all my readers this past year for reading and leaving comments - I love you all!

When I started this blog I included a quote that really seemed to say what I couldn't. After a year of blogging it still represents what I'm striving for.

To quote Peter London one more time, “What I am after as an artist is to see around the bend of my life as I have lived it to date, and catch a glimpse of what may lay ahead. Or above. Or beyond. Or beneath.”

In The Eye of the Beholder

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In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.

~Aaron Rose

God's Been Painting My WorldA New Meme: Sepia Scenes

Today is the beginning of a new meme hosted by Mary/The Teach at Work of the Poet. We are posting images with the look of old photos. The sepia tone adds a sense of class and timelessness. My photo today is of an old furniture warehouse here in Parkersburg long ago gone out of business. Though abandoned and crumbling it still stands by the well used railroad track as a reminder of days gone by. These past few days color has been in abundance wherever I look. Soon it will all be that brown sepia color that sets in before winter. Along with my sepia image today I'm also sharing the color in my little corner of the world.

On a Sunday drive down a sun-dappled roadway I could see God's handiwork on the leaves of the trees and the mass of fallen ones that lined the road.

Closer to home one lone tree on the sloping countryside burst forth in golden color underneath the grey skies overhead.

Standing looking off my deck God whispered that I really didn't need to leave home at all. He had brought his handiwork to my own back yard.

Wherever you are today take time to enjoy your view!