Category Archives: January

Cold Beauty

“Life is full of beauty. Notice it.” -Ashley Smith Fog has never been a favorite weather pattern of mine, but photography is teaching me to notice beauty. I was washing dishes when I looked out and saw the  ice crystals on the trees and how the fog cast a filtered light. I left the dishes,...

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A Little Sweetness

Temperatures are bitter cold here, with mornings dropping down into the low 20′s.  Baby it is cold outside!  Every morning the world is covered with a white sparkle of heavy frost that looks like the world was sprinkled with powdered sugar.   My daughter took these two top photo’s. If this isn’t sweetness, I don’t know what...

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Shades of Blue

We have had some c o l d winter days lately. Not cold like in Minnesota, (we are spoiled wimps here in the pacific northwest!)  but down in the low 20′s at night and barely warming up during the day. The mountains surrounding us are covered with fresh snowfall every morning, but so far we...

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Winter Holiday

Today is my last day home on my winter holiday break. Tomorrow morning at 5:30 a.m., the alarm goes off and I head back to work with classes booked steady all month. Mostly we have just cocooned at home the entire break; first nursing ourselves to health after getting bronchitis following a terrible upper respiratory...

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Pray

“Prayer is nothing more than being on terms of friendship with God”-Saint Theresa of Avila “To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing. “- Martin Luther King Jr. May the words of my mouth and the mediation of my heart be pleasing to you, O Lord, my...

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