Lavender Fields
Posted on January 15, 2010
Hood River, the Willamette Valley, whatever title you wish to give the area, one word really sums it up nicely – stunning. If you haven’t ever been, I highly suggest it. I have many more pictures from our trip there last fall, but this is just a teaser of one of the amazing lavender field farms there (one of several!). And oh, the smell! The picture alone brings the sweet, calming aroma to mind!
Wouldn’t this be a pretty place for a wedding?
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Here kitty, kitty
Posted on January 13, 2010
We went to the Portland zoo for the first time last spring. This pretty kitty was awful crabby. I don’t think he appreciated the camera in his face. He actually growled at me! Guess he’s not into the papparazzi.
You can actually see the glass being steamed up….
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Mountain majesty
Posted on January 12, 2010
These pictures were actually the very first taken when my canon 50D arrived last year. It was all shiny and new – and I couldn’t wait to use it! I went and shot the breath taking three Sisters mountains, also know as Faith, Hope, and Charity.
And then there is Broken Top:
The other more noticable moutain here in this range is Bachelor, which I do not yet have a photo of. For those not familiar with this area, Bachelor is the southern most mountain, Broken Top is in the middle, and the three sisters are to the north. The old story is that Broken top was the tribe chief, the three sisters his daughters, and Bachelor was the brave warrior of which all three sisters fought over. Eventually Broken Top got so tired of the bickering that he stood between the three sisters and the Bachelor and “blew his top” in frustration.
The bible says “I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible to you.” (Matthew 17:20)
I have not been able to make a single mountain budge, but I think even if I could – they are so beautiful and perfect exactly where they stand, right where God wanted them – that I wouldn’t want to.
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Feeling green?
Posted on July 8, 2009
Isn’t it amazing the little details we as adults miss every day in the normal hussle and bustle of life? On our way out the door the other day my children stopped and noticed this little frog sitting on our porch. I would not even have noticed him if it wasn’t for their careful eyes. He was so cute, if you could call a frog that, so I snapped a pic!
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