This year we have had almost no snow and all I can see while out around town are these dull and muted greys and browns, so I’ve been missing a little colour. So I figured I’d remedy that. This photo is a digital scan of a colour slide that I had shot a few year’s back of some Black-Eyed Susans (I think) from our old place in S’toon.
Recently I did some online searching about space and star sounds and images and I found a few amazing sites….. here’s a link to help start your own search.
hubblesite.org This site has images from the Hubble Space Telescope in it’s gallery that are utterly amazing (here’s one sample).
Joy to the World , the Lord is come!
Let earth receive her King;
Let every heart prepare Him room,
And Heaven and nature sing.
Joy to the World, the Savior reigns!
Let men their songs employ;
While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains
Repeat the sounding joy.
No more let sins and sorrows grow,
Nor thorns infest the ground;
He comes to make His blessings flow
Far as the curse is found.
He rules the world with truth and grace,
And makes the nations prove
The glories of His righteousness,
And wonders of His love.
Looking through an old cd with pics on it and I found these goodies. More to come……..
Ha, ha, ha, too funny and true and could easily apply to any social networking program (yes, even this blog).
Oops…. so I hadn’t noticed that the link to the 2nd video contained some language issues. Sorry!
It’s funny but everytime we have done a trip in the states there’s always one thing that grabs our attention while driving….the road signs.
The road signs are always yelling at us.
Signs like
“Litter AND IT WILL HURT!”,
or
“To be seen better TURN ON HEADLIGHTS”,
or how about this one,
“No excessive noise QUIET residential area”.
And on each sign the capitalized words are always noticably larger than the non-capitalized signs.
We get a kick out of how the signs are always yelling at drivers, but really, is it necessary? If you always have to yell in order for people to hear and obey doesn’t that tell you something about yourself?
Anyway, we’re glad to not get yelled at by Canadian road signs, nope, ours are more like a whisper.
I saw this posted once and thought I’d pick a band and try it too…. What you do is to pick a band you like and then cleverly answer the following questions using only song titles. You can only use a song title once. I picked David Crowder*Band. If you want to try it too, pick a different band and have at it. It can be quite a challenge.
Are you a male or female:
“He Was There”
Describe yourself:
“A Conversation”
How do you feel:
“Free (The Awakening)”
Describe where you currently live:
“Our Happy Home”
If you could go anywhere, where would you go:
“O God Where are You Now (In Pickerel Lake? Pigeon? Marquette? Mackinaw?)”
Your favorite form of transportation:
“Do Not Move”
Your best friend is:
“God Almighty, None Compares”
You and your best friend are:
“…neverending…”
What’s the weather like:
“Rain Down”
Is it Raining At Your House?
“Pour Over Me”
Favorite type of day:
“Open Skies (Dirty Beats Mix)”
You hope tonight is:
“Stars (From the Mount Wilson Observatory)”
If your life was a TV show, what would it be called:
“Beautiful Collision (B-Variant)”
What is life to you:
“What A Miracle”
Your relationship:
“Sparks Fly”
Your fear:
“You Alone”
What is the best advice you have to give:
“Surely We Can Change”
Thought for the Day:
“Break My Heart”
How I would like to die:
“Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven”
My soul’s present condition:
“Oh, Happiness”
My motto:
“We Won’t Be Quiet”
Below is a youtube link to a huge fire that happens two weeks ago near Trail, BC. A fire was somehow started at a battery recycling plant. What you will hear exploding are lithium batteries. The fire took place at a company called Toxco (bad choice of name). People could hear the explosions and see the fire from several miles away. Wow!
Today, like the last few years, we attended the Remembrance Day services at the Cenotaph here in Trail, BC. We never attended any services until our sons joined the Beavers (and now Cubs). But because the Beavers & Cubs march in the parade we’ve attended, and I’m glad we now do…. we’ve always appreciated the sacrifice made for our freedoms, but taking an hour to attend a service serves as a much better reminder of the sacrifices made for us.
Thank you to all who serve our country.
IN FLANDERS FIELDS
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place: and in the sky
The larks still bravely singing fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead: Short days ago,
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved: and now we lie
In Flanders fields!
Take up our quarrel with the foe
To you, from failing hands, we throw
The torch: be yours to hold it high
If ye break faith with us who die,
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields
By Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae
Composed at the battlefront on May 3, 1915
during the second battle of Ypres, Belgium
