"First Signs" Revisited & Rolled Back

First Signs have been muted by a dump of snow today

First Signs

Sunday Afternoon, March 10, 2013, 15C - Wonderful!

 

Not Long Ago, in Tillsonburg

End of the Line

 

A Walk at Night in Tillsonburg

 

"Dream Home Series"

 

The house is just a block or two from where we live in Tillsonburg. Took these photos on a short walk the day after the "big" snow storm. What make this house especially appealing to me, apart from its architecture, is that it was the Manse (parsonage) in 1890 of the Minister of the Wesleyan Methodist church which amalgamated with two other denominations to become the United Church of Canada in 1925.

Today, it's still called "The Manse" but functions as a restaurant - casual fine dining, http://www.manserestaurant.com/index.html
Haven't been inside yet, but I think one day we may have lunch there.
 

New Camera

I've added a new camera to my collection.  The goal was to find a camera that could do it all, yet fit easily in my pocket, and cost less than my last camera.

Panasonic Lumix DMC ZS20K
 
There are complaints about "noise" in the photos, but I can deal with it.  It's a fabulous camera in all other respects.

So I suppose you'll be expecting to see some photos here! OK, they're coming.

In the meantime, you might review an updated History of my cameras to date (Feb 2013)
 

Change and Decay In All Around I See

Letchworth, NY 2007

"Dream Home Series"

Late afternoon, after grabbing a couple of geocaches, this scene caught my eye. The home certainly qualifies for the "Dream Home Series" though it is quite different from the others.

"What A Mess!"

 "End of the Line."

This morning, Jean and I found this little creek at the bottom of a very deep gulley behind our house.  When I first saw this old, wrecked and abandoned shopping cart, I said, "Huh, end of the Line." What went through my mind at the time was sadness at the mess people make and leave behind. Then I had thoughts about how this scene was a symbol of one outcome of consumerism; covet, get, consume, use/wreck/yesterday/dissatisfied/no longer in style, dump it/throw it out, what's next?

A few hours later, when I reviewed the photos of the cart, I saw in this scene, a symbol of the outcome of so many lives today. Racing about, desperate for joy, love, acknowledgment ... going about from one place, experience, job, person, marriage, to the next -- shopping for life, hungry for something deep and lovely, but never quite getting it, or getting something that's close but nothing seems to satisfy.Yet the yearning for it, and the hope of getting it, drives one even more, convinced that this time I'll find it, this time I'll finally grab it, like the ass following a carrot, or as one person of old wrote, it's "a chasing after the wind" (Eccl. 2:11). End of the line, indeed.  Let that not be your life. There is a much, much better way.

"Dream Home Series"

 

"Dream Home Series"

Dream Home Series - Norway

"Dream Home Series"

LuccaTuscany, Italy

I know this is a dreaming. So?

Places I'd Like to Visit

Baatara Gorge Waterfall Tannourin, Lebanon

"I want that Kitty!"

This is the kitty we'd like to have!

Our cat, Jehu, is no more. We still miss him. 

We've had cats since 1977, and we'll have more, I'm sure.

Dream Home Series

Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mud_creek_photo/ a small home in Port Huron

Dream Home Series

I just like the look of these houses  - complicated, interesting, mysterious

Dream Home Interior Series

This is the beginning of a "Dream Home Interior" Series.  Figured that we might as well look at some fabulous Dream Home Rooms!

(I grabbed this photo from http://sweethomestyle.tumblr.com/page/3)

My Mom

Frouwkje Visser (Wolters)

November 30, 1925 - January 1, 2012

A person in Christ, In anticipation of the Resurrection
(Psalm 73:28)

 

 

Frouwkje Visser,
November 30, 1925 - January 1, 2012

On the Lord's Day, the first day of a new year, the Lord Jesus took mom into his care. Amazingly, unplanned by us, but through the Lord's precise planning and care, my dad, brother and family, Jean and I were drawn to be together with mom in her room at the Meadows. An hour after we all arrived, it became clear that the end was near. We stood around her in prayer, and by the time we said 'amen', she was gone. The end was a generous act of mercy for she had suffered much in the last while.

http://www.lifenews.ca/thespec/profile/238626--visser-frouwkje-freda-nee-wolters

It's been a long time!

It used to be every other Friday night -- family over, make our own pizzas -- each time they were declared the best ever! Tonight, just the two of us, Jean and I made what we think are the "best ever". Jason will appreciate the cheese stuffed edging.

Good Memories

5:30 a.m. Sunrise - Aug 30, 2011 -- remembering all the great meals we've had here with family and friends Proverbs 15:17

Icing on Top

Onions have long been harvested; it's time to rest. With a touch of frost, there's icing on top. Psalm 147:16

There were only 3 or 4 camp sites occupied during the week we were in Allegheny State Park

It may seem like a carefully posed scene, but no, it just involved me getting on my knees and seeing the art.

For just a moment...

For just a moment the sun broke through the clouds and with the hills and trees displayed some Divine Glory. (4 p.m.) Click on the photo for larger image.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This was taken with my phone two days later in the early evening - the glory had changed

Dream Home Series

The Old Woman May have Lived in A Shoe, but wouldn't this be cool?

I edited the photo that I grabbed from the video
http://www.howrealtorshelp.ca/#video-old-woman-1