Counting my blessings

"Count your blessings, name them one by one,
and it will surprise you what the Lord has done."
(Johnson Oatman, Jr.)


These lines from the old hymn popped into my mind as I tried out my new camera phone which I'd almost given up on ever being able to purchase.  I'm amazed at how much sharper the pictures are than the ones from my regular camera, and how much more vivid the colors are too.

A beautiful day to be out and about

"An early morning walk is a blessing for the
whole day." -- Henry David Thoreau

After a long bout of using bad weather and the loss of my walking partner as excuses to stay in, I grabbed my camera and went for a long walk.  It was a beautiful sunny day, and the sky was as blue as a sky can be.

On my way downtown, a leprechaun smiled through a store window at me, and I stopped to take his picture.

There were lots of people out and about, and some brisk business seemed to be going on at the Trail's End Cycling Company's store.



From there I took the  the bike path home, after first checking out the town's time capsule, and taking some shots of the old train station.

Yesterday's Storm

"He sends the snow in all its lovely whiteness,
and scatters the frost upon the ground..."
(Psalm 147:16 TLB)

Can you see what I see?

The beautiful colors and reflections formed by the sun shining through a stained glass window in our prayer room at church momentarily distracted me, and I couldn't resist taking a few shots.

Can you see what I see?  A vacuum cleaner, a canary on a perch, a colorful bird with a tasty morsel in its beak?

Harbingers of Spring?

"As long as the earth remains, there will be
springtime and harvest, cold and heat, 
winter and summer, day and night."
(Genesis 8:22)

Today is Groundhogs Day, and the famous groundhogs don't seem to agree in their predictions of whether spring will come early or late.  My vote goes to early, given the gazillions of robins to be seen around town--even though the person who lives in the home where I took these pictures told me they come out like this to eat the rock salt splashed up onto the yard by cars whizzing by.

Mountain or Cloud?

"I will lift up my eyes to the hills--
From whence comes my help? My 
help comes from the LORD, Who
made heaven and earth."
(Psalm 121:1-2)

This was the sight that greeted me as I waked out of church a couple of Sundays ago.  For a moment I felt disoriented.  I couldn't remember there being a view of mountains on that side of town.  It turned out to be a cloud, but it took a while before I felt sure my memory wasn't failing me.

View through a stained glass window

"...we can see and understand only a little about God now,
as if we are peering at his reflection in a poor mirror; but
someday we are going to see him in his completeness, face
to face.  Now all that I know is hazy and blurred, but then
I will see everything clearly, just as clearly as God sees
into my heart right now." -- (1 Corinthians 13:12 TLB)





Views of the setting sun...


















...the lamppost in the parking lot... 

















 ...and reflections on the walls.