Landscape wit

Heard from daddy doing a landscape cleanup with his teens: "What I wouldn't give for a sharp pruners - even my youngest daughter!"

Brother Blessings

I can move the sunrise

I am definitely feeling much more creative today than yesterday. In fact I think I may have to quit looking for nails b/c I think it could lead to Monkish behavior. I feel that I'm beginning to stoop over too many times to pick up what is definitely not a nail and am thereby ruining the aerobic benefit of walking in the first place.

So today I will share the great fun I had in moving the sunrise. I have been watching for the most lovely sunrise to photograph for quite some time. (All of this photo envy comes from reading too many photo blogs.) But I discovered that for either a sunrise or sunset the real problem was having a gorgeous horizon. Most of the horizons within walking distance have buildings, telephone poles or other unnatural shapes on them. The only truly photogenic spot is my river view. So when I saw the most lovely sunrise developing I ran down to the river only to find out that the sunrise glory was a good 18 degrees to the south. (I just love real life that includes geometry!)

Here comes the creative part: so what I did was take the river photo first and the colorful sunrise photo coming up over the telephone pole and photo-shopped them together (yes, it is a verb). This is the result, the telephone pole even slid nicely behind one of my river trees. Only please don't look too close b/c I am totally new at this and some of my trees look a little eerie after the whole ordeal. But still, I just love it - hope you do too!

Now if I was as smart as the teacher that showed us this trick I could also reflect the sky into the water complete with ripples in all the right places. Or if I was God. Or if I was patient and waited another 2 months when God really does move the sunrise over my river view.

Value

Ever have one of those days? You're pretty sure that everyone would have been better off if you hadn't shown up for work? Well, yesterday I was glad for this concrete (or metal) evidence that I had some value at the end of the day. These items are evidence that something I did was worthwhile, and I daresay profit-generating! Well, at least expense-reducing. These are what I picked up on my walk around the property, these are dangers that will not pierce tires and cost time and money to repair. So there!

Not impressed, well then I offer this: I Pe 2:8-9.