Category: In the States

Food for thought: Disillusionment & Community

Just a few words to chew on tonight as we seek what it means to live in community with one another. {Taken from Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer.} Innumerable times a whole Christian community has broken down because it… Read More

The Big Day Part One: Mr & Mrs

Instead of one really long post of pictures, I’m going to do a couple of somewhat long posts of pictures from the wedding day. All shots were captured by the talented Heidi Michelle, who in addition to beautifully telling the… Read More

Food for thought: The snail and the rose-bush

Jeff and I have been reading from a book of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales at night. Some of the stories are just plain strange, but quite a few have deep truths that nestle beneath the strangeness. An… Read More

Sunday Snapshot: River Sisters

{Canon Rebel XTi, Canon 100mm macro, f/3.5, shutter 1/500, ISO 400, edited in Photoshop CS5} Renae and I had been talking for awhile about taking some pictures of her two lovely daughters. The original plan was to get… Read More

Trapped

Sophie {with the exception of when she was an angelic sleeping newborn} has never been particularly easy to photograph. This girl loves to MOVE. This quality was beginning to emerge this past fall, was becoming more apparent at… Read More

Sunday Snapshot: Easter in Tampa

{Canon Rebel XTi, 50mm 1.4, ISO 800, f2.8, Shutter 1/80, edited in Photoshop CS5} When my sister’s mother-in-law (whom I affectionately refer to as my adopted mother-in-law) called about a month ago and asked if I’d come down… Read More

Sunday snapshot: Fruit {blossoms}

{Canon Rebel XTi, Canon macro 100mm 2.8, f/5.6, ISO 800, shutter 1/200, edited in Photoshop CS5} Ruts. They are so easy to get stuck in. Sometimes you need a good old kick in the pants to climb on… Read More

Sunday Snapshot: Home sweet beautiful home

Things have been mighty quiet here of late. But today I just had to share with you the beauty of the place I get to call home. Over the past few months, I’ve definitely begun the transition from… Read More

Really? Christmas?

I know we are WELL past the appropriate time to post Christmas pictures…but I just got around to finally editing them and I just had to share some of my favorites. It was so fun to get to… Read More

Sunday Snapshot: Covered Anew

I know I have been mighty silent of late…much on the mind and heart that at the right time will be shared. But today the wise pleas of Walter Brueggemann accompanied by the scenery I awoke to earlier this week…. Read More