Thursday, September 23, 2010

Don't Blink...

So often life moves quickly. We blink and we are married, blink again and we are having children. This is suddenly when life moves into overdrive. Our children are tiny for what seems moments. All to well I remember those moonlight feedings, just my little boy and me. After a bottle I would change him to snuggle into the rocker for a few quiet lullabies, but I must of blinked a but long, because this year that tiny baby started High School. The teen years are upon us. We have football games, and parent conferences, there are social events, and yes, even dating. How could my baby be old enough for High School, and wasn't it just yesterday that I myself was babysitting, attending cross country meets and spending Friday nights going to a movie or youth group event?!  Yes, the sands of time are slipping by quickly. But if a photo is worth a thousand words, then maybe a few will also slow things down long enough to be enjoyed. I am snapping these photos as quickly as they happen, and should I blink he will be grown all to soon. But a photograph remembers a feeling, a moment frozen in time. When I blink and he is married and grown I will have the time to sit and look at the wonderful photos being captured of the good times that are happening right now. As the popular song title says, Don't blink... life goes faster than you think

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Enjoying the beauty

I have been enjoying the cooler weather. I have spent some time in the back yard just watching the bees, moths and butterflies. I have a nice butterfly bush and morning glories that have bloomed and wrapped themselves around the back porch. These lovely gems showed up on their own, and with these gems comes the bees, and butterflies. I love thinking about the day that God created all this beauty. Every color, every detail, all wonderfully done by the Creators hand. I have taken my camera out on a few of the mornings and tried to do justice to the beauty of the colors and the stunning markings on the butterflies. I even managed to capture what is called a hummingbird moth. I could not stop following this guy and trying to watch as he enjoyed every bloom. Every time I captured something new I could not help but think What an amazing God we serve, and what a wonderful creation He has made!

Genesis 1:20-23 (New International Version)


 20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.