From the 14th Floor

Vail Village, Colorado

Vail Village in Colorado has to be one of the best places for photographers...its just way too much fun!

In Anticipation...

A hush is over everything,

Silent as women wait for love;

The world is waiting for the spring.

~ Sara Teasdale

While You Were Sleeping

Oh little town of Bethlehem

Looks like another silent night

Above your deep and dreamless sleep

A giant star lights up the sky

And while you're lying in the dark

There shines an everlasting light

For the King has left His throne

And is sleeping in a manger tonight, tonight

Oh Bethlehem, what you have missed while you were sleeping

For God became a man

And stepped into your world today

Oh Bethlehem, you will go down in history

As a city with no room for its King

While you were sleeping

While you were sleeping

Oh little town of Jerusalem

Looks like another silent night

The Father gave His only Son

The Way, the Truth, the Life had come

But there was no room for Him in the world

He came to save

Jerusalem, what you have missed while you were sleeping

The Savior of the world is dying on your cross today

Jerusalem, you will go down in history

As a city with no room for its King

While you were sleeping

While you were sleeping

United States of America

Looks like another silent night

As we're sung to sleep by philosophies

That save the trees and kill the children

And while we're lying in the dark

There's a shout heard 'cross the eastern sky

For the Bridegroom has returned

And has carried His bride away in the night, in the night

America, what will we miss while we are sleeping

Will Jesus come again

And leave us slumbering where we lay

America, will we go down in history

As a nation with no room for its King

Will we be sleeping

Will we be sleeping

While You Were Sleeping ~ Casting Crowns

from the album "Peace on Earth"

[photo credit: Me (hehe) :)]

Romola Garai is Emma Woodhouse...

http://janitesonthejames.blogspot.com/2009/09/emma-2009-stuffy-period-drama.html

...and Ben Wishaw is John Keats! :)

http://www.brightstar-movie.com/

Summer '09 = Summer of Loooovee ;)

I am still in a slight state of shock that school is already here and summer is just about to slip away without us noticing. What happened? The Past 3 months have been an amazing time of wonderful-ness, and I'm not quite ready to give up that warm, happy, feel-good glow. I am going to miss the sound of the cicadas outside my window. I am going to miss the watermelon. I am going to miss driving with the windows down with the wind whipping back my hair. *Sigh* I am one big sentimental mess, and I have come to a conclusion.

I have been mis-placed.

I am supposed to live in Florida........

.........where the sunsets look like this. Every. Freakin'. Night.

I am torn, though. Mexico is pretty amazing, too.

But then I think about awesome places in Kansas, like the Sharp farm...

And trampolines.....

...and fireworks in big open fields...

...and firework SHOWS...

......and playing baseball.....

.....and the huge, open Prairie sky.....

........and wildflowers (how I love them).........

.........and cute horses......

..........and balloons tied up in trees for the 4th of July.......

........and I wonder......

If Kansas isn't really such a bad place after all. :)

Now That I Have Seen

Albertine

by Brooke Fraser

I am sitting still, I think of Angelique

Her mother's voice over me

And the bullets in the wall where it fell silent

And on a thousandth hill, I think of Albertine

There in her eyes what I don't see with my own

Rwanda

Now that I have seen, I am responsible

Faith without deeds is dead

Now that I have held you in my own arms, I will not let go till you are

I am on a plane, across a distant sea

But I carry you in me

And the dust on, the dust on, the dust on my feet

I will tell the world, I will tell them where I have been

I will tell the world

I will tell them Albertine

I am on a stage, a thousand eyes on me

I will tell them Albertine

I will tell them Albertine

This is my Albertine...my Samantha. Now that I have seen, I am responsible. And I will never forget.

The Window Into the Past

New Salem, Illinois

The Incredible Florida Sky