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Water and sky.
Water And Sky.
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The Non-Outdoor Lover’s Guide To The Outdoors
I’m not real big on spending time outdoors, especially if it means sleeping with spiders in a tent, slapping mosquitoes the size of aircraft carriers, and using tree leaves for toilet paper. (Ew.)
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What I Hate About The Outer Banks
You know what I really hate about living on the Outer Banks?
It’s that the roads . . .
A Call To Colonoscopies. And A Picture Or Two.
It was quite interesting to read the many comments you all left on my recent colonoscopy post. They just reminded me once more what I love about the Smithellaneous community: you all are ready to jump right in there and share your stories and your experiences regardless of the subject!
I know that some of you may wonder though, why I am choosing to talk about a private-ish sort of procedure like a colonoscopy on such a public-ish sort of forum like Smithellaneous.
Cemetery Sunset . . . Revisited.
First of all, let me mention how much I’m loving reading the book conversations taking place in the comments area. You guys are giving me all sorts of books to search out because one is never too old to discover a new and fabulous children’s book! (And I’ve enjoyed reading the ideas for “older foks” too!)
Keep ‘em coming and also be sure to check back and see what the other Smithellaneous-ites have posted. This is so much fun!
Remember—the drawing will be on Thursday morning.
And now to today’s post . .
It’s Drama Time!
It’s always amazing to me how much has to happen in preparation for any sort of big production. We’ve been doing behind-the-scenes stuff so long for our Easter Drama that it’s hard to believe we’ve finally arrived at the point where we’re going to actually perform it tonight and tomorrow night.
Here are a few photos of what things looked like leading up to the two dress rehearsals.
Sick Snowy. Wedding House Sunrise.
Before getting to today’s post I just wanted to mention that we’ll be taking Snowy into the vet in a little while. For the past couple of days, he’s been making a coughing/choking sound and today it has gotten a whole lot worse; he’s probably coughed 150 times already this morning. He’s also drinking a lot and not urinating like he should which of course brings up all of our old concerns about his kidney stones/liver issues.
This is a frantic week already with dress rehearsals today and tomorrow and a huge Easter drama to perform on Thursday and Friday plus a big service on Easter Sunday. We’re already sort of “maxed out” so to throw this into the mix is a tough thing. Sarah was so concerned about him before she left for school this morning; those two are such good buddies.
Sheepish.
Last week after dinner Sarah suddenly looked up from her plate and exclaimed, “Animals!” I need pictures of animals!”
I stared at her in some consternation since she is not one who usually blurts out random statements about animals and the photography thereof. But as it turned out, she had pictures due for her photography class at school the next day and the assignment was to bring in photos of four different animals.
Hmmm. We are not exactly an animal-centric family.
Blue Tuesday.
Yesterday Steve and I had to go out to Rodanthe for a church-related appointment. We left for the appointment a little early and as I puttered around and took a few pictures, it occurred to me (not for the first time), that God did a really good job when He perused his color palette and decided on blue for sky and water. I mean, can you imagine an orange sky? Or a purple sky? Or a black or a green sky? Ick.
Blue is a serenely, utterly, completely, wondrously, marvelously perfect color for sky and water. Wouldn’t you agree?
I love that in this picture you can hardly even see where the sky leaves off and the water begins. It’s all just one big wash of beautiful blue.
Readers’ Pictures (Part 3)
Before I post our last round of Readers’ Pictures I want to say thanks to everyone who commented on Sunday’s Birthday Bash. Your sweet words and happy comments made me feel downright cheery!
Also, I want to mention that if you’ve ever wondered how to get a picture of yourself next to your comment, you can do it very easily be creating a quick account at Gravatar. Here is their description of a gravatar:
Reader’s Pictures (Part 2)
It Reader’s Pictures Time again!
I have so enjoyed seeing all the places, towns, and countries where you all live. In fact, I have had so many people send photos, that I’m going to extend this another week so you can look forward to another edition next Tuesday. And that means if you had some photos you didn’t get a chance to send in, you still have time!
Detoured By A Sunset
Yesterday afternoon I went into Nags Head to run some errands for the church and get my hair cut. I had actually grabbed my Nikon as I left because I knew I would be out there around sunset and I haven’t had a chance to take many pictures off of Roanoke Island where we live.
Well, I’m glad I thought to do the whole camera grab thing because I was about halfway home when I happened to glance to my right and see incredible loveliness. Of course, Mr. Nikon and I had to pull over.