Here are a few shots of
Close up…and ready for harvest!
Here is a shot of the Cap Rock! This s the place that it goes from VERY flat to “normal” country. I liked the shot because it was very clear where it starts and stops.
And this is just the tip of one of the wings of the planes flying from
Here is one of my favorite pics from the funeral…it is from the plane and taken with a long exposure! Those lights are the green lights on the runway of the plane in Houston. I just thought it was very cool!
Here is the same airplane ride, but this time with the lights blinking under the wing of the plane….
Here is a big red ball just outside of Target in Lubbock, TX….. I loved the way the sun was hitting it and thought the contrast of light around the globe was cool. I was wondering why this was there. I can not remember if there was just this one, or multiple balls were around the parking lot…but it would be cool, if this was the center of the target from the bull’s eye of the target logo.
And here is a shot of the shopping cart sing in the parking lot of Target….. I am not sure why I took this photo, but I like it…effective design work.
Hey everyone:
I wanted to let you know that I just found out from my dad that my Nanaw (Grandmother) just passed away and join the church triumphant tonight! I just go t in to my house from driving from Louisville after flying from Seattle to Houston and then Houston to Louisville…and I am currently looking for flights out of here to go home to TX for the funeral….
When my Daddy told me I immediately smiled! I shed a few tears too, but smiled from my soul. Nanaw is with Jesus! Praise be to God and on ALL SAINTS DAY SUNDAY, TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Also, while I was on the phone with my mother-in-law telling her about my Nanaw…their dog Matelda jumped through their back window shattering it all over their living room and the vet does not know if Matelda will make it because of all the blood loss.
So…needless to say our phone is off the hook, but there is joy in in our missing! And hope is renewed each night and each day with each life and each death! And from a book I am reading let me share part of a poem from Maya Angelou:
–from “When Great Trees Fall”
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And now a little from William W. How (1864) (Hebrews 12:1):
For all the saints, who from their labors rest,
Who Thee by faith before the world confessed,
Thy Name, O Jesus, be forever blessed.
Alleluia, Alleluia!
Thou wast their Rock, their Fortress and their Might;
Thou, Lord, their Captain in the well fought fight;
Thou, in the darkness drear, their one true Light.
Alleluia, Alleluia!
For the Apostles’ glorious company,
Who bearing forth the Cross o’er land and sea,
Shook all the mighty world, we sing to Thee:
Alleluia, Alleluia!
For the Evangelists, by whose blest word,
Like fourfold streams, the garden of the Lord,
Is fair and fruitful, be Thy Name adored.
Alleluia, Alleluia!
For Martyrs, who with rapture kindled eye,
Saw the bright crown descending from the sky,
And seeing, grasped it, Thee we glorify.
Alleluia, Alleluia!
O blest communion, fellowship divine!
We feebly struggle, they in glory shine;
All are one in Thee, for all are Thine.
Alleluia, Alleluia!
O may Thy soldiers, faithful, true and bold,
Fight as the saints who nobly fought of old,
And win with them the victor’s crown of gold.
Alleluia, Alleluia!
And when the strife is fierce, the warfare long,
Steals on the ear the distant triumph song,
And hearts are brave, again, and arms are strong.
Alleluia, Alleluia!
The golden evening brightens in the west;
Soon, soon to faithful warriors comes their rest;
Sweet is the calm of paradise the blessed.
Alleluia, Alleluia!
But lo! there breaks a yet more glorious day;
The saints triumphant rise in bright array;
The King of glory passes on His way.
Alleluia, Alleluia!
From earth’s wide bounds, from ocean’s farthest coast,
Through gates of pearl streams in the countless host,
And singing to Father, Son and Holy Ghost:
Alleluia, Alleluia!
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And just for god measure to throw a little Charles Wesley (1762) in there too:
I feel a strong immortal hope,
Which bears my mournful spirit up
Beneath its mountain load;
Redeemed from death, and grief, and pain,
I soon shall find my friend again
Within the arms of God.
Pass a few fleeting moments more
And death the blessing shall restore
Which death has snatched away;
For me Thou wilt the summons send,
And give me back my parted friend
In that eternal day.
I love you Jesus, take care of my Nanaw…she is yours and in your hands!
Thank you all for your thoughts and prayers, and I am sure our family loves you and thanks you for them as well! KUTPs!!! God bless yall!
Well after a VERY crazy ride to the Market…man the public transit system is filled with lots of “interesting” people. We had a very nice driver, and a very needed crack user, and one lady in the back that was mad at them both…heh…tons of fun…so we go toff the bus, ran into a Rite Aid to buy umbrella’s… so duh…it is freaking Seattle, heh…. and then we met some really good friends of mine @ the market right here at this place…where they are known for throwing fish….
Here is Juaniece enjoying a fish being thrown at her, heh heh… she so was sweet…we got there very late and they were about to close up…but she got them to throw one more fish so I could take a picture of it!!! She was so sweet and it was so good to see her and her husband Neil(sp?)!!! They really treated us wonderfully!…and even got our dinner that night! more on that later…but check out the flying fish above her head!!! Sorry it is blurry, but still very cool!
Here is a Monk Fish…why do I have one of the ugliest fish in the world on my blog?…well, 1) because it is freaking ugly, 2) it had a sign next to it that said it was a Monk Fish, 3) Monk Fish liver is my favorite Sushi!!!
Well, here are a few pics of the flight over here to Huston and then to Seattle!
Oxygen lamp anyone? heh heh.
All the brown is really beautiful changing color trees!
Loved it…can you tell? heh… I also took a movie of the airplane ride, but for some reason when I tried to transfer the video from my camera to my computer it corrupted the file…so no vblog this time around…sorry!
The trip here was tons of fun…except for all of the knee pains that those seats caused….but we made it and I had a great talk with a man originally from Cuba, that now lives in Florida with his wife and he was visiting his daughter in Seattle! It was some great talking about Revelation, the Roman Catholic Church, and organic church…..as you all could possibly imagine….it ROCKED!!!
So then we got into Seattle’s airport….got our luggage, ran and put the luggage along with our computers and the rented GPS device!!! (that freaking think ROCKS!!!! Man I want one…but I could never bring myself to be able to afford it..oh well…it sure has helped us get around and tons of fun to play around with it……anyway…. we put that stuff in the car…and then left the car and our stuff in the car, ran to the public transit bus and went as fast as we could to downtown Seattle to the Pike Place Market…and the 1st Starbucks!!!! More on that in the next post….
Well the staff took Gary (the Sr. Pastor @ Florence UMC) out to eat for his birthday. He wanted to go to the place where they cook it all right in front of you and flip their knives around and such…it was lots of fun and I just had to pull out the new cam and take a picture…anyway…Happy Birthday Gary and God bless you!
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Well, it is way too late for me to be writing this post…but I am doing it anyway…I am very excited because tomorrow we (Markus and myself) leave to go to Seattle. A place he has never been and I have only been a long time ago and remember very little! We hope to visit the 1st Starbucks (ever) and maybe get a bite to eat…anyway…yall have a great weekend. and I hope to get yall updates from the conference while I am there! Thank you so much for your prayers..for our travel, for Tiffany being a little sick, and most importantly for my Nanaw…..she is leaving the hospital tomorrow and being placed into the Floydada (my home town) nursing home until she gets a little better and then if she does well, they might let her go home!!! It is just amazing. I told my mom today, if there was anyone that deserved to get to go be with Jesus it would be Nanaw…but for some reason she just keeps on going…wow!!! OK I am going to bed…thanks to my wife pacing my bags and loving on me to go to bed…cyall and God bless you!!! KUTPs!!! 
So here is the place I love to run @ in Ft. Thomas! I really do miss running here if, 1)I can not have enough discipline to wake up in time, 2)it is raining, or lastly 3) My body needs to recover for the previous morning’s run, heh…
There are a few more photos over @ my flickr page if you want to see a few more.
This is my view from the home stretch…but the Nike+ device most of the time is off, and so I get to run a little more…and that is fine I need too anyway.
This is the sign that I was was not up….I would go much more often if I knew that I could bring Halo…but oh well, I am sure that the soccer players appreciate not finding the gifts that halo would leave for them.
Well, I took off the Frapper map thing on the right side of my blog. It was cool seeing where everyone is from, but it sure was taking a long time to load so it is gone now….
I added my wish list to the side though (just click the bottom that says: My wish list…it will send you to a del.icio.us set of book marks that includes my amazon wish list but also things that you can not get through Amazon…like the Salt Cellar from Alton Brown! woo hoo!)….now this wish list is not for you…unless you are family….I only put up a wish list because it saves my family and me the time it takes to ask what I would want and me getting caught up in the whole materialism thing. (i just do it once and it s done) and believe me I took the term WISH list literally! So don’t (even family) get too crazy in there!!!)
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Materialism has always been one of my weaknesses. It is hard when your birthday is in the end of November, and then Christmas rolls around right after that. It is almost like I have been trained all my life to get stuff around the end of the year….and even though I am MUCH better about this it still creeps up and scares me a little bit.
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So I am getting very excited about the conference
that I will be attending this Thursday thru Sunday in Seattle! I just bought some magazines for the flights and a book of poetry…yep that is right a book of poetry. Now I have never been a person of poetry, but seeing all the poetry over @ J.D.’s blog and hearing Fred Craddock speak made me want to try it out (for the first time since 8th grade)… So I bought a book on tape and a small book for the plane and I hope to go from there. For some reason my artistic side has been coming out lately through the camera and now I am wanting to play around a little bit with words. So if I ever get anything on paper I might try to put some of it here. Anyway yall take care God bless ya and have a wonderful evening…and week if I don’t blog before I leave. I am sure I will try (if I am not too tired) to blog the conference so maybe yall can be looking for that, as well.
Oh and the last I heard (this afternoon) was that Nanaw was doing better, but it is still a up hill battle from here on…s as always….please KUTPs!!!! Thank yall!
