This is a picture that was sent to me by my cousin. It is the Caddo River which is where we spent many of our summers as kids growing up with our cousins. We would go here with my grandparents all the time. My Dad would always take us her to swim. It is just a wonderful place. We still occasionally go here still even as adults and bring our neice's and nephew now when we are home. There use to be a low water brigde but they eventually built a new bridge which is just not the same. The top pic is the bridge that is no longer there I think. My brother still floats the river. The water is always clear. This is not far from where my grandmother lived and now my aunt and uncle live there. It is just peaceful and just dirt roads still to get there. My cousin said this pic would make me homesick and it does.

Grace for the Moment by Max Lucado

Jesus spoke to them, saying, "Be of good cheer! It is I; Do not be afraid."
Matthew 14:27

When the disciples saw Jesus in the middle of their stormy night, they called him a ghost...To them, the glow was anything but God...We often have the same reaction. We dimiss occasional kindness as apparitions, accidents, or anomalies. Anything but God...And because we look for the bonfire, we miss the candle. because we listen for the shout, we miss the whisper. But it is in burnished candles that God comes, and through whispered promises he speaks.

More pic's of Italy

This is the Trevi Fountain in Rome, Italy

This is Venice below and the leaning tower of pisa to the right.

This is another one of my favorite pictures of me at the top of the Vatican in Italy writing a post card. The top pic is the Vactican from a distance. This was a good place to take black and white pictures. I did not have a digital camera then. I took two 35mm camera's one for black and white the other for color. I had 13 rolls of film and it cost me a small fortune to develop them. The pic of me writing at the top of the vatican is so me. We are going to Germany in October can't wait!

My Cat Socks

Time spent with cats is never wasted.
A cat has absolute emotional honesty.
Human beings, for one reason or another,
may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

This is one of my favorite pictures. It is of the ballpark with the bridge in the back.

John Lennon: "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."

"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." -- Joseph Addison

Stormy Weekend

I enjoy taking sepia tone and black and white pictures. This is the Bay Area and the fishing peir.

Stormy Weekend

It has rained here for four days. It never rains like that here. So we are having a very soggy 4th of July. This pic is of the Downtown bay area fishing peir. We often go down there to walk around take pictures and gives us a chance to just talk. It is nice to just get away from everything for a while. We will probably go watch some fireworks tonight if it is not raining. They are suppose to be shooting the fireworks of one of the ships in the bay.