A Few Decent Shots

It is amazing what digitizing a picture will show up. I looked at the film first and some of them looked pretty good. Then I looked at the same picture on the cd and wow, what a difference. Grainy, blurry, red-eyed people, out of focus and generally disappointing. Oh well, guess I'll just have to practice more. So here a few shots to give you all an idea. I may put a few more up later but that won't be until at least next year. So here you all go.

The Bride and Groom



A Bit of an idea of the setting. An indoor botanical garden.



Three of the Bridesmaids. The one on the left is the Bride's sister and the one in the middle was my partner. Anne I believe.


The Flower Girl. She insisted (strongly) on picking up all the petals after the ceremony. Quite amusing.


And the cake. Not to much to say about that.


And finally just for fun a picture of one of the guests. Personally I think this one came out really well (except for the head turned away that is ;) )

Quick Update

Just letting ya'll know that I'm back from my trip south. Ahh boy was it a good one! Incredible weather, wonderful georgia accents, seeing old friends, meeting new ones, and of course the wedding.

What pictures I took are currently being developed and will be coming with a picture cd, so hopefully before I leave for home on friday I'll put a few up for you'all to see. I wish I could have stayed down there in georgia longer so I could have seen several people I know down there, but with traveling with two others and having almost all my transportation taken care of, it was to good to pass up. So alas I'll just have to go down again sometime :)

Fascinating thing about the Christmas season: There is much, much more communication with people. I didn't check my email for five days and when I finally did, I had forty seven emails waiting for me! A personal record for me. Hope you're all having a great week getting ready for the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ!

Just A Reminder...

...that God really does, "watch over My Word to perform it." (Jer. 1:12)

Specifically the part about, "Bring the tithe into the storehouse...and I will open to you the windows of Heaven." (Mal. 3:10). How have I been reminded of this recently, you may ask. Well, this last Sunday I wrote a tithe check for the first time in three months. Yes I know, that is shocking but it wasn't because I was being a heathen and not giving them. There were legitimate reasons it was so long. However, needless to say it was a very large check and not one simply given away with no thought. One of the thoughts, as I put it into the tithes and offerings box, was 'Well God, you've made promises about giving and tithing and I put my trust in you and your promises.'

That was about 10am. Seven hours later I was on the phone with my boss finding out where I was working the next day. As we were wrapping the conversation, he brought up the subject of having a review (usually code for raise) within the next week. Not only that but he also mentioned my school reimbursement which I had sent in the paperwork for four months earlier. Coincidence? Maybe, but I think more likely God reminding me that He is involved personally in my (and our) life.


On a much sadder note, I admitted today that winter has pretty much begun. I've seen snow flurries, it has dropped below the freezing mark several times, I've had to scrape my windows in the morning, I've pulled out (and worn) my winter coat, the sun is going down at four; but today was the crowning event. I wore two pair of pants. Yes this morning I got up, went outside to start my car warming up and realized that my pair of jeans wasn't going to be good enough by themselves, I had to put on another pair underneath them. Sigh...the beginning of the end.
At least until April anyway.