We drove from Silver City through the Black Range to Emory Pass meeting friends of Steve’s from Las Cruces at this overlook early yesterday (Saturday) morning. It was a beautiful start to a gorgeous day wandering about the area, looking, shooting (with cameras :)! ) and sharing stories.
It rained overnight. This morning dawned cloudy with cool, sweet air. It is to be rainy and possibly thunder and hail but there are a lot of photos to be looked at and maybe a story or two to tell so a good day to be home.
More later.
Cholla not long after sunrise.
Along the morning walk.
Karl.
Into the sun.
Another blue sky morning for our morning walk.
We said hello to Hamburger and Sirloin who live beyond the fence in the neighboring pasture. Their brothers Ground Chuck and Studley were nearby…
Sunshine and blue sky accompanied Steve, Karl and I on our morning walk around Heron Lake at the Lakeside KOA in Ft. Collins, CO.
The new snow sparkled and the air was plenty crisp at 5F.
Oh, what a beautiful morning to start the week.
Steve and Karl have headed off in the Jeep to explore (and photograph!) the environs in the sunshine. Bob is enjoying the sunshine from the dash of the motorhome. I’m starting my Monday afternoon work session.
All is right in our little world. Hope in yours also – Happy Monday!
Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things. Isaiah 40:26
Photo taken 2/4/2010: more from the evening walk. This photo is very similar to the one posted previously, but the verse from Isaiah was part of my morning reflection and it led me to look at the group of photos from that evening.
In this morning’s entry, Oswald Chambers in “My Utmost for His Highest” writes:
“If we are children of God, we have a tremendous treasure in Nature. In every wind that blows, in every night and day of the year, in every sign of the sky, in every blossoming and in every withering of the earth, there is a real coming of God to us if we will simply use our starved imagination to realize it.”
My next reading from Andrew Murray’s “Mighty is His Hand” had a similar theme of God in everything:
Accept with gratitude everything that God allows to come into your life. I mean all things – whether from the world without, or attacks from within; whether from friend or enemy; in nature or in grace.
Hmmm
Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things. Isaiah 40:26
Amen!
Still water, so still that without the perspective of the shoreline there was that illusion that it was possible to fall into the sky.
Be still and know that I am God. Psalm 46:10
I can’t help but think of that verse when standing at this point on the lake on a day like this day.
Be peaceful, be quiet, be still.
Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park, January 29, 2010.
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For the forseeable future I have a Friday online meeting, a kind of “show and tell” as we proceed through development on the current project. At the end of the meeting we promise what is to be done by the next Friday and all through the week we push to keep to that schedule. The goal is to be in good shape by the end of Wednesday and have Thursday to test and tweak. The reality is that we are generally coding like “madmen”, doing minimal testing before and then crossing our fingers and toes through the Friday meeting…
Afterward, we have a hurried wrap party and then call it a week. This has worked nicely for the family Douglas as we’ve instituted a kind of Friday afternoon out. Yesterday was perfect for this – the sun was out, the roads are bare and dry and the only difficulty was deciding which direction to head.
We headed back to the park (Glacier National Park) to see how things looked in the sunshine, having seen them in mostly fog last Sunday. Oh, MY! – Lake McDonald was like glass, a mirror to the surrounding scenery…so clear and sharp in reflection that you almost lost your sense of up and down and felt like you could fall into the sky and the “bottom” of the mountains.
We also discovered that Apgar campground is open for winter camping. And there were spots cleared that would hold a Winnebago. Plans were discussed – our departure for New Mexico is on hold pending some things that need to be done here but an overnight or 2 in the park, with a view of Lake McDonald and probably no neighbors, has its appeal.
Then we headed for home…
You were expecting the lake reflection mountain shots???
Later for those park photos…
photos taken 1/27/2010, first 2 about 15 minutes before sunset at 5:15, the moon an hour later.
