Showing posts with label sunburst. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sunburst. Show all posts

Monday, May 6, 2013

Life in an Instant

Keeping up with staying behind is becoming a regular occurrence for me. The sun has been out, showing off the glory of spring in the Northwest. Our family is preparing for another deployment, so we are, as always, striving to squeeze the fullness of joy from every moment we have. In light of this, combined with my many shortcomings, the photo update will be in the form of Instagram snapshots from my phone. (One of these days I'll catch up on my photo editing, and get my "big camera" photos up as well.)


This would look cool if it wasn't our sliding glass door
A beautiful design and an expensive window replacement.
(One should be mindful of flying rocks from weed eaters.)

"THERE IS a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. Men do not quarrel about the meaning of sunsets; they never dispute that the hawthorn says the best and wittiest thing about the spring."  ~G.K. Chesterton, A Defence of He
"There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. Men do not quarrel about the meaning of sunsets; they never dispute that the hawthorn says the best and wittiest thing about the spring."  
~G.K. Chesterton
Good morning #sunshine

Shine in the afternoon

#springtime

Anima Christi

Catholic Trivial Pursuit  with Fr. Harkins
Trivial Pursuit with Fr. Harkins

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Precious time with daddy while he is stateside

Fresh baked
Deceptively simple homemade bread

Bedtime reading

“Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people ar

“Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.” 
-G.K. Chesterton


Happy May Day

He who lives in a glass house shouldn't use a weed whacker... Out with the old & in with the new
The beautiful broken window being replaced 
with an ordinary unbroken window.

Hello Friday

Passio Christi, conforta me

Planted our garden today & T topped it off with a homemade sign burned in wood with a magnifying glass
Our spring fruits & veggies all planted, complete with a homemade sign made with the spring sunshine and a magnifying glass.

Family bike ride with an I've cream stop

Bike ride in the sun, with an ice cream break half way. Not a shabby way to spend a Satruday.

Sunday

Sunshine, family & a really good book

#sunshinedays

Let the sunshine in

"The truth about life is that joy and sorrow are mingled 
in an almost rhythmical alternation like day and night." 
-G.K. Chesterton

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Insta-Update

True to the pattern of life in the spring, things are busy around the house with Church, home schooling, enjoying the spring flowers and wondering at the common wonders of life. However, we're also preparing to send Stan out on his ninth Navy deployment in just a few days. We were able to head out of town for a last minute trip to spend a little family time before he heads out for the next six months. 

Since I'm terribly behind on editing the photos from my "big camera" I'll post a litany of Instagram shots from our last couple of weeks.  

My Prince Charming
I am one lucky girl.


#PicTapGo #tulips
Skagit Valley Tulip Festival

#StMarys
Our first stop on our trip was a few quiet days in Mt. Angel, Oregon. We stayed at the Monastery, visited St. Mary's for Mass and the Mt. Angel Abbey & Seminary.

Mass at St. Mary's #mtangel
St. Mary's Parish 
Mt. Angel, OR

St Mary's #mtangel

Our Lady of the Angels Monestary #MyAngel
Our Lady of the Angels Monastery

Brother Leonel with the girls
Our tour guide and friend, Brother Leonel

Mount Angel Abbey & Seminary
Mt. Angel Abbey & Seminary 

Mount Angel Abbey

Chesterton's scrapbook... I've found my section of the library
I enjoyed paroosing the library at the seminary. It was one of the places my dad had wanted to visit for years. Walking through three stories of books was a flood of thoughts and emotions. I especially enjoyed the several shelves of Chesterton books I found.

Brother Leonel giving us a tour of the seminary

Sausage factory

Mount Angel Benedictine Monastery #PicTapGo

Monastery & the redwood tree #mtangel
The redwood in front of the Monastery.

Under the redwood tree at the monastery
At the foot of the redwood tree.

Benedictine Monestary, Mt. Angel

Benedictine Monastery #MtAngel

Silver Falls
Silver Falls

Under the falls
The girlies walking behind the waterfall
#RoadTrip
On the road again

One more of a this curbside beauty in Red Bluff

Family Camping!
Beach camping in sunny Southern California

#ViewFromWhereIStand #PicTapGo

Camping diaries
Journaling our trip

I mustache you a question...
Excuse me, I mustache you a question...

...shave it for later
Shave it for later.
Ahhhhh vacation   #PicTapGo
Chesterton on the beach

Dinner time
Campfire dinners

Sunset

#relax

Castles in the sand
Castles in the sand
The castle before we bid it farewell to the engulfing appetite of the tide

Daddy/Daughter time. #PicTapGo

Breakfast in the sunshine

Beach #hairdo

It's a family affair

Master Builder
He is pretty amazing
A wonderful bird is the Pelican. His beak can hold more than his belly can.


Thankful for this family time before Stan's deployment. Precious memories

#PerfectDay

Daddy love #PicTapGo

#SunLove

Lover of books

#BeachLove

#ilovemyhusband

Mission Trip - trip to the Mission
San Juan Capistrano Mission
San Juan Capistrano #PicTapGo

#ilovemyhusband

San Juan Capistrano

Mission walls #sanjuancapistrano

San Juan Capistrano  #PicTapGo

The Belles & the Bells #PicTapGo

Prayers #PicTapGo

Koi at the Mission


Lunch in a train car  #PicTapGo
Lunch in a train car
Cutie outside the train place

Taking curiously silly photos

Scraping a layer of dead bugs off the line of sight

Rested & ready for the second half of the trip home

Home sweet home
Home Sweet Home

Sweet spring
Came home to our rhodie in full bloom

Dew fall

"THE fact is that purification and austerity are even more necessary for the appreciation of life and laughter than for anything else. To let no bird fly past unnoticed, to spell patiently the stones and weeds, to have the mind a storehouse of sunsets, re

"THE fact is that purification and austerity are even more necessary for the appreciation of life and laughter than for anything else. To let no bird fly past unnoticed, to spell patiently the stones and weeds, to have the mind a storehouse of sunsets, requires a discipline in pleasure and an education in gratitude." -G.K. Chesterton, Twelve Types

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