Father's Day

Odds and Ends

Final Concert

Scenes from Dixie Week

Dixie Second Band

Anna and Heidi

coffee break

ready and raring

flute player?

campers camping

Band Camp Auditions

Anna was nervous, so she was very glad they allowed her Daddy to go into the audition with her.  She didn't know he was taping, though!

One Act of Thanksgiving Can Make All the Difference

One act of thanksgiving, when things go wrong with us, is worth a thousand thanks when things are agreeable to our inclinations.

--Saint John of Avila quoted by Ann Voskamp in 1000 Gifts

Toothless

Ian pulled again.  I just failed to get him in a picture.

Current Pets

Dad's Glads

Emily the Four-Year-Old Bunny

Pawprints the Recently Captured Turtle

Audrey the Six-Month-Old Princess

Antidote to Shapeless Idleness

I rather would entreat you to see the wonders of the world abroad, than, living dully, sluggardized at home, wear out your youth in shapeless idleness.

--from Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare

HT: Visual Latin

June Snaps

Gone Fishin'--Lewis and Grandad

a great birthday treat for any 9yo

Working Right

I asked that [work] should be looked upon--not as a necessary drudgery to be undergone for the purpose of making money, but as a way of life in which the nature of man should find its proper exercise and delight and so fulfill itself to the glory of God.  That it should, in fact, be thought of as a creative activity undertaken for the love of the work itself; and that man, made in God's image, should make things, as God makes them, for the sake of doing well a thing that is well worth doing.

--Dorothy Sayers

HT: Pastor Booth at Feast of Booths blog

Fishy McCousins

Leah is one, and Noah is three.  Both are as cute as can be!