Astonish Me

Take a moment to watch this.  Whimsical and worth it.



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Good Friday, Passover and Earth Day...Amen!

I believe honoring the earth is honoring God.  If we make changes individually, we'll make them collectively thereby honoring God's creation and Jesus' sacrifice which was for all mankind.  It's too easy to smear the blood of a lamb (or perhaps baby seals) on our doors to avoid retribution.  We have to work for it. 

Can you tell I was raised in the church? 

Do something, anything, GREEN today!

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. ~Elwyn Brooks White, Essays of E.B. White, 1977


Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature. ~Dennis Gabor, Inventing the Future, 1963


Take nothing but pictures.
Leave nothing but footprints.
Kill nothing but time.

~Motto of the Baltimore Grotto, a caving society



Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. ~Chief Seattle, 1855


There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more.

~George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage


Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money.
~Cree Indian Proverb

Sunrise At the Trestle

Sunrise at the Trestle by Cole Scott

My husband trekked across the street from where we currently live in his mother's farm house.  He loves getting up before dawn to take the dogs into a wetlands field.  He says the light is perfect early in the morning and late in the afternoon.  He shot this a few days ago and I think it's one of his best.  As you can see, there is a train trestle in the fields and, yes, we do have a real old-fashioned diesel train using the tracks.  It's a huge tourist attraction in these here parts.  People just love to get on board and ride and wave and enjoy the beautiful scenery as the train takes you up in the White Mountains through Crawford Notch.

Double click for a larger image or visit his web site, Images by Cole Scott.