Tree

If you were a tree

what kind would you be?

I think I would be one of these.

David was an olive tree

The Lover was an apple tree

The righteous man is a well watered tree

I think that I shall never see

A poem lovely as a tree...

Poems are made by fools like me,

but only God can make a tree.

Joyce Kilmer

Faces

Julie

Joel

Libby

Taste

If leaves were for eating

how would they taste?

Taste and see that the LORD is good Psalm 34.8 NIV

Bridge

Naomi and I amused ourselves on the covered bridge over the Cass River Friday afternoon while the rest of our party waited for chicken dinner to-go from the Castle shops beneath the Bavarian Inn in Frankenmuth. Earlier in the afternoon we dropped seventeen pounds of wool from Betsy's sheep Lou at the Woolen Mill to be cleaned and processed into quilt batting. 

When Naomi and I switched camera places and I became the model I was pleased to see her composing the photo by trying different camera angles. Her shots were a little blurry, probably because of a slow shutter speed, but that just adds to the atmosphere of the picture. She can learn about aperture and shutter speed later--it's more important that she learn to see a photograph before it is taken.

Campus

Part of my motivation in attending a lecture for my TESOL class (linguist John McWhorter spoke on the Power of Babel), was arriving on campus early enough yesterday evening to shoot photos. The sky was just displaying the spectacular hues that signaled that the sun reaching the horizon. I don't often haul my camera around campus with me, so it was a treat to capture the familiar sights, especially with such exciting light. 

B&W

A few years ago my grandma, great-aunt and great-uncle embarked on a color tour of the trees in the lower peninsula. When she returned home and had her prints developed, Grandma discovered she had been shooting with black and white film.

I decided to turn one of my tree shots to black and white. With the shift to monochrome, the mood of the picture changed from warm and inviting, to somewhat foreboding. 

Amanda

Photo credit: Libby Cook

Happy Birthday Amanda!