Images - True Can

This photograph captures the Can that we see and love every day. His whole face lights up when he smiles, and he does this often.

Images - Forest for the Trees

Snow day

I still have to work today, but the kids got the day off. They are running around deliriously throwing snowballs at one another, crazy with the idea that we actually have snow. As you can see, we have been buried under at least three-fourths of an inch of snow and it is still coming down. Before it is all done, we may have as much as a whole inch. We're hoping that the Governer will declare a state of emergency so that we can get our fair share of federal government disaster relief money.

I was a little worried about he commute (Note how the treacherous the roads look) but I managed to make it in. There actually were a couple of wrecks along the way. I can't figure out how they managed to do it, because even in the spots where there were microscopic amounts of slush on the roads, they weren't slippery. One of the wrecks was an SUV. I figure that it was some idiot with four-wheel drive fever. In an effort to show off his four-wheel drive capabilities he decided to take a bend at 80 mph, never mind that he would never have gone 80 around the same bend in "good" weather.

Images - In a Forest Alone

I don't know if this tree created its own isolation through a light-blocking canopy, but it just sat off of the trail on its own despite being in the middle of a largely pine forest. I am reminded of the Christmas story about the the beautiful pine tree that kept its foliage all winter long while scoffing at the ugly old winter oak for giving up all of its leaves to shelter tiny cold birds and animals.

Images - Four Ducks in a Row

We went on a hike at Harris Lake during our MLK break. (Taken 01/15/07 at Harris Lake, NC)

"Wise and happy or stupid and miserable"

In a New Years Eve devotional President Hinckley gave youth the following counsel

"Don't make the kinds of mistakes that will bring regret. You can be wise and happy or stupid and miserable. The choice is yours."

Seems pretty straitforward and remeniscent of Jacob's counsel in the Book of Mormon.

"O be wise; what can I say more?"

Images - Pet Moss

The kids have been collecting pet moss lately. Dec is showing me his pet named Porcupiney.