The post for day fifty-seven (Sunday, 31 July 2011) is one that I am especially Grateful to be able to share with you. The photo is of a family that is currently living in China where they preach and teach the gospel of the glory of Jesus Christ. David James Cook, his wife Spring, and […]
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Grateful 365 Day Fifty-six
Ahh, the fun of breaking the rules! Grateful Day Fifty-six’s post breaks pretty much all the rules because I didn’t make the photo! So enjoy a post written by my wife, Sue, who made the shot… While Jerod was officiating a wedding rehearsal in the beautiful mountains of Nye, MT, I took the opportunity to […]
Grateful Day Fifty-five
As a reward for achieving a goal, I purchased the Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G AF-S DX lens and it arrived Friday, 29 July. I have been keeping my eye on a prime lens (fixed focal-length) for some time due to the wide range of low-light and narrow depth of field applications. I was going to take […]
Grateful Day Fifty-four
My wonderful wife, Sue, took our kids and two neighborhood girls out and about today to Old Navy and then to the mall (I know, brave!). While at Old Navy, Gannon found a toy that he absolutely had to have – a magnetic gyro wheel – but this one has a red light that only […]
Grateful 365 Day Fifty-three
I’ve been a bit delayed in posting Day 53 because I have had a really hard time deciding which photo to pick and what to say about it. So, I am completely disregarding the bounds I originally placed on myself for this project and am going to post several photos for today’s (Sunday, 24 July […]
Grateful 365 Day Fifty-two
As I mentioned in my previous post, I have been attending Spanish Peaks Men’s Clinic near Delmoe Lake recreation area just north of Pipestone, Montana. It is a beautiful spot nestled in a large bowl-shaped valley with a reservoir surrounded by granite peaks and acres of lodge pole pines. The area we use is on […]
Grateful 365 Day Fifty-one
One of the events that I look forward to every year is the “Peaks Men’s Clinic,” an annual meeting of men and boys from congregations all over the world. The purpose of the camp is to help encourage the men of the congregations to be men of God as examples of Christ to the world. […]
Grateful 365 Day Fifty
It’s funny how the human brain associates things to events. It is the reason we wear wedding rings, why we keep the pocketwatch our grandfather once owned, the thought behind bronzing baby shoes and such. It is a part of how God created us and it allows us to be connected to important events in […]
Grateful 365 Day Forty-nine
Day forty-eight was a photo of the night sky from the Westin Dallas Fort Worth Hotel where I stayed during a conference for work. Day forty-nine is of the same sky from the same place but during sunrise at around 5:15 a.m. Billings, MT is situated in the Yellowstone River valley and is hedged by […]
Grateful 365 Day Forty-eight
I have been away from my site and away from “normal” life for the last week or so. Things at work have gotten rather hectic and to top it off, I spent three days this week at a conference in Dallas, so I had to get as much done before the conference as I could. […]