UFO

Unidentified Flowering Object

Blackberry Winter

Oh my goodness!
What a difference a year can make
Dry, shriveled buds have been supplanted by
opulent blossoms and the promise of a
bumper crop of plain old wild blackberries;
ever so good for cannin' , pie makin',
and eatin' on vanilla ice cream
after supper sitting on the backporch
watching the sun go down
Everything
is green
and growing
The grass is rubbing
the cow's bellies as they graze.
The crickets and cicadas
sing their songs of joy.
Life is good.

Somewhere in France

Epitaphios

The noble Joseph, when he had taken

down Your most pure Body from the Tree,

wrapped it in fine linen and anointed it

with spices, and placed it in a new tomb.

Favorites Quiz

Here is an interesting Quiz from blog MORNING COFFEE.

Here goes:

A) FOUR PLACES I GO OVER AND OVER:

Sleep, work, church, did I say work?

B) FOUR PEOPLE WHO ENCOURAGED MY FAITH ALONG THE WAY:

Thomas Merton, an anonymous 14th century monk, Ronald Reagan,
and a young Episcopal Curate.

C) FOUR OF MY FAVORITE FOODS:

Ice cream, rice, peanut butter, sweet 'taters.

D) FOUR PLACES I WOULD RATHER BE RIGHT NOW:

Piney woods on a crisp fall day, sleeping in a grand hotel,
The good ship lollipop (complete with cute, happy music)
and of course, the right-hand line to the way out.

E) FOUR MOVIES I WOULD WATCH OVER AND OVER:

Apocalypse Now, Last of the Mohicans, Any Clint Eastwood cowboy
movie, The shootist (John Wayne's last movie, I think)

F) FOUR THINGS I LIKE ABOUT THE ORTHODOX CHURCH:

Continuity, Acapella hymnody, the primacy of prayer,
and a proper respect for the holy mysteries.

G) FOUR OF MY FAVORITE HOBBIES:

Net Surfing (maybe thats not a hobby, just a time-waster), art,
shooting, reading the Old Testament.

Charleton Heston
1924 - 2008

Vechnaya Pamyat!

Sky

An imaginary sky over imaginary mountains.