courtesy of arica

it never even occurred to me to "keep zander all to myself", i don't even know what that means. he is the most rich. soil that a farmer would kill for. any good and godly seed that is planted in his heart sprouts and grows. God has set caretakers over His son's plot: his family, friends, students, strangers are all used to help sanctify this boy. and what! i am the one that most takes advantage of it. for i have a better lover for it in the end. so thank - you!

Weeeeeezer! @ the fair!

good show, good show.

the only thing more cool than being weezer, is being zander.



and i did have a 'moment' with a character, larger than life, that night.
a specimen that outshined all the rock stars on stage.
my heart beat faster as its long neck rose above the crowd of squealing children and
concerned parents.
it swayed and to and fro, sniffing for concession stand food.
its knarly head banked toward my direction, hovered, then lowered, its profile only a camel hair away
and its inky black eye stared straight into my eyes, and 'blink, blink' it went, so i 'blink, blink' backed.
sigh. everything else was a blur.
and there was also a giraffe with lovely lashes.
a petting zoo at the phoenix fair grounds is definitely not what God intended for humans and animals coexistance. i anticpate Your return, Jesus!

On a Sunday

Our Best Days Are Sundays.




"In later navy days when my ship would be at sea for a fortnight, we found that it took about twenty-four hours for us to recover the reality of each other, even though we would have been thinking constantly of each other. What happened, we decided, was that, apart, we would slightly idealise each other, and to that extent lose the real preson. "



I think our two ships set sail Monday morning and dock at the harbor Saturday morning. We fill our separate vessels with the cargo and treasures of the sea and dump them at each other's feet expecting reciporcated awe. Sometimes it takes a day to readjust, even when we use morse code during the week.


The Sabboth was made for us.

perelandra

its one of my goals to be a little of this man. he had a 'green thumb' as the title goes and i'm hoping some of those green genes were passed down.

under the last wink of the sun, my shovel bit into the ground and spit out pesky bermuta grass, cleansing a 4x4 area for the fall garden.
~garlic
~kale
~broccoli
~carrot

{El Reno, Oklahoma: Grandfather Buckner}

mama and dad had a large vegetable garden on their 44 acre farm. the ground so fertile you could sneeze and "bless my soul! snot celery!" well...not really.

heaven is often on my mind or the new earth. our eyes will be fully open to Jesus's wild and passionate imagination and who knows what sorts of delicious and knarly things will grow! i cannot wait to get the new dirt under my nails and to feel the new sun on my back when i "toil" away in my garden on the new earth.

This Fall, Biltmore Fashion Park will kick-off "Movies in the Park", a new, six week event series starting Friday, October 3 through Friday, November 7 at 7:30 p.m. The movie series will feature classic American films on the Center Lawn and is free and open to the public. Catering to people of all ages, Movies in the Park will be a great way to spend a Friday evening under the stars. The movie schedule includes:

October 3- Casablanca

October 10- Goldfinger

October 17- Breakfast at Tiffany's

October 24- Sixteen Candles

October 31- Psycho

November 7- An Affair to Remember

boyce thompson arboretum

I forced my parents to go on an outing with me using timeless tactics Strategic moves involving whining, stamping feet, pleading, and a little manipulation thrown into the mix,(not at all a maturity digression). off we sped! to the boyce thompson arboretum. Oh, but once we were there, those kids had a great time.
Mama dappled into prickly pear:
sorbet,
cream cheese,
soup,
salsa,
smoothie &
jam
They had a class on how to harvest and pamper your palate. Just in time, dad's belly was starting to use my own timeless tactics against me. sheesh!



the living room of a family of 5 who cared for thompson's land.

An herb garden. cilantro. garlic. onion. peppermint.

The queen palo verde's emerald smooth limbs.

A palo blanco. ethereal. z is deeply enchanted by it. And there is a blue palo verde. And zander and i want them all to live with us.

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