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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Summer Serenade

when the thunder stalks the sky
when tickle footed walks the fly
when shirt is wet and throat is dry
look, my darling, thats july.


though the grass be leather
and prickly temper tug the teather
shall we postpone our love for weather?
if we must melt, lets melt together.

~a physical and spiritual reflection of mine and his summer.

Croatia on the Sea

The last day of English camp clouds thickened and collagulated over Bakar 's skies. So I flew to the streets with my camera. At night in the Corzo of Rijeka.

Zander has taught me so much about myself and life. Like "dorks are cool" and "you can hear from the voice of God today" and "sleeping in the baptismal room during a sermon isn't neccessarily a sin".

At the Bridge down below from sarah and stevo's (2 of the most generous people).

Monsoon Mayhem!

Last night a monsoon bursted over our city. It swept in from the east, uprooting 60 year old to 1 year old trees alike.

This is a 60+ year pine tree fell with a soft thud last night from the micro burst. Wind currents transforming into stinging whips smoted many trees like this one all over the valley.

Our easy going neighbor Jim(whose tree it was). My parent's drive way that the tree fell to.

As a child I always wanted to climb to its very tip top. To see what the birds were squawking about. To see over the rooftops. To have climbed one of the tallest trees in the neighborhood. This morning I walked right into its sticky center. No bird's nests though. I ceremoniously took a piece of it's peppered colored bark and green needles to press as a memoir.

The Sanoran desert is anything but a dull and lifeless land.

I love you ARIZONA!

"This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough."

--> Mary Austin
Above our camp was the shadow of a striking profile. Appropriately, we were on the lands of the Dine (the people). 'Navajo' was a name dubbed by the Spanish. Meaning "theif".

Dad's trips are led by Native guides who take such good care of us. At night there are always flutes and drums, dancing and singing, story telling and answering questions around a great fire.

This fall dad has us signed up for:

Cochis Trail ----- Canyon de Chelly ------ Mohave Desert

Rijeka, Croatia

Me. Who recommends reading Balkan Ghosts, Neighbors, and anything else related to eastern europe. And I thought canada was the only shadow on the map in grade school....
There was so much destruction and evil terrorizing these people, such an urgency for a Savior. They were forgotten, ignored, and it makes me all the more passionate that zander is teaching history to american kids.

Heard it through the grape vine that there were nude beaches. Alas! I did but see only a few brazen old women. The waters were warm, except for pockets of shockingly cold flows,escaping from a spring in the cliffside.

I'll just go for it

The weekend of July 4

Late, late, late at night, waiting for z to rouse himself off the couch, so we can coast to Oak Creek.




Sycamore. One of my favorite trees.


The fish elly and liam caught.


elly with the fish's heart.

liam.

abigail.

I want a cool cool cool cool rider

He bought a Honda CBR 600 F3. vroom!

Who does Zander think he is?

Obviously, Michael Carrington.