America, the red green and blue

Creek.

Knarly things.

we lazed under the trees for 7 hours.

two of my most favorite creatures.

I am not embarassed to say that this is my family....

Fellowshipping with the trees.

Environmental Art

http://www.environmentalart.net/jonna_pohjalainen.htm

of angels and valar

if an angel were to entertain me...i'd hope she would be something like Yavanna, "the Giver of Fruits. She is the lover of all things that grow in the earth, and all their countless forms she holds in her mind, from the trees like towers in forests long ago to the moss upon stones or the small and secret things in the mould...In the form of a woman she is tall, robed in green; but at times she takes other shapes. Some there are who have seen her standing like a tree under heaven, crowned with the Sun; and from all its branches there spilled a golden dew upon the barren earth, and it grew green with corn."

-Silmarillion

Where the Wind Comes Sweeping Through the Plains

my heart is fractured across time and space. to be whole again! but it is nice to do routine check ups like in oklahoma, just to see if there is still a beat.

Welcome to Guthrie!
the station.cousins, kale & lily.me and sister at grandmother's home.

his adventure. i live vicariously.

he: speared 4 fish. unearthed torquoise. traveled 3 mi by his handmade sail. escaped the bog of eternal stench. traversed untainted dunes. and still....

him telling me that the trip would have been a thousand times more adventurous if i were there, was enough to subdue the green monster rising up in me. the beast is fed for now. i suspect its envious belly will grow hungry again about the same time next year... and it will take a lot more than throwing it a few bones.

Kickstart the Summer

the lone star state

the graduate! Dr. Toth

The Waco Zoo-------------------------*

Gloria Jet

A pleasure meeting again, Gloria Jet. You fascinate me, but we could never be friends.

"These wasps are relatively docile for a wasp and rarely sting without provocation though the sting, particularly of Pepsis formosa, is among the most painful of any insect. Commenting on his own experience, one researcher described the pain as "…immediate, excruciating pain that simply shuts down one's ability to do anything, except, perhaps, scream. Mental discipline simply does not work in these situations."In terms of scale, the wasp's sting is rated at the top of the Schmidt Sting Pain Index, second only to that of the bullet ant and is described by Schmidt as "Blinding, fierce [and] shockingly electric.". Because of their extremely large stingers, very few animals are able to eat them; one of the few animals that can is the roadrunner."

Did I just Wikepedia??

"a room without books is like a body without a soul"

i dream about this library.

and i am currently reading: the heart is a lonely hunter. then to shake the depression off after that doozey of a story, i'll delve into zander's childhood series with Dr. Cooper and his daring kids. after reading the one about the Dragon's Throat, i felt brave and invincible with the name of Jesus tucked under my tongue ready at any moment to strike the foe.

however...a very terrifying and eerie texan thunderstorm belittled my spirit...i'm very sensitive...no? regardless, i'm pushing onward to a fearless future with Jesus. thats that!