an aunt extraordinaire

aunt kim, bless her, is endeavoring to make little alexander v a quilt! i sent her a splash of ideas that hopefully she can make sense of. i'm too all over the place when it comes to colors and themes. i can't wait to see the magic she weaves. i'm on sewing pins and needles! ha!

a rich man's song

people smile and tell me i'm the lucky one
and we've just begun, i think i'm gonna have a son
he will be like you and me, free as a dove
conceived in love, the sun is gonna shine above

even though we ain't got money
i'm so in love with ya honey
everything will bring a chain of love
in the mornin when i rise
you bring a tear of joy to my eyes
and tell me everythings gonna be all right

seems as though a month ago, i was beta chi
never got high
oh i was a sorry guy
and now i smile and face the girl who shares my name
now i'm through with the game
this boy will never be the same

pices, virgo rising is a very good sign
strong and kind
and the little boy is mine
now i see a family where there once was none
now we've just begun
yeah, we're gonna fly to the sun

love the girl who holds the world in a paper cup
drink it up, love her and she'll bring you luck
if ya find she helps your mind, better take her home
oh dontcha live alone, try to earn what lovers own

even though we ain't got money
i'm so in love with ya honey
everything will bring a chain of love
in the mornin when i rise
you bring a tear of joy to my eyes
and tell me everything is gonna be all right

ender's dreams

these winged beauties will hover in front of an old map of arizona. so while he is getting his pants changed, he can dream and scheme his desert escapades.

little oklahomas

some dads don't know how to talk to their daughters. when it comes to apologizing, they just tap into their martha stewart psyche and voila! a garden masterpiece! the man is full of mysteries!

ender's sea parents

leslie.
sperm whale: specifically moby.

They have the largest brain of any creature known to have lived on Earth.

Sperm whales and giant squid may be mortal enemies. Many stories of deadly battles between these two massive animals exist, and sperm whales have even been seen with suction cup-shaped wounds and remnants of giant squid in their stomachs.

zander.

Seahorses are truly unique, and not just because of their unusual equine shape. Unlike most other fish, they are monogamous and mate for life. Rarer still, they are among the only animal species on Earth in which the male bears the unborn young.

Male seahorses are equipped with a brood pouch on their ventral, or front-facing, side. When mating, the female deposits her eggs into his pouch, and the

male fertilizes them internally. He carries the eggs in his pouch until they hatch, then releases fully formed, miniature seahorses into the water.

{nationalgeographic.com}

cool photographers in cool jeep clubs

http://www.keijiiwai.com/Clients/SchultzFireSmall.mov

thankfully, it is under 'control'.

peach farm!

two of the weirdest, coolest people i know. zander and our neice abdul-qaadir, well her christian name is isla, but she had to convert to protect herself from the sun. very typical here in phoenix.

the fellas

"Through it all there is order and symmetry and a vision of what the completed edifice will be, a vision of a perfect structure, dedicated wholly to the honor and glory of a great, good and loving God" - margaret ecclesine i just knew these photographs would be the perfect pairing!

what can i say?

if its a boy, i hope he's just like this guy! and if its a girl, i hope she's just like this guy!

my body is the host of the most mysterious kind. a human being. i cannot grasp that there is a separate person within. i think i almost did, one morning, but the understanding was faint and fleeting.

life in me!

i wonder, "this has never happened to me before!" i wonder again, "perhaps, though, it has..."


i have the life of God in me, an infinite being. that powerful Someone who defied death, gruesome perversion, and decay has made a perfect little hovel in me.

i'm really anticapating feeling the baby's jiu jitsu moves, but i cherish deeply when i feel the Spirit move.


oh i can't wait to be like this woman!

greg & erin - camp

& noah was only a twinkle in their eye....

i think i had a perelandra moment....

with a lilac tree.

i was utterly stunned by its fragrance, its form, its existence. they visit junipine, like i do! but they come in may, apparently.

thanks to divine intervention, i encountered my very first lilac cluster. i will never be the same again. no seriously. img.credit



by another divine intervention, zander and i were walking habitually to our fry's store, down the way, when we walked into a fog of jasmine exhaling. i stopped dead in my tracks. unbelievable! a corridor of them all escaping over a neighbors backyard wall. now a pinch of them are visiting. they are drenching us.

"smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines, hidden under the weedy mass of many years and experienes. Hit a trip wire of smell, and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth." - diane ackerman

oh my!

scrumdiddlyrumpcious!

dear zander letter 4

you like him? fair warning: either the smoke monster is hiding out in our house somewhere (underneath with the rats?) or he took a big crap in our kitchen.
i cannot shake the smell of smoke. washed the walls and mopped the floors. your turn bud.

dear zander letter 3

bubba guarding the last of the fine lettuce
cabbage. a cool, mint green.

dear zander day 2

yesterday i went to the garden bed and gasp! look! wretchedness! i immediately started smashing little black eggs and i snatched a flying thing. it was fly like but with bee coloring.
http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/daffodils/76292 <-- please note
this bloom didn't even see the sun, poor dear, decapitated.

below are our healthy blooms.

thank you for bringing home some color

i can't wait to show you the culprits!

i just sprayed the infected ones and a healthy one on the south side of the fence with stuff we had under our sink (the turquoise bottle). to test. on the north side, none seem to be affected.

maybe you can come up with some bright ideas?

dear zander letter 1

this morning katie and i rode our bikes to church.we happpend upon a magical swing. location: we'll never tell. me and my bff.
wow, isn't pj a dork, just look at him


for lunch we went to a new burger joint. two hippies. and whadda know, there were magical mushrooms. katie had two helpings of those...

McDowell Mountains

a great place to survive in case of a highly likely zombie attack.
and yes, he climbed up there just for the photo. i think he was a little disappointed that it wasn't closer, failing to capture his tiny tank top and his GIANT muscles!

clear creek 01.18.10

" some people walk in the rain, others just get wet." - roger miller