awww sir william

Love this kiddo. MN Christian Teen Convention 2006.

awwwwww!!! wouldn't it be great to BE THERE????

i love camp. i LOVE camp. I. LOVE. CAMP.

ec

eyeshadooooooooooow

RR

I believe that this photo was taken after a train had finally gone by. As you can see, I was pleased that the wait was over. :-)

that-70s-show jackie

see what i mean?

sigh

i know i've already said i don't like church shopping, but let me say it again:

i do NOT like church shopping. i really really really really REALLY wish that i had a church home. sigh.

Please, Lord, guide me to place where I will both fit in and where You want to use me.

and now i will post pictures of whatever. for fun. :-)

One week ago ...

awwww! Minneapolis!

I was driving back to the Cities from South Dakota, and I approached Minneapolis, looking lovely a) because the view of Mpls from 35W North is decently spectacular, b) because I miss the city and was almost HOME (and got to see eir later that night!), c) because it had a weird glow to it from the sunset.

And as the sun lowered ...

coolio

... the pinkish glow became more prominent. And quickly changed to COPPER ...

blazing copper

... a BLAZING copper, as you can maybe tell from this (really bad) photo (taken while flying down the freeway). Doesn't that building look like it is made of glass, reflecting the sunlight?

copper

I wish you could have seen this! I have only seen this maybe one other time where the sunset is JUST RIGHT to make the entire scene GOLD, absolutely washed in gold. Last Friday's was cool. The time before that was BREATHTAKING. ... and kinda eery.

COPPER!

The buildings looked AWESOME, radiantly orange/copper, everywhere you looked. (My pictures do NOT do this scene justice. They were taken from my PHONE.)

bright rearview

Took a snapshot of my rearview mirror. Here's how it captured the brightness of the sunset behind me.

rearview

A moment or so later, as the sun continued to set behind the Mpls skyline.

35W

sunset

... and from the Target parking lot.

(I wish I would have had a really quality camera to take these photos. I wish you could understand what this REALLY looked like!)

HOME

i'm back in MINNESOTA. hooray!!!!

good news that coincides with it:
EIR is back in MINNESOTA! HOORAY!!!!!!!

i will have to post my (poor quality) pictures from driving back into the Cities tonight. i think i have only seen this one other time, where the sun hits everything in such a way that everything turns a crazy copper. the other time was even MORE stunning than earlier tonight, but i will post the pics i have nevertheless. (don't get too excited; the pictures were taken on my PDA.)

love! joy! weekend!

How appropriate!

"Jack's Campers" -- YESSSSS!

I LOVE IT. I feel like we should have a PHCA reunion underneath this sign ... "Jack's Campers" -- I wish the pic were bigger and better. I took this flying 75 mph (legal in SoDak!) on I-90.

An unfinished town

Part of the roads were "paved" with red rocks ...

Now, I don't want to sound like a city slicker (as Kevy thinks I am). Remember, I grew up in KIMBALL, pop. 690.

... but today I went to a town that was so old-school that I felt like I was in some time-stands-still place on earth. The gas pumps were the old kind, where you think Gomer's gonna step outside and fill 'er up for you. Parts of the roads stopped with the tar and started with this red-rock concoction. I don't exactly know how to describe the town so that you can understand what I'm getting at!

Oh little old Mayberry. In South Dakota. :-)

Aw man, you can't read it. But on the back window was written "Kylie's Daddy's Truck" -- AWWWW! 

Check this BRIDGE out! (I did.)