Fiction Tuesday – Caught In The Middle

Today’s blog continues my long-neglected satirical fantasy, In The Land of the Penny Gnomes Convoy vehicles were falling into formation ahead of the group’s transport as their turrets came alive. Bug pressed down the accelerator in order to join the formation as Fineflin brought their own guns to life. “What are you doing!” Oscar shrieked….

Party Time

Saturday night Central Baptist held its third annual Chili Cook Off. We hold this in support of our region’s Summer camp, Baptist Camp Lebanon, and all proceeds go toward an endowment campaign. Lebanon is a wonderful place, but camping is not a way to make money. The camp is annual money-loser, but if they were…

Mother’s Day Sunset

We had unending rain yesterday, which made Saturday a bit of a “meh” afternoon. Sunday, on the other hand, has been rather nice. I was able to head out with my neighbor on a nice photowalk and capture a choppy Delaware River. We did have heavy band of rain pass through in the late afternoon,…

Decorating

Central Baptist has a Portuguese speaking sister congregation, IBC. They’ve been part of our family for almost two years, and have brought an brilliant energy to our fellowship. It’s amazing to encounter how our different cultures tend to work, and how we compliment one another in many ways. One area in which our Brazilian family-members…

Outraged

I’ve been alive 2000 years and I’ve never had time for the luxury of outrage. The above is one of the more brilliant lines from the latest season of Dr. Who 1. The Doctor spoke it to his companion, Bill, when she wanted to scold him for accepting the death of a child. He didn’t…

Close Up

My friend managed to open up my 500mm reflex lens this week in order to clean the mirrors, so I wanted to see if it improved my shots at all. The results were mixed, I would really like to pick up a 500mm autofocus lens at some point, but I did manage to capture these…