If I go up to the heavens, you are there;

if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.

If I rise on the wings of the dawn,

if I settle on the far side of the sea,

even there your hand will guide me,

your right hand will hold me fast.

If I say, 'Surely the darkness will hide me

and the light become night around me,'

even the darkness will not be dark to you;

the night will shine like the day,

for darkness is as light to you.

Psalm 139:8-12

Glasgow, Scotland

favourite time of year, again

the days too early to come and too early to stay

Summer Snow

On the last full day of Summer, we get snow!

This has been such an odd year of weather. I just love it.

Mt Morrison, Colorado

Another bench for you, Katie

Taken while I was wandering the gardens of Ham House.

(A rare instance where I was 'lost' on purpose.)

London, England

Happy Nineteenth!!!

One of the few things I love about winter - Canada geese. I know a lot of people think they are annoying, but I just love them. A small group of them stick around much of the year but they left our lake in August or so, and I can't wait for them to come back!

red among the rocks

Morrison, Colorado

inside leafs nation

Air Canada Centre

Toronto, Ontario

lovely day

One of the perfect days of the year.

This reminds me of one of those photos you see of an unfortunate girl who's skirt gets blown upwards in the wind!

swimming rat?

I regularly walk around the lake by our house and I like to observe the weather, plants, animals, etc. in the area. Well, this fine evening I was sitting on the rocks of the lake trying to get a nice photo of the lone Double-crested Cormorant that is still frequenting the lake, when this woman and her kids walk past looking at something swimming on the surface of the lake. I got up from my spot to go further down the lake and they stopped me to see if I knew what the strange thing was that was swimming on the surface. The mom described it as sort of something with a rodent's head, like a rat. I slightly doubted what they were saying and went over to sit and see if I could figure out what it was...

Well, she was right! It looked very much like a rodent, a rat even, that was swimming! And it would dive every so often and stay under water for a considerable amount of time. It's head looks like a rat/beaver mix, maybe too different a nose to be a rat, though. I still have no clue what it was and because the light was going out, I wasn't able to get a better picture. Alas, it will have to do - here is the odd creature:

Click on it and see if you can figure out what it is for me.

EDIT: Scratch that! I figured it out. It is a muskrat!! How thrilling... my first sighting of a muskrat (that I'm aware of) at our lake. !

View from Lambeth Bridge

London, England

Family Outing

St James Park, London, England

At some point during this month I'd really like to dig into my London photos because I haven't really played with them as much as I'd like to. There are so many of them and they make me feel like a child in a candy store when I look through them.

it's that time of year

I love Colorado peaches!

D.C. part something

The Old Post Office Pavillion

Very nice ceiling. Not so nice public restrooms.

Click on the image to better see the clouds and the tower bit of the building (seen at the bottom).

Washington, D.C.

Another sunflower

:O)

We didn't have quite as much haze from the CA/UT fires today as we did yesterday, but the sunset was still pretty (and maybe enhanced from the smoke still?).