SPN

I'm off to our SPN (Senior Pastor's Network) mini retreat/meeting/get together thinger, we've never been good at labelling it, but it's a good time with talk about ministry, some sharing, praying and time to be with peers.  I hope to be able to bring some more photos back with me.  

Why don't you take some time to be quiet... that is if you can.  Quiet is good.

See ya soon.

Olivia bath time... and a full head

Too much stuff happening in my head to express anything that wouldn't ramble incessantly and whatever I wrote wouldn't even make sense to me.

So why blog today? Pictures! Bath time pictures of my daughter... so ya, enjoy.









As for the "post" that I referred to in my last post that I was working on... I forgot what it was about.

PicLens

I'm working on another post... but for now you must check this out. This is really, really cool, just about any site that you view images on, Google Images, Flickr, Facebook, Photobucket, whatever, after you install this plug in, you can browse these images in a kind of 3D wall format where you can easily skim and zoom in and out on each image and then pop open the page for that site.

I have been using a number of sites to help surf Flickr, but this, this right here is neato.
Check it out.

EDIT: you can browse YouTube videos too... wow.

Some Random Doug thoughts

What follows are some things I scribbled out in one of my journals today after walking through a park with lots of waterfowl.


So much life.
Despite all the chaos in our world, despite all the brokenness, the pain
- life still thrives -
Despite everything, pollution, global warming, species extinction, superbugs, pandemics, war, hate, intolerance, confusion, misunderstandings, there IS love and beauty still.

Perhaps that sounds cheesy. Sentimental. The mystery of the world is astounding. The simple/complex beauty of nature. The abundance of life in a flock of birds lifting off the water and seeing them span out across the sky.
The beauty and inspiration that comes from watching someone do something they love to do.
The peace of a child with their parent.
The smile of a friend when they see you.
The "newness" of spring after a long winter.

I think sometimes we get sucked inot the responsibilities and challenges of our lives; we are proud of the responsibility we have, we enjoy the challenges. Yet, as important as these things are, we miss things.
There is still beauty to see, music to hear, kindness to show, hope to share.

There is still life.

Some of my inspiration

I'm a big fan of Flickr. I like to see the work of lots of learning "picture people", professionals, hard core amateurs, budding enthusiasts, gear crazy hotshots, people who just "see" stuff and point some camera (any camera) at it and shoot... all of them learning. I like reading the stories about pictures. About what pictures mean to them.

Anyways...
here's a few of my favourites on Flickr. If you refresh the page you'll get a different set of the (currently) 176 of my favourites. Here's all of them in a row... or some to look at below: