Pixoto Award

I was quite fortunate to capture the beauty of this meadow in the golden hours - the lighting was spectacular. The photo recently won an award on a photography website which I post some of my work. You can view the photo here: http://www.pixoto.com/images-photography/landscapes/prairies-meadows-and-fields/autumn-gold-74895212

"I"m So Glad I Live in a World Where There Are Octobers."

I"m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers."

L.M. Montgomery

October 7th - Alicia's Birthday Celebration

Featuring Alicia's Favorties:

Indian food, Tolkien, St. Francis, and her friends of course.

My adorable roommate brought me flowers. Aren't they lovely?

And what would October be without the vibrant foliage?

Photo Friday: Gold

Galadriel's Song of Eldamar

I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew:

Of wind I sang, a wind there came and in the branches blew.Beyond the Sun, beyond the Moon, the foam was on the Sea,And by the strand of Ilmarin there grew a golden Tree.Beneath the stars of Ever-eve in Eldamar it shone,In Eldamar beside the walls of Elven Tirion.Ah! like gold fall the leaves in the wind,long years numberless as the wings of trees!

The Setting of Summer

An agitation of the air,

A perturbation of the light

Admonished me the unloved year

Would turn on its hinge that night.

I stood in the disenchanted field

Amid the stubble and the stones,

Amazed, while a small worm lisped to me

The song of my marrow-bones.

Blue poured into summer blue,

A hawk broke from his cloudless tower,

The roof of the silo blazed, and I knew

That part of my life was over.

Already the iron door of the north

Clangs open: birds, leaves, snows

Order their populations forth,

And a cruel wind blows.

-Stanley Kunitz

Newest Photography Post - A Documentation of my Parish

http://captistempore.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-place-of-life-and-love-parish-of-st.html

New Photography Blog

I am launching a new photography blog! Check it out at:
http://captistempore.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-lovely-summer-wedding.html

First Fruits

"When Adam gardened, he imitated his Maker in a purely recreative act of cultivation and care. He did not need to subdue the earth in order for it to yield fruit. Rather, the plants were Adam's palette, and the earth was his canvas. There was nothing but delight in the Garden, for Eden itself means "garden of delight." 

- Vigen Guorian

Thanks to the great and admirable labors of my mother, our garden yielded its first fruits. Professor Guorian describes gardening as being an endeavor that acts toward the restoring our senses as well as blessing and sanctifying the earth given to us. 

In cultivating the earth may we also learn to cultivate our souls. 

A Prayer of Thanksgiving for Creation

O God, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen and unseen:

You place us in your creation, and you com- mand us to care for it.

Your works declare glory and splendor, and you call us to praise and reverence.

Where we have degraded or destroyed earth’s bounty, forgive us.

Where we have taken beauty and majesty for granted, have mercy upon us.

Where we have become estranged from the creatures with whom we share this planet, grant us your peace.

Renew us in the waters of baptism,

refresh us with the winds of your spirit,

and sustain us with the bread of life.

In the name of Jesus Christ, and for the sake of the new creation, we pray. Amen.