What We’re Up To
Posted by Danielle Bean in Just me on Thursday, September 11, 2008
No boy needs television who has bright skies and tall trees.
Small View
Posted by Danielle Bean in Just me on Sunday, September 07, 2008
It’s easy to forget what a lovely world I live in sometimes. But that’s what kids are for.
The other day 8-year-old Juliette asked to use my camera. I was pleasantly surprised by the prettiness of the worldview I found in its memory when I uploaded the pictures today.
This is the world right outside my front door, but through a young girl’s eyes. See more of her photos here.
Seeking Beauty in the Muck
Posted by Elizabeth Foss in Features on Friday, August 15, 2008
By Elizabeth Foss
By Scott Russell Sanders
Illustrated by Robert Hynes
(National Geographic Children’s Books)
$7.95 from Amazon.com
When my three oldest boys were little, we lived in a townhouse with a postage-stamp-sized yard.
But this little house was set on the edge of Pohick Valley Stream Park, acres and acres of wooded parkland with a meandering creek running down the middle... READ MORE
Golden Rays
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Faith on Sunday, August 10, 2008
Once again I have nothing special to say about this photo, I just think it’s beautiful and mysterious. These are golden stingrays migrating off the coast of the Yucatan peninsula. See more photos and read more about it here.
What purpose do sting rays serve, and why should there be so many varieties of them? I like to think in making some creatures, the Lord was just having fun.
... READ MORE
An Inkling Of The Almighty
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Faith on Sunday, July 27, 2008
I confess: I have no easy means of making the sudden eruption—after 9000 years!—of a volcano in Chile early this Spring relevant to Faith & Family as such. It’s just I’d never heard of volcanic lightning before and the photo is so stunning, I had to share it. Beautiful and frightening. (Who was it said the Beautiful is a dimension of the Terrible?) See a larger version and read about the phenomenon... READ MORE
Wise As Serpents
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Faith on Thursday, July 17, 2008
The Vatican released some cute video and photos of the Holy Father being introduced to the fauna of Australia today: a kangaroo, a parrot, a koala. I think I’m not the only one who found the second image here rather arresting.
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