"One thing at a time"

The cardinal family created their nest near our window in the front of our house. The nest is viewable from our bathroom window and it has sent me off to the bath room more frequently just to take a peak out the window.....I discovered the nest two weeks ago on Monday... so the nest may have been there for a while before that. Now, I was out of town last 5 days and I can not tell when theses babies hatched.... but from the look of the feather, I suspect that they are three days old?  I watched all three get their food from their Daddy today. What an excellent experience for any of us to get to see something like this?  These things always happen while my son is in school so I had to ,, just had to take shots.... I am grateful for my camera and the lens that allow me to capture something that often my naked eyes to not see......I was quite surprised to see the detail on photos.  The fuzzy feather on their head and the ...

Easter is here. Erik was excited to dig up the piece from last year that he played, actually once at Calhoun and another a week later where he was invited to play an offertory in Arcadia, LA. He did not need to practice since they did not need him to play this year but he practiced it anyway with such joy every day for a few weeks. I noticed that with him having grown quite a bit this past year, there was a definite difference in how he plays this piece,,, more power, so to speak,, more message,, maybe. It is unfortunate that we could not get our piano tuned until a few days after this recording was made.. if you have a perfect pitch,,, it may bother you a bit. Even though he did not need to play this year at our own church, he decided to play and share. We recently had a beautiful family visit us who are serving in Turkey. We do not know what kind of service they are having this year but we wanted to share the joy and share the significance of the day with our friends far away. We thi...