Archive for ‘August, 2008’

Heavenly skies

Sunrise

Psalm 19:1-4 **

The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.

Day after day, they pour forth speech, night after night they display knowledge.

There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard.

Their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.

Clouds

**Thank you to a faithful reader for pointing me to the 19th Psalm – inspired by the Blue Holes post.

Photos are from Spearfish, SD – April 2008

My thoughts and prayers with the people and animals who call the Gulf Coast home as the skies there look to bring difficult circumstances in the next days.

Shocking Pink

This morning, sitting at my desk – suddenly the color seemed to shoot up in the sky. I grabbed my camera…

Just as fast as it came – the vibrant color faded and disappeared.

…shocking pink!

Blue holes

Yesterday morning was heavily overcast. I have learned to take the camera no matter what. As we left the property and entered the adjacent land which opens to the full sky and mountain view, a vivid blue hole in the overcast appeared. In my head, I said “a blue hole” and it reminded me of “The Blue Hole” – an anomaly in Castalia, Ohio.

“The Blue Hole” was one of those things like “House of Mystery” or “the largest” whatever. In my memory, it was the only venue of that nature that we ever stopped to see when I was a child. “The Blue Hole” was a deep water thing – supposedly of some nature that made it impossible to determine the depth. Also, it apparently lacked oxygen in the water. My memory is of a very blue water hole, surrounded by a fence and about 50 feet in diameter. I remember leaning against the fence and peering into the depths.

The thing is, I think I remember stopping at “The Blue Hole” more than once…and I think we had to pay to see it. And now I wonder why, as we never stopped at any of the other oddity tourist things.

The clouds brought up the memories of “The Blue Hole” and I was forming the blog post in my head…thinking to get any current information and web site links that had more information than I could dredge up from memory. When I googled “The Blue Hole Ohio”, I had a small shock. A number of entries referred to the scam that was “The Blue Hole”. Other sites had explanations. Some links were blog entries as this will be – childhood memories from people my age. “The Blue Hole” as an “attraction” no longer exists…and, of course, it had oxygen in it!

So, “The Blue Hole” of my childhood is a bit of a mystery. But the experience remains and the memory of the vivid blue..the memories surfacing today as I looked at the “blue holes” in the overcast sky of northwest Montana.

Blue holes…a bit of a mystery.

More critters

Karl… Karl went to the “dentist” on Tuesday. As they (vet) do the cleaning with the pet under anesthetic, Karl had a few more things “done”…a small cyst removed from his eyelid, x-rays to check his hips and 4 year old TPLO surgery (Tibia Plateau Leveling Osteotomy – the current procedure to “fix” a torn ACL in large dogs which involves taking the leg apart, changing the angle of the tibia and putting it back together – yeah, yuck – but it did the trick!). All was well with everything but they shaved his eyelid to remove the cyst so he looks like he was on the wrong end of a punch in the face…

Yesterday, which was also gray, rainy, dreary – Karl spent most of the day sleeping off the remains of the anesthetic, but today looks to be 100% himself – discounting the goofy eye look…

What’s up with Bob???

here’s what…

Critters…

Another visit

Bucky visits again…** The symmetry in his antlers is amazing!

…I hope it is weeds he is eating…

**I got to thinking about the first Bucky post …went and looked at it. I don’t think it is the same little Buck…we may have Bucky I and Bucky II…