Some late snow

We've had hardly any snow this winter, until last week. It didn't stay long but it was very pretty while it lasted!

Raindrops

It's been raining a lot lately. I like to watch the way the rain hits the back deck, and I decided to play around with some raindrop shots. This is what I came up with. I put a high contrast black & white Lightroom preset on most of them, which brings out the lines and circles more. These shots ended up reminding me a little bit of shooting with black & white film.

For the Birds

Our family enjoys having a bird feeder right outside the kitchen window. Since we put up the suet cage again it seems like it's been especially busy out there. Some of our favorite visitors are the bushtits. They're extremely small and they really stick together. It's fun to watch a whole bunch of them crowd onto the suet cage at all these crazy angles. I took these pictures of the bushtits and a couple of the other birds we get while I was messing around with my telephoto lens.  

A Good Quote

"The real test of being in the presence of God is that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object. It is better to forget about yourself altogether."

-C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

I know...

It seems like every winter I just start dropping out of the blogosphere for long periods of time. I'm sorry. I'd say it won't happen any more, but that probably wouldn't be realistic. Part of the problem is that the thing that normally gets me blogging is pictures. Right now I spend most of my day inside working on school, where inspiration for photography tends to be pretty minimal. No pictures, hence no blog posts.

School right now is two Whitefield classes. I'm taking Foundations of Christian Culture and Biblical Discipleship. Biblical Discipleship is the first of Whitefield's counseling classes, an area that I recently got more interested in. It's a really good, practical class. The culture class is a little harder for me, but it's still good. I'm really looking forward to Christmas break, which is just around the corner...