Of Recent Happenings

It is very late and I should be in bed. But I've just been poking around my two favorite blogs (If I've Told You Once and The Great Griffith Caper) and am feeling inspired by witty brevity and photographic proof of my own existence. Sometimes you can't fit everything in a facebook status. So it goes like this:

1. Jesus has taken over my painting instruction and together we produced this: (more story about this in a later blog)

It was a picture He put in my head and then pulled out of my fingers and we call it Stargazer. Apparently she climbed this ladder and took a star from the heavens to study it more closely. Then we did this for the art schedule poster for Book n' Brush (where I teach watercolor):Again, more on that later. I should start an art blog....

2. I've begun meeting once a week with fellow believers of all ages and stages to pray for our county. We move around to the hot spots in town and cover them and do warfare and revel in how great our God is. I should elaborate on this more at a later date as well, but I have started a blog for that: Pray Lewis County. Here's us at the court house one gorgeous summer evening:3. I went to Colorado on Wednesday to do flowers for and be in the wedding of my dear friend Carriann Apple-cum-Hartly. It was lovely, and if it weren't so late I'd figure out how to get pictures from my recalcitrant camera to this post. As it is, just imagine red roses so dark they are headed towards black, white orchids, and black ribbon loops. I also got to see darling Sarah Yeamens before she leaves for Sweden for two months, and she was kind enough to drive me all around Denver. Which, I discovered, I can see all of from highway 470, unlike the hill-surrounded metropoli of the northwest. It grows like a stalagmite out of the prairie before the Rockies arrive to save it from an isolation too complete to endure. Highlights: high tea at the Boulder Tea House (pictures coming), meeting Leigh and Mitch Bolton, the bride surging the hem of my dress ties the day before her wedding, cheese cake instead of wedding cake, watching the flower girl teach a pint-sized little man how to dance with her, and the incredibly cool woman (Cathy) I met on the plane coming home with whom I talked Jesus for two hours straight, told stories of His amazingness, and who prayed for my throat which was starting to hurt. It has since recovered.

4. About 15 of my facebook friends are pregnant. Just wow.

5. Worked on my car again and discovered..... well, we'll see if what we think we discovered was accurate or not.

6. Saw my sister and two of her friends off on another excursion aboard the Lady Washington, and bought a rock at Pirate Daze in Westport. Pictures forthcoming (of the rock)! Here are pictures of Maggie and the boat:

Things I have not done this summer include camp (sad), VBS (also sad), learn to play the squeeze box (this is definitely on my to-do list), and not see my best friend. :-)

These are the bare bones. Now I'm going to bed.