Monday, October 24, 2005

McCamping 4




This weekend just past was spent at Fort Desoto Park Mccamping. I have gone Mccamping on three other occasions in about as many years and I enjoy it very much. It all starts with a call from the McMommy who organizes the adventures. This year’s was going to be attended by a record number of families but in the face of Wilma there were many cancellations. Below is an e-mail I sent to try and keep everyone on board.








The beach was just beautiful this year and deserves its #1 in the USA status!




Wish you all could be there. It was a joy filled time!

Sunday, October 23, 2005

Pumpkin Twins


Here is an image I just captured of my brother's, fiancĂ©’s, sister's, twin pumpkin children who seemed to be baffled and outraged at the whole situation. This is truly the season when mothers go the extra mile to embarrass their little ones and all of we grown up must admit what fun it is to watch the ensuing antics.
What a couple of little wonders!

Friday, October 21, 2005

He Is Going To Be Yoda


This is a clip for colemedia.com. These folks are friends of mine and relativley new parents. Theyare turning out to parenting pros and they make the whole family thing look like heaven on earth. Anywho enjoy!

Thursday, October 20, 2005

airlinemeals.net


Fascinating & Mundane airlinemeals.net

Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Jack


I was enlisted to capture some images for a great young family I know. They have a sharp and sassy little girl (who I of course cannot resist) and now they have been entrusted with Jack! What a little beauty he is. I had a great time snapping pictures of the little guy and visiting with the family at their home.

God bless you baby Jack with righteousness and humility. May you grow in the knowledge of our Heavenly Father, may you be a great light for Jesus in a dark world, and may your joy be full!



John 3
1 There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus,
a ruler of the Jews:
2 The same came to Jesus by night, and
said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man
can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.
3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say
unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he
is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?
5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a
man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which
is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7 Marvel not that I said
unto thee, Ye must be born again.
8 The wind bloweth where
it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it
cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
9 Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these
things be?
10 Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a
master of Israel, and knowest not these things?
11 Verily,
verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have
seen; and ye receive not our witness.
12 If I have told you
earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of
heavenly things?
13 And no man hath ascended up to heaven,
but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness,
even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
15 That whosoever
believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have
everlasting life.
17 For God sent not his Son into the
world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that
believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of
the only begotten Son of God.
19 And this is the
condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather
than light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For every one
that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds
should be reproved.
21 But he that doeth truth cometh to
the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

Monday, October 17, 2005

Muscovy Ducks

(Cairina moschata)




These are Muscovy Ducks I photographed AJ's home during his Bratoberfest celebration!

Friday, October 14, 2005

A Woman's Place




I had the privilege of taking a few images at the Light of Life Gala presented by A Woman's Place Ministries. What an inspirational service this ministry provides women who find themselves unexpectedly expectant.

The presentation was full of testimonies of by women whose lives had been forever changed by abortion. The ministries focus is to extend biblical counsel concerning pregnancy and life as the creator designed it. Their most effective tool in revealing the truth of the pregnancy process and the developing child that an abortion kills is ultra sound. At this evenings event the special guest so eloquently illustrated the facts by showing up in his/her mothers womb back stage via an amazing new 4D ultra sound machine. It was a wondrous site to behold!

The evening’s main purpose was to raise the funds necessary to equip the woman’s place ministries with just such a machine and Lord willing this life saving device will be in place in short order.

I have to say thanks to this ministry for boldly standing in the face of evil. Individuals and ministries like this daily keep this world from sinking in to insanity of a society who has abandoned the peace and order that God’s truth brings, for the chaos that the pursuit of self-gratification without limit or consequence brings. We must all be a light in anticipation of Jesus return.

Thursday, October 13, 2005

Skype


Ok I am officially A Skype fan! What a Super dooper messenger in a sea of messenger mediocrity.

Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Battery Terminal


A battery terminal and even more so a corroded battery terminal takes on a greater purpose if viewed as a metaphor for life.

Monday, October 10, 2005

Tia Chihuahua


Barely able to surmount a six inch step Tia presses onward in the twilight of her years.

Saturday, October 8, 2005

Black Snake & Ten 4 Ten


Black Racer on the street.


Albertson's Ten for Ten dollars deal! Gonna eat some ice cream while watching the Brit Coms!

Taylor Behl


Taylor Behl
Blog Trail
Behl's Live Journal Fawley's Live Journal

The internet can introduce you to your murderer.Just another friendly reminder that no one you meet on the internet is to be trusted. Always keep the information you post on the internet very generic and resist the temptation to reveal private information about your life to the scores of abusers, rapists, and murderers who are viewing information on the web.

Use the internet for all the good things it makes possible but be wise. Always keep your guard up and recognize that you have no clue who those folks you call friends from the internet really are.

Do not use last names or exact locations unless you are a gun toter in Florida, Yeeee Haaaaaw.
When posting images edit them to no larger than 400 x 400 and 60kb.
Do not communicate with folks over the net unless you met them before in the real world and independent of the internet.

Friday, October 7, 2005

Dominican Day 7





Thursday, October 6, 2005

Dominican Day 6

Dodson Blogging !


Another family from church has jumped on the blogwagon! Check them out and give them some love!

Has Photobucket Kicked The Bucket?

Photobucket.com is/was a free image host I use/used for many of my images on Billy's Captures. When you rely on a free service you know that all could be lost in mere seconds leaving gaping holes all over your blog. I took this risk and it would seem that the worst has come true.

I will be very interested to see what has happened and as nothing in the blogosphere remains in the dark for very long I am sure we will all know the details soon!

Photobucket offline, photobucket dead, photobucket not working, photobucket gone

Update:
According to this site there has been a bit of a fued and Photobucket was caught in the cross fire.

Wednesday, October 5, 2005

Dominican Day 5

Jeff Smith
Jeff Smith





Tuesday, October 4, 2005

Dominican As Of Day 4




Barn Dance






Went to a barn dance at Garner Glen to Celebrate Keith's 50th Birthday!



Monday, October 3, 2005

Dominican As Of Today

2005 Dominican Softball Mission Trip






Sunday, October 2, 2005

Voices From The Dominican

2005 Dominican Softball Mission Trip




Below is an audio post from Todd Roberts one of pastors at DIBC.
They will be keeping us all up to date on the mission trip to the Dominican Republic


Pastor Todd Roberts!



Tyler technical services guru!

Saturday, October 1, 2005

Through The Lens Gallery


The little men and I met a very nice photographer while on the North Beach. I wnet to his site and boy was it full of stunning images!Here is Mr. Dick Fortune and here is his web site

Fort Desoto


Pick up the A boys at 6:00am this morning and went to Fort Desoto to see if the Mackerel and Kings were running. They were not but what a beautiful day it was and what a grand time we had.


This is the second of tow fish we dragged up. A small Jack Cravelle.


Z fished while M watched and had the occasional outburst of song and dance.


We did all our fishing under the watchful eye of a Great Blue Heron.


Having had our fill of not catching fish we headed off to the cool waters of the North Beach! What sublime time on the squeaky sands and in the clear waters. Da boys made a sand castle in between wrestling matches in the shallow waters.