Springtime in Texas

Photo Information

Taken:	21 March 2007 09:47 at the farm near Cottonpatch, Texas
Camera:	Olympus C200Z
Exposure:	ISO 100
	8.2mm, 0 EV
	f7
	1/320

Backstory

Wouldn’t it be nice if rural life were really like this? Standing around watching the cows eat and the grass grow? <sigh/> It’s really a lot of work.

Nevertheless, I like the dream expressed in this picture. Suna is wearing one of her hand-knitted sweaters. The cows are grazing. The grass is green. All is right with the world.

–20 April 2012

From a Tiny Acorn…

Photo Information

Taken:	20 March 2007 17:01 St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Yorktown, Texas
Camera:	Olympus C200Z
Exposure:	ISO 100
	5.6mm, 0 EV
	f5.6
	1/400

Backstory

This tree should give us some perspective. Not only does it dwarf us physically, baring vandalism as befell the Treaty Oak or acts of God, this tree will out live us all. If we were lucky and lived in a different time, we could feed its roots when we died.

Local tradition has it this oak is more than 2,000 years old. As the church members put it, “It was around when Jesus walked the earth.”

–19 April 2012