My Current Self Portrait

This is my current self portrait (with major Photoshop editing). Hell, if you know how to do it then you must. It keeps me out of bars - except the one that I have at home.

Christmas Day Dinner

Gloucester Cathedral Choir - In the Bleak Midwinter

If this does not reach you -- then you are unreachable!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRobryliBLQ&feature=player_embedded

In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow,
In the bleak midwinter, long ago.

Our God, Heaven cannot hold Him, nor earth sustain;
Heaven and earth shall flee away when He comes to reign.
In the bleak midwinter a stable place sufficed
The Lord God Almighty, Jesus Christ.

Enough for Him, whom cherubim, worship night and day,
Breastful of milk, and a mangerful of hay;
Enough for Him, whom angels fall before,
The ox and ass and camel which adore.

Angels and archangels may have gathered there,
Cherubim and seraphim thronged the air;
But His mother only, in her maiden bliss,
Worshipped the beloved with a kiss.

What can I give Him, poor as I am?
If I were a shepherd, I would bring a lamb;
If I were a Wise Man, I would do my part;
Yet what I can I give Him: give my heart.

Celebrating Freedom

My first book published on blurb.com was a book containing photos of fireworks of the display by the elite Burnsville development called Mountainair. The book can be viewed in its entirety on blurb at: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/768170. Just click on the preceeding link.

Wildflowers of Wildwood Acres

I recently published a 74 page book of my wildflowers. The entire book can be viewed on line at the blurb website: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2791936. A photo of the cover is shown here with the printed text as it appears on the book cover.

Old Home In The Mountains - HDR

It was a beautiful day and I managed to find an overgrown driveway up to the house that has long been abandoned. Three shots hand-held combined tone-mapped in Photomatix and tweaked in Photoshop CS5.

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Dance With Me To The End Of Love

"Dance Me To The End Of Love"

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Oh let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone
Let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon
Show me slowly what I only know the limits of
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to the wedding now, dance me on and on
Dance me very tenderly and dance me very long
We're both of us beneath our love, we're both of us above
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to the children who are asking to be born
Dance me through the curtains that our kisses have outworn
Raise a tent of shelter now, though every thread is torn
Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic till I'm gathered safely in
Touch me with your naked hand or touch me with your glove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love

"Dance Me To The End Of Love"

Per a request from Jewel

See Eleanor Powell Dance To The End Of Love