Joy Is My Goal: Weekend Snapshot we need rain

Sunday, August 10, 2008

Weekend Snapshot we need rain

I took these the other day when it rained I hope we get some tonight it is in the forecast. Today is the 29th day of 100 degrees or hotter!! We could sure use the relief.

17 comments:

Carver said...: I'm with you about the rain. I love it too. We've had a very hot summer here although this weekend was much cooler. I was grateful. I hope you get a break soon too.; 6:30 PM
maryt/theteach said...: I love rainy shots, marcia! We're expecting some rain so I'm going to get some! :); 6:39 PM
Anonymous said...: Marcia, I love rainy days! :) Good time to snuggle in bed with a good book :P

There's an award for you here.

Enjoy the week ahead!!!; 10:27 PM
SandyCarlson said...: Marcia,
You turn rain into art. How I admire that. Mary the Teach says we're getting rain up here, so I better go stick my head out the window and see what the world has to offer!; 10:35 PM
Anonymous said...: wishing you'd have more rain! Beautiful photos by the way; 10:53 PM
MiLeT said...: its hot here too where i am but its way hotter where you are. but the pink flower stick to my mind.

have a great week. i do hope you have some rain.; 11:03 PM
yvelle said...: lovely shots!
have a great week ahead.

http://biancaelyse-mylife.blogspot.com/2008/08/st-joseph-oratory-in-weekend-snapshot.html; 12:32 AM
Anonymous said...: Love the pictures... especially the rose... nice shot!

Happy WS... mine is up too...; 12:39 AM
Kero said...: same here in the scorching desert. we could use some rain. lovely rain shots. happy Monday! hope you can come visit my entry too at http://kcelebration.blogspot.com/search/label/weekend%20snapshot; 1:12 AM
tigerfish said...: So hot that the few drops of water sounds so precious.; 3:00 AM
Anonymous said...: it is freezing here on our side of the world. it's 0deg in some parts of sydney.; 5:57 AM
Jeanne said...: nice rainy shots:)
my WS entry is HERE; 6:04 AM
Anonymous said...: The raindrops are really beautiful! It was well captured!

My Weekend Snapshots are posted in these blogs:
Jenn Was Here
Shutter Happy Moments
Le Kulitszie Familie

Please drop by if you have some time. Thanks.; 8:31 AM
Pretty Life Online said...: I love that rose shot... Please help me! I was nominated for Pinoyworld blog of the week. Hope you can vote my Pretty Life Online here!!!; 4:21 PM
Lyndon said...: Love the shot with the beads of water on the flower :); 4:37 PM
Lana said...: I didn't realize we'd had that many days of hot.

Sorry you had a bad week, sorry if I was party to the dissappointment. Hope this week is better :); 5:34 PM
Anonymous said...: rain always has a way of making everything look so fresh and clean :)

great shots!; 5:10 AM

"A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world." --Paul Dudley White

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"Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired in the morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired." - George S. Patton, U.S. Army General, 1912 Olympian

Poem: “Welcome to Holland” by Emily Perl Kingsley

I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It’s like this…
When you’re going to have a baby, it’s like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It’s all very exciting.
After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, “Welcome To Holland”.
“Holland?!?” you say, “What do you mean “Holland”??? I signed up for Italy! I’m supposed to be in Italy. All my life I’ve dreamed of going to Italy”
But there’s been a change in the flight plan. They’ve landed in Holland and there you must stay.
The important thing is that they haven’t taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It’s just a different place.
So you must go and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met.
It’s just a different place. It’s slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you’ve been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around…and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills…Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts.
But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy…and they’re all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say “Yes that’s where I was supposed to go. That’s what I had planned”.
And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away…because the loss of that dream is a very significant loss.
But…if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn’t get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things…about Holland.

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Weekend Snapshot we need rain

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