Icy Landscapes

Dear family, I post this blog as an appendix to Dietrich's last one. The over-night freezing rain this past weekend left everything amazingly beautiful. We were surrounded by so many scenes that made me wish I was a professional photographer. But I gave it my best shot anyway and took these pics while taking a walk in the lingering light rain:

(to get the best effect on some of them you need to click on the pictures to make them larger...especially "red".)

silver lake (or, for Betsy's sake, "silver pond")

silver lake, ice and raincattails


silver lake mill #1

silver lake mill #2



cold ducks


swings


silos





blue




red




bright swirls #1

bright swirls #2


fence

fireplace
together


captured buds


brick house

brick house #2

brick house #3


untitled #1

untitled #2

untitled #3

It would be fun to know which are your favorites. :)
Love to you all.
Philip

Alright, so Philip seems to be taking over the blogging scene. I'll try to make a comeback.
I have just recently gotten back into classes and consequently a load of reading is piling up around me. I am taking Christian Social Ethics, Religions of the Far East, Modern American Literature, Contemporary Politics (maybe), Evolution of the Modern Mind, and Spanish Conversation and Diction. Quite an array of classes that should be quite interesting. I am also going to be involved with a worship band that will lead worship at a campus-wide event. I have just met most of the people in the band so it should be fun getting to know them and getting everything to mesh.

On a different note altogether...
It iced over last night and today everything is beautiful. I was down at the college when the whole campus lost power because of a blown transformer or something; so we were less than halfway through class and we get the notice that class is canceled - what's an extra half-hour? oh well, now i have time to goof off before work. Tonight I work from 4-8 at Sharp and then maybe doing something with our good friend Will. dumpster diving is not out of the question. Anyhow, that's my life - next week we go to South Carolina to sing, so pray for 3n1!

Candice, I'm very excited about the new family member- congratulations!

Love you all!!
Diech