Sophia Hawk was baptized today at Saint Patrick's.

  It was our privilege to be present.  Here are a few photos of the occasion.

Grant, O Lord, that all who are baptized into the death of Jesus Christ your Son may live in the power of his resurrection and look for him to come again; who lives and reigns now and for ever.  Amen.

I wanted to experiment with how Posterous handles photos.  I just grabbed a few from my Flickr page that I took at St. Meinrad a couple of years ago while on retreat.  You can view the rest of the set here.

Took a bit of a drive in the country today . . . and happened upon this.  Thought I was in England for a minute.

   

 

What a great Holy Week.  Check out some of my photos from Palm Sunday and the Easter Vigil on my Flickr page.  I am blessed to be an Anglican Christian and to belong to such a great church community.

It's a little snowy in Lexington today.  We have at least six inches on the ground.  I just shoveled the driveway and definitely got my exercise in for the day.  Check out a few more snowy photos on my Flickr page.

What was my weekend like? Probably the best part of it was attending Sunday's confirmation service in Louisville. Six folks from St. Patrick's were confirmed by the Rt. Rev. Francis Lyons, Bishop of Bolivia. I took several photos during the confirmation and of course, you can view them on my flickr page. Those photos are just full of Anglican goodness. :-)

Of course, we couldn't end the evening without food! We all ate a great meal together at the Fox and Hound Pub & Grille before making our way back to Lexington. My fish and chips rocked.

Peace.

Not too bad of a shot considering I wasn't using a tripod. Yes, I'm entertaining myself today by taking photos. Click on the photo to see the original.

It's rainy and overcast in Kentucky this morning and the temperatures look to be much cooler than they have been. We're even supposed to be in the 60's on Saturday. I LOVE cooler temperatures that fall is known for. I can't wait to cool off a bit and be able to do more hiking in the great outdoors.

I never hike without my camera and in a few more days, I'll own a new Canon PowerShot S5. I received a new one in the mail this past Friday but, it appeared to be sick. It worked great for a while and then it decided to become very uncooperative. After talking to the tech at Canon, we determined my camera was defective and had to be returned. Hopefully, the new S5 will work as it should and be as reliable as my old PowerShot A60 has been. I'm sure you'll be seeing lots more of my photography on this blog soon.

There's nothing I love more than a hike in the woods with my camera. I love being lost in the sheer beauty and silence of the wooded hillsides of Kentucky. I relate to much of what Thomas Merton writes about nature. It always stirs something deep within me. Those hours in the woods I spend hiking are prayerful times for me as I know they were for Fr. Louis. I pray to God sometimes vocally but many times simply by using my camera to capture the beauty that surrounds me.

So, that's it. A weather update from Lexington, KY and a few musings on photography.