Christmas 2024

 

Merry Christmas and a very Blessed and Happy 2025!

Aria: A 2nd Great Grandchild!

Humble Blogger Dave and Loving Wife
Rose Pose with Max the Moose

Luminaria Leading Up to Our Townhome

Autumn 2024

 Autumn Photos from on or near Lake avenue in White Bear Lake MN.  A warm, long Autumn has led to gradual color changes producing a lot of red and gold trees.  The top photo is a Halloween display in the yard of a home whose owners have always enjoyed the day. 

Independence Day 2024

Vacation Cabin on Serpent Lake, Deerwood, MN

Display in cavity of Tree Trunk by White Bear Lake in White Bear Lake, MN

Spring 2024

After a no-snow winter, the blossoming signs of Spring are finally here in White Bear Lake, MN with White Bear Lake very nearby. Lilacs have not yet emerged in full bloom. 

Easter Monday

 

Jesus is here now and forever!
(Photo 13776442 © Astankino | Dreamstime.com)

What is that bright light?

I always hoped you would ask.

"I am" who loves you!

Easter Sunday

 

The empty tomb.  He is Risen!!
(Photo 213614411 © Yuliia Chyzhevska | Dreamstime.com)

"When the sabbath was over, Mary of Magdala, Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices with which to go and anoint him. And very early in the morning on the first day of the week they went to the tomb, just as the sun was rising. They had been saying to one another, ‘Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?' But when they looked they could see that the stone, which was very big-had already been rolled back. On entering the tomb they saw a young man in a white robe seated on the right-hand side, and they were struck with amazement. But he said to them, ‘There is no need for alarm. You are looking for Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified: he has risen, he is not here. See, here is the place where they laid him. But you must go and tell his disciples and Peter, "He is going before you to Galilee; it is there you will see him, just as he told you”.’ And the women came out and ran away from the tomb because they were frightened out of their wits; and they said nothing to a soul for they were afraid. (Mark 16:1-8)

Note: Scripture passage is from the  Jerusalem Bible copyright 1966 by Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd and Doubleday & Company, Inc. Garden City, New York,

Good Friday 2024

 

Jesus dies on a cross for all humanity
(The Crucifixion painted by Jean Baptiste van Eycken (1809-1853) in Notre Dame
de la Chapelle Photo 43692875 © Jozef Sedmak | Dreamstime.com)

They then took charge of Jesus, and carrying his own cross he went out of the city to the place of the skull or, as it was called in Hebrew, Golgotha, where they crucified him with two others, one on either side with Jesus in the middle. Pilate wrote out a notice and had it fixed to the cross; it ran: ‘Jesus  the Nazarene, King of the Jews’. This notice was read by many of the Jews, because the place where Jesus was crucified was not far from the city, and the writing was in Hebrew, Latin and Greek. So the Jewish chief priests said to Pilate, ‘You should not write “King of the Jews”, but “This man said: I am King of the Jews”’. -Pilate answered, ‘What 1 have written, I have written’. (John 19:17:22)

Note: Scripture passage is from the Jerusalem Bible copyright 1966 by Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd and Doubleday & Company, Inc. Garden City, New York,