Christy Joy is a Nurse!

A Compliment

"This seems a cheerful world, Donatus, when I view it from this fair garden. . . But if I climbed some great mountain and looked out . . . you know very well what I would see; brigands on the high road, pirates on the seas, in the amphitheaters men murdered to please the applauding crowds. . . .

Yet in the midst of it, I have found a quiet and holy people. . . . They are despised and persecuted, but they care not. They have overcome the world. These people, Donatus, are Christians. . . ."

St. Cyprian ~ 3rd Century

On the 3rd Day of Playing Cello

Swift Water Rescue

Rescue senarios at the Nantahala in North Carolina

Divine Whisper

"Surely now you know I'm dirty."

"Surely now you know I love you."

And sunlight fills my lungs.

For Emily Knott

An Artist's Prayer



I breath in black,

Hear in white.

My sight is numbed

To shades of night.



My heart is grey,

Scetched in graphite.

Taste of Charcoal

Smudges light.



Penciled grey,

Precise, alone.

Soft goose down

Safe as stone.



Erase my limits,

Alter my hues.

Blend dimensions

Into my veiw.



Blush me with

Your scented rain.

Shenandoah Nostalgia

Remembering... "two roads diverged in a yellow wood"






View from the Blue Ridge Mountains after hiking up from the Gap.






The Harleys - My Heart Family :)



The Quarry







Supper from the Orchard



I took the Road less traveled by....



 And that has made all the difference.