First Snow//Right Now

The first snow is happening, right now.

Snow makes whiteness where it falls,
The bushes look like popcorn balls.
The places where I always play,
Look like somewhere else today.

~Mary Louise Allen

First snow to wash the autumn dust
First white to clean the gold
First beauty, only days to last
First change to fresh the old

 First light to kiss the gloomy day
First soft to mild the lawn
First clean to wash the dusty way
First cool to touch the dawn

 First pure to resurrect the sky
First soft to feel the sea
First dream to make the movement die
First snow to live in me.

First Snow from this website. 

Goodbye my beautiful flowers, until next year.

I'll miss you, but I'll survive.

Come back soon!

Goodbye perfect, round pumpkin.

I never carved you, but you looked pretty anyway.

Stay pretty for as long as you can.

I enjoy looking at you.

Goodbye, garden.

I enjoyed your yummy, delicious fruits and veggies.

For now, I'll plan out what to plant on you next year.

Hello, beautiful snow!

You are so pretty, but please don't hurt us.

Keep your beauty, but do not get in our way.

I'll enjoy you for while, but soon, your beauty will be gone,

and I'll be upset,

Hello snow, hi.

Have you gotten snow yet?

When You're Stopped For 20 Minutes Because of a Train

Haha! I love my title. :-) Okay, I'm done laughing now.

 Pretty fall colors!!!

 Leaves.

 I took a few pictures of these burrs because I got bokeh in every one! Yes! I love it when that happens because I have a point and shoot and it doesn't happen very often.

 Yeah, so as the title said, my mom and I were waiting at least 20 minutes before we could go past a railroad track. We were on our way to my brother's half marathon. We parked and then we had to walk the rest of the way.

 Okay, so I took a lot of pictures of the burrs. :D

 The sun was just beautiful!

 And here is the train that we waited for... for a long time.

 It was worth the wait, when you get these awesome pictures, and then you could walk across the railroad track and get a cool picture like the one below.

Which one is your favorite?

Bible Verse of the Week #24

"They do not say to the themselves, 'Let us fear the Lord our God who gives autumn and spring rains in season, who assures us of the regular harvest.' Your wrong doings have kept this away; your sins have deprived you of good." ~Jeremiah 5:24-25

I like this verse because it talks briefly about autumn. Not very often do I find Bible verses about certain seasons of the year. I believe that this verse is telling us to believe in the Lord because He will be there, no matter where we are, whether at work, school, on the playground, or harvesting grain. I don't live in Texas where there's hardly any rain, but this verse assures us that God will make it work for you. He will send you peace in times of trouble, water in the time of thirst, and food in the time of hunger. 

I sometimes put myself down because my photography is just me being an amateur. I can put myself down like that or pray to God and ask Him if I should continue to love photography. Today I pulled out my camera on a field trip and I started looking through my old pictures that I haven't uploaded yet. This guy from my class was sitting next to me (because we were waiting for a show to start) and started looking at all of the photos that I've taken. He said that he really liked them and I should sell them at an art show. Haha, like I'll do that, but it's a really nice compliment considering the photos that I showed him weren't the best of my work.

What I was trying to get to with that is that just because you aren't the best, doesn't mean that you should give up. God provides for you, just like he provides rain in the verses. Be thankful for what you have!