Melissa's pictures

2006-07-07T10:29:00.000-07:00

2006-07-07T10:27:00.000-07:00

The lions were sleeping...

2006-07-07T10:26:00.000-07:00

Monkeys... through the glass, so the pictures weren't the greatest... they were fun to watch though.

2006-07-07T10:25:00.000-07:00

2006-07-07T10:23:00.000-07:00

Crocodiles... through the glass... at first they almost didn't look real to me but then one of them kept opening and closing his eye...

2006-07-07T10:21:00.000-07:00

Elephants...

2006-07-07T10:18:00.000-07:00

Rhino...

2006-07-07T10:16:00.000-07:00

I forget what this one is called...

2006-07-07T10:15:00.000-07:00

Hippos...

2006-07-07T10:13:00.000-07:00

Tortoises... everyone was calling them turtles; they look like really big turtles :)

2006-07-07T10:09:00.001-07:00

Stephanie and I went in the "Safari"; you can't really tell but inside the windows there are three cars that people can go in and go on a "safari" and pretend they are driving through the jungle. She "made" me drive; teasing me that I needed practise =p

2006-07-07T10:09:00.000-07:00

Fountain...

2006-07-07T10:08:00.000-07:00

Some random animals...

2006-07-07T10:03:00.000-07:00

July 6, 2006.

Some bats at the Philadelphia Zoo.

2006-07-07T09:58:00.000-07:00

Just some pictures from Denville... July 3, 2006

A dragon fly...

A pond I often go visit when I am in Denville...

Watching the geese...

The sun was pretty...

2006-07-07T09:54:00.000-07:00

Sunday, July 2, 2006.

I went hiking at a park in Chappaqua with the friend I was visiting and the little girl she is currently a nanny for.

2006-07-03T08:35:00.000-07:00

The Mom of the family with seven children that I visited last week gave me this bracelet as a gift. There are seven of the squares on it; I was saying there was one for each girl in the family since there is the Mom, her five daughters, and the oldest daughter's baby girl. :)

2006-06-29T12:37:00.000-07:00

An interesting sight in Chappaqua, New York...

2006-06-29T12:34:00.000-07:00

2006-06-29T12:28:00.000-07:00

The two little girls I got the shirts for gave my friend Stephanie and I their room for the time we were staying at their house, and here was their welcome sign. I ended up sleeping in the same room as them, though, so Stephanie got the big bed all to herself. :)

2006-06-29T10:55:00.000-07:00

In December 2005, just before I left Denville, this is how much snow they got one morning... this car was almost completely buried!

2006-06-29T10:53:00.000-07:00

Playing the chimes...

2006-06-29T10:52:00.000-07:00

2006-06-29T10:50:00.000-07:00

Here's the grey kitty! :)

2006-06-29T10:48:00.000-07:00

There were actually five in this litter - the fifth was not white, but striped and grey! :)

2006-06-29T10:47:00.000-07:00

The one in the middle had one green eye and one blue eye...

2006-06-29T10:45:00.000-07:00

This is my cat when he was just a kitten... :)

2006-06-29T10:43:00.000-07:00

Another sunrise on the St. Laurence River... (taken in Quebec, 2005)

2006-06-29T10:42:00.000-07:00

Some of my cat's "half siblings" (they're from the mother cat's second litter...)

2006-06-29T10:37:00.000-07:00

Thanks to this rather gentle dog I got my exercise while I was in Calgary - in extremely cold weather, too!

2006-06-29T10:34:00.000-07:00

Just a few pictures of the Canadian Rockies...

2006-06-29T10:30:00.000-07:00

My youngest sister drew a picture of a plane and marked off the day I was scheduled to come home from Calgary in her school agenda. :)

2006-06-29T10:28:00.000-07:00

If you are not hearing from me or are getting strange messages, now you know why... ;o)

2006-06-29T10:21:00.000-07:00

2006-06-29T09:50:00.000-07:00

Silly cat :)

2006-06-29T09:38:00.000-07:00

This one is a sunrise over the St. Laurence River on May 2006.

"O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, nad hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas. O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!" Psalm 8:1-9

2006-06-29T09:30:00.000-07:00

I love watching ants. It's amazing to watch them carry something five times their size. The other day I was watching another one trying to pick up a dead bumblebee but he didn't succeed. Still, it was amazing to watch him refusing to give up for so long. Nearby, another ant was carrying another ant that was either dead or sick. He kept dropping the wounded ant, but he would crawl away and then right back and pick the wounded ant right back up. I got pictures of those too. :)

"There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise: The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer; The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks; The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands; The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces." Proverbs 30:24-28

2006-06-29T09:25:00.000-07:00

I took a great many pictures of the sunset over Andrew Haydon Park. Here is one of them.

"The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard." Psalm 19:1-3

2006-06-29T09:19:00.000-07:00

This was also taken that same day at Andrew Haydon Park.

All the little ducklings would constantly remain near the big ones. I kept thinking of how God's children must remain near Him.

"Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded." James 4:8

2006-06-29T09:16:00.000-07:00

A couple of months ago I took two of my siblings to Andrew Haydon Park and they got together with a bunch of other children there who were trying to catch frogs and turtles, and they caught this big guy.

2006-06-29T09:12:00.000-07:00

This is the ice cream cake my siblings got me for my 24th birthday. It looks like it's only vanilla but there was lots of chocolate underneath!

2006-06-29T09:00:00.000-07:00

This is my cat just as I was starting to pack for my latest trip. He always jumps right in the suitcase. But he never really gets to come...

2006-06-29T08:48:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone. I am just testing this thing out. These are just three matching shirts that I got for myself and two of the little girls (ages 7 and 9) from a sweet family with seven children that I am close to and just went to visit this past week. I thought they would get a kick out of having the same shirt as me and they did. It was hard to find something matching in both lady's sizes and children's sizes so I just ended up getting the shirts from a store called "The Children's Place" and my shirt is size 14 or X-L in children's sizes. At least that's what it says on the shirt. Anyway, the shirts fit the girls and I really well and looked really pretty on them. :)