Where on earth have I been in the last five or six months? All over the place, if your idea of “all over the place” is nearly the whole northwestern quarter of the United States. You know you want to see some pictures, so here you go.
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- Bike in Missoula
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- Moon over Missoula
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- Fog on the mountains
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- Fog on the mountains, with tamaracks
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- Mountain rain
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- Down icy slopes
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- Planes on a train
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- Rattlesnakes have been observed. Please stay on the sidewalks
I was in western Washington three times between Christmas and Easter. Sometimes scheduling services just works like that. Once when I went, I got to take Highway 12 between Lolo, Montana, where my mom lives, and Napavine, Washington, where my sister lives, with two services along the way, and it was a truly magnificent drive.
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- A waterfall at the top of Highway 12.
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- The road at the edge of the mountain
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- Foggy Mount Rainier from afar
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- The Washington Palisades
In Washington, I got to stay with my sister, her husband, and their three rapidly-growing children each time I went, which is grand, because once I’m gone to Europe, I won’t get to see them in person. While there I conducted three (or four?) international teas with various groups at various churches and had a number of church services as well and a number of exquisite drives around northwestern Washington.
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- Driving around Puget Sound in the misty dawn
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- The chilly north-Washington beach in March
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- Sand Dollar, unspendable
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- Sand dollar view
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- Sand dollar view
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- Sand dollar view
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- An alien city (or a sand dollar)
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- Lavender and grey
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- The chilly north-Washington beach in March
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- Tea and flan at a Filipino restaurant
In March I went directly from Washington to South Dakota, where I spent a month traveling around to church services and staying between them with dear old professorial friends from Trinity in Ellendale, North Dakota, five miles north of the South Dakota border. I adore the Dakotas, and I was there just in time to see the immigration of massive flocks of birds, mostly geese. What an enchanting place.
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- A lonely barn
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- Flocks of birds in flight
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- Flocks of birds in flight
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- South Dakota countryside
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- Deer running across South Dakota fields
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- Massive flocks of snow geese
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- Massive flocks of snow geese
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- Eagles on a tiny frozen lake
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- The Sioux Falls, in Sioux Falls, SD
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- Farm swallowed by a lake
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- A South Dakota country church
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- The Corn Palace in Mitchell, SD
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- South Dakota Sunset
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- South Dakota Sunset
After South Dakota, I had three district councils in a row, in North Dakota, Montana, and Idaho, where various ministry friends assisted me greatly by introducing me to loads of pastors. One of my weaknesses is in the area of networking, so I subsidized my lack by asking other people to help, and that worked beautifully. It was also very exhausting.
In a little over a week, I am off to Nebraska, where I have a month of services lined up. After that, who knows. Please pray that I’ll get July filled up with services. But pray especially that God’s plan will be accomplished throughout all of this and that both I and AGWM will have the patience to let His plan be what He wants it to be.
