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Christmas in March

'Light the Christmas tree' --

Christmas trees that never made it to market

Trees sacrificed to Father Christmas?

Oh. And try to relax about the global warming stuff, OK?

The whole man-made hoax has (apparently) been exposed.

So let’s stomp a big carbon footprint.

🙄

PS: Those are trees that never made it to market. The field must be cleared for a new planting. So there’s a crew out there right now, torching piles of cut Christmas trees. Maybe I should start an Adopt-a-Christmas-Tree-in-the-Ground program. For $5 a month per tree, I’ll maintain a transplanted one here on our property somewhere. Hmmm. Must think about that one, we must — you and I….

Yoder: Mid-Winter

So three mornings ago I decided to “share” some Oregon Winter Photos with you. But I’m only getting around to posting them….

Regrettably, I shouldn’t take time to caption them or otherwise comment.

But you may. 😀

These were taken between ten-twelve and ten-fifty-two the morning of Monday, February 22, 2010.

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Warm Springs, Oregon

It’s a neat little town to drive through. We go through it when we go visit our children near Madras.

If you’re from Warm Springs, I challenge you to see the picture I took two or three years ago. I just posted it here.

You might have been there when I took the photo, but nobody will know.

Disclaimer: I doctored the photo added the writing. 🙂

I Got Me a New Nephew

So I featured myself in a nice, impromptu, little photoshoot with some neat props.

Here he is, singing with my niece at their wedding reception this past Saturday afternoon:

Brandon and Karina Boss singing at their reception

Karina and Brandon Boss singing with their youth group

And there they are again:

Brandon and Karina (Roth) Boss with their youth group

Youth group: Hopewell Mennonite Church

And here are his new aunt and cousins (the latter who also served as bride’s maids):

My wife and daughters!

For myself of myself, while the rest of the morning pre-wedding crew was out photographing up a storm, I “snuck” into the reception hall for a little photo shoot of my own:

Mark Roth before Brandon and Karina's reception

Self-Portrait: “Crazy Uncles Belong in the Corner”

Of that last one, original-size copies are available for download for a mere $3 donation. Don’t miss your opportunity to own your own classic.

🙄

Family Blessings

Here’s the photo that we sent along with our Christmas Letter this year:

Photo of the Mark Roth family (12-15-09) -- Dora, Andrew, Ruby, Mark, Michayla

There we are the evening of December 15, 2009!

And here’s the photo we included at the end of that letter:

Photo of our four grandchildren: Juli with her three brothers -- Trenton, Jason, and Trey

Our four grandchildren the morning of November 29, 2009!

I’m Splittin’

I caught the swing plunging to its end.

Maybe eight inches to go.

Swing frozen by the camera

I pressed the shutter release; I swung the axe/maul/whateveritis.

(Photo shot at 12:50 pm Pacific on Friday, December 4, 2009.)

I’m thankful again for all the work and thoughtfulness our children (all seven of them) put into getting us cords and cords of firewood last year!

Vegetable Inspection

One of the main points of this inspection is to test your ability to figure out the identity of the plant which produced each of the following (in)edible items:

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