Happy Birthday dear Mother!

I guess words cannot describe what my mother means to me. Beautiful. Loving. Very kind. A gentle mother whose done her job willingly! Have  a wonderful year Mom!

Thoughtful

When God resides we stop and meditate upon the truths of his precepts.

 

Blue and Green

A sheet of blue and a puff of white, with a tall, green pine tree to set it all off.

A Morning There

Sunlight flickers across the upper courtyard of Headquarters, and warms a few spots in its earliest beams. Here I often check my email and await the coming of the day when I am in Guatemala City.

To Fly

Sharp and at the ready.

Yesterday’s flight to the Petén was delayed a couple hours due to heavy fog. When the tower finally cleared everyone to taxi we made it to zero-one before everyone else, but had to wait for all the airlines to take off first. We allowed probably fifteen aircraft to take off before we were finally cleared.

Grounded

Years ago a MAM pilot tried to take off, realized it wasn’t going to work, and tried to abort –only to go past the end of the runway and over the side of a cliff. Miraculously everyone  survived (a tree caught them). This is a picture of the fuselage of that airplane… and in the second picture our current mission pilot tries heroically to get it off the ground. 

Focus

Moonlight on the windmill pulls your eyes towards one place –and there you focus.