Habitat for Humanity

This weekend, through PAC,  I had the opportunity to do a volunteer photo shoot at a Habitat for Humanity building site.  The project is still in it's early stages so there were walls going up and lots of hammering going on.  It was a perfect day to be outside and a perfect reason for all of us to come together.

These are the future homeowners, Mbonimpa and Erick

Chuck, one of the many volunteers

On this day, they blessed the house and the volunteers wrote on the beams.

Mbonimpa and Erick escaped the civil wars of the Congo in Tanzania and brought their children, Irumua and Lisa, to AZ.

Working Together

Leigh "Dawg" and Dale

"Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless."  ~Sherry Anderson

 "No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another."   ~Author Unknown

Snow in Sedona 2014

This blog is few words, lots of photos.  As usual, I had a difficult time capturing the true beauty of Sedona.  It's definitely to be viewed in person!  But here are my best efforts:

Oak Creek Canyon

Snow on the tree

Leaves in the water

Snow on the red rocks of Sedona

Snow on the Agave

View from our hotel

View from our room

Great moon

Dusk at our hotel

Local wine in plastic hotel cups

Red berries covered in ice

Bird outside the window

Chimney Rock in the center

Happy Cyrus!

Cy and Eric

Chimney Rock

Snow covered nose

Ice on the trees

Ice covered prickly pear

Icy Agave

Cabin in the foreground of Cathedral Rock

B&W Ice

Eric and Cy along the creek

Cairn "garden"

Ice covered cairn

Icicles on a tree branch

Chapel of the Holy Cross

Chapel of the Holy Cross

"Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us."  ~Hal Borland