Ladd Bjorneby

I've been wearing Marmot rain pants for several years, and they're great.

Retired ELCA pastor here, ordained forty years ago. I've never heard of Advent beginning before the First Sunday of Advent. It's sometimes referred to informally as the New Year's Day of the church calendar, and my pastor remarked about that last Sunday. This question is new to me.

Maple in Manito Park, Spokane

As I hear my cat running down the hallway and talking out the window, I remember that he's already ten years old. They're such a part of our homes, our family, our lives.

Wow

Brilliant sunset

The sun set at the edge of a thunderstorm tonight.

Painting of Bryce Canyon and pine forest in the distance

Just finished a watercolor based on photos I took in Bryce Canyon in May. I enjoy the challenge of trying to create a sense of depth in a landscape. The mat and frame are simulated. #watercolor #landscapepainting

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I've been a Lutheran pastor for forty years. No one whines, complains and apologizes for their church like Lutherans have. Yes, it has been destructive.

If it's Morton, that's very much western Washington, directly south of Seattle.

A bright composite wildflower

Blanketflower, a wildflower, blooms in June in the Saltese Uplands.

Asahel Curtis Nature Trail

Pondering my recent trip to Zion, remembering the Timber Creek Trail

Three flowering stalks of lupine and leaves

Lupine Along the River
#wildflowers

Ordained forty years ago, the conversation I heard then in most congregations was (already) how much better things were twenty years before, that being 1965.

Trail through flowers toward a monolith

Monolith

Polemonium growing on a monolith

Rocks of Sharon Hike

Arrowleaf balsamroot is our local icon of spring, blooming where it has for millennia. #wildflower

Saturday, April 19, 2025

A devotion I wrote:
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Waterfall

Upper Falls, Spokane River

This area's iconic wildflower, arrowleaf balsamroot, is just beginning to bloom.

There was a fun band at the protest in Spokane today.

About five thousand gathered in Clark Park in Spokane for the #handsoff protest today. People were very respectful including of a small MAGA contingent.

There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers.

Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.

Thanks!

Thank you!

Three Pintail ducks fly over grass with trees in the background

My exercise today was a good three mile walk at Saltese Flats. These Pintail ducks were exercising too.

Yes, she is amazing!
Thanks, I plan to try!

Thank you!

I'm one of Karen Leigh's students from almost fifty years ago at FVCC. Two of my pieces have been in the Montana Watercolor Society shows in recent years, but I haven't made it over to see the shows.

They nest near my kids' home in Snohomish County and we're always watching for them. This one is painted from photos I took in Montana. The white spot above the eye gives it away as an inland bird.