Hope and light

“…having the eyes of your heart flooded with light, so you can know and understand the hope to which He has called you, and how rich His glorious inheritance is…” (Paul of Tarsus)

Halos at the Irvine District

Abigail and Hannah and I were wandering around The District in Irvine on Friday night (October 3rd) when we bumped into and then enjoyed this groovy local OC band named Halos for a while and I got a little click happy… To the point that I had to bribe the girls with chocolate milk to get them to stay a while longer…

Photos… Photo slideshow…

Guangzhou, China – May 2008

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Old Town Chongqing Revisited

Old Town Chongqing, China as it was captured by my camera on May 6th, 2008:

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the whole chongqing zoo set

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Panda pictures revisited

Here is the whole collection of photos we took of the pandas at the Chongqing zoo when we were there in May…
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Phillips Family Adoption

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