Random Acts of Verbiage

It has been a three and a half month hiatus over at Matt Jones Photography but I have finally gotten off my butt and posted again! The new post, An Oregon Sunset was taken during my family vacation (additional photos at Flickr here). I hope to start out updating it every week or so… we [...]

I am back with another Space Saturday. This week I bring you Space Saturday XXI: The NASA edition. On this day, July 29th, back in 1958 the National Aeronautics and Space Administration was created. To celebrate that anniversary I wanted to share a few photos from the most recent shuttle lift off which occured on [...]

EmilyOriginally uploaded by mattithyahu. Well I think I am finally caught up with picture postings… for now I suppose. Two weekends ago the fam and I drove around to the Olympic Penninsula to John and Nancy’s property in Sequim for a family get together and birthday celebration! It was a lot of fun to see [...]

Whilst blog browsing, I came across a post from last week: Stop World Jump Day Before It’s Too Late. I must be out of the loop or something because I had never heard of this. Reading that post made me think two things: either 1) people are complete idiots, or 2) it is a hoax. [...]

Me @ Mount BakerOriginally uploaded by mattithyahu. Kevin and Hermann GunkelHermann Gunkel (the squirrel,not the German theologian)followed us around all day.Originally uploaded by mattithyahu. The week after I got back to Bellingham Katie was still around and invited me to go hiking with her and the Goldsberrys up Heliotrope Ridge Trail to see Coleman glacier [...]

I finally picked up a book by C.S. Lewis that I have been wanting to read for a number of years. It is the first in his Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet. Lewis’ imagination was obviously apparent in his Chronicles of Narnia but I think is more fully expressed in his creation as [...]