Boating on the Huntington Harbor, Huntington Beach, CA

Yet another boating excursion; boring (yawn)! And I don't swim!

See me swimming? Love the water.
C'mon in, Precious, the water is nice!

On the USS Midway, San Diego, CA

What Was His Line?

He sat next to me in the Amtrak Business Class northbound from San Diego on Friday, 16 May 2014.

His was and is well known in DC and the space technology community. Can you name him?

Books Read May 2014

Fiction Western - William W. Johnstone, "Hell Town"

Non-Fiction - Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, "The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: an English Professor's Journey into Christian Faith"

I am think of doing a book review on this tenured post-modern English professor's testimony of her salvation.

Book Read in April 2014

Fiction Thriller - Vince Flynn, "Transfer of Power."

One Day in May, In Apple Blossom Time

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The Andrew Sisters (1941)
- I'll Be with You in Apple Blossom Time

À Toi la Gloire (Thine Be the Glory)

À Toi la Gloire (Thine Be the Glory)

Words: Edmond L. Budry, 1884
Tr.: Richard B. Hoyle, 1923.
Music: G.F. Handel,
Chorus of "See, the Conqu'ring Hero Comes"
from the Oratorio "Judas Maccabaeus" (HWV 63), 1747


Thine be the glory, risen, conqu’ring Son;
Endless is the victory, Thou o’er death hast won;
Angels in bright raiment rolled the stone away,
Kept the folded grave clothes where Thy body lay.

Refrain
Thine be the glory, risen conqu’ring Son,
Endless is the vict’ry, Thou o’er death hast won.

Lo! Jesus meets us, risen from the tomb;
Lovingly He greets us, scatters fear and gloom;
Let the Church with gladness, hymns of triumph sing;
For her Lord now liveth, death hath lost its sting.

Refrain
Thine be the glory, risen conqu’ring Son,
Endless is the vict’ry, Thou o’er death hast won.

No more we doubt Thee, glorious Prince of life;
Life is naught without Thee; aid us in our strife;
Make us more than conqu’rors, through Thy deathless love:
Bring us safe through Jordan to Thy home above.

Refrain
Thine be the glory, risen conqu’ring Son,
Endless is the vict’ry, Thou o’er death hast won.



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More Spring Flowers - 17 April 2014

All in the April Evening

This Thursday evening, the Bible recorded Jesus celebrated His Last Supper with the disciples. Later on this same night, He went to Gethsemane and prayed three times that the Father's will be done. Then He was arrested. Jesus was crucifixion on Friday. His resurrection was on Sunday next. Thus, through death and resurrection, Jesus secures both the spiritual life and future resurrection of all who believed.

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." (John 3:16 KJV)

Sir Hugh Roberton (1874-1952) wrote a four-voice and piano accompaniment setting, "All in An April Evening" to Irish poet-writer Katharine Tynan Hinkson's poem, "Sheep and Lambs."

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Royal Ballet Sinfonia (1999)
Orchestral arrangement:
- All in the April Evening (Hinkson, arr. Lane)


Sheep and Lambs
Katharine Tynan Hinkson (1861 - 1931)

All in the April evening
April airs were abroad;
The sheep with their little lambs
Passed me by on the road.

The sheep with their little lambs
Passed me by on the road;
All in the April evening
I thought on the Lamb of God.

The lambs were weary and crying
With a weak, human cry.
I thought on the Lamb of God
Going meekly to die.

Up in the blue, blue mountains
Dewy pastures are sweet;
Rest for the little bodies,
Rest for the little feet.

But for the Lamb of God,
Up on the hill-top green,
Only a cross of shame
Two stark crosses between.

All in the April evening,
April airs were abroad;
I saw the sheep with their lambs,
And thought on the Lamb of God.

Setting Sun, and Flowers, and Sundial! Oh, My!

It was one of those rarest of rare "Oh, my!" photo opportunities. Here is an iPhone 5s picture capturing that fleeting moment in the garden earlier on this April evening.