This week’s photo challenge was candlelight and this candle is one of my favorites! 

For more candlelight photo challenge photos, click on the Round Robin below!

Fall Into Reading 2008 is now under way!  Here is my present list for this fall, which is subject to change frequently especially in the next couple of days after visiting all the other participants! 🙂 

Non Fiction –

1. Practical Theology for Women – by Wendy Horger Alsup
2. Jesus – The Greatest Life of All – by Charles R Swindoll
3. Walking with God – by John Eldredge
4. The Complete Guide to the Parables – by Dr. R. T. Kendall

Fiction –

1. The Shack by William P Young
2. The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
3. The Legend of Holly Claus by Brittney Ryan
4. The Bird in the Tree by Elizabeth Goudge
5. The Heart of the Family by Elizabeth Goudge
6. The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter series by Susan Wittig Albert

That should keep me busy!  Can’t wait to see everyone elses’ lists!

Head on over to Callapider Days for more Reading Lists!

Today I would like to invite you to come with me to Rhode Island.  Hubby and I found this very cool lighthouse as we were driving around exploring.  Love the lighthouse, but I was more intrigued by this little building across from the lighthouse. 

This building was the inspiration for a story that I made up for my great nephew about a giant who lived in a tiny tiny house and a tiny little man who lived in a big big house.

For more Opening Doors, head on over to Heaven in Belgium!

For today’s Opening Doors photo, I am taking you to Florence, Italy to see the Brass Doors at the Baptistery of San Giovanni (Baptistry of St. John).  This is one of the oldest buildings in the city and the Italian poet, Dante, was baptized here.

 And what is behind these magnificent doors that Michelangelo called the Gates of Paradise?

This famous mosaic ceiling.  You can read about the ceiling here.  It truly was remarkable to behold!

For more Opening Doors, head on over to Jientje’s at Heaven in Belgium.

Smiling Sally is starting a Blue Monday post.  Here is what she says…

 

Every Monday, I’ll have a blue post, and I’d like to invite you to participate. To participate all you need do is:

1. Post about something blue. It can be pretty, ugly, funny, old, or new as long as it’s blue.

2. Drag the Blue Monday button from here and place it on your blog.

3. Return here and leave your name (it can be a first name or a code name), your URL (blog address) in the comment area.

4. Visit other blue participants by clicking on their links.

Sound like fun? Gather up your blue items and we’ll play together.  

To start my first Blue Monday. here is a blue bouquet for you…

Now head on over to Smiling Sally’s and check out some more Blue Monday posts!