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We had an amazing evening that night, and capturing the Michigan Ave Bridge raised was the icing on the cake. The blue hour light perfectly tied everything together. Enjoy!
Wayback Machine - Summer, 1947
Do the ideals of our youth ever truly disappear through the years? The times where our pure enthusiasm for each day... our longing for adventure... could be quenched by an afternoon spent outdoors, down a dusty mountain road at the shore of a lake, laughing with our friends.
Do they fade away like the twilight?... or do they continue to linger like the light in this photograph?... still shining brightly today, just as the sun burned down through the trees on my mom and her friends on this late summer afternoon so many years ago.
I look at these kids of years gone by.... and I see life's eternal young Americans. I see something that still lives in all of us.
that's from The boy in the striped pyjama from John Boyne. We're reading it in english class..... and this picture made me think of that.
i'm a day behind :D i'll catch up tomorrow . i think.
sorry , i haven't really commented and looked all of you photos these past few day. but i had to study for a test , i had that test today :S it was after schooll..... and it was sooo soo sunny :'( but yeeh for the sun. tomorrow it's gonna be bad weather again! blehh
bye. X
Simchat Torah celebrates the annual completion of reading the Torah. We all danced around the synagogue with Torahs in our arms. Our synagogue also still has individual scrolls of each of the five books, which some consider obsolete, but we included them in the celebration anyway.
For the services, The Girl and her friend sat in front, as did I and the friend’s mom (along with her son). Hubs and the grandmother of the friend sat behind us. The girls were very well behaved. I’m glad to see Sunday school is paying off. :)
Before the start of the service, the Cantor came over to ask one of us to light the Shabbat candles. I said, “Oh, come on. We were brave enough to sit in front. Can’t you leave us alone?” We all laughed. And I ended up lighting the candles.
This service was supposed to be kid-centered, but Cantor just couldn’t leave stuff out. We danced far more than 7 dances with the Torahs. I will say, The Girl was very cute as she held one. After dancing for a looooooong time, we finally go to the Torah reading. Being that it was the last reading of the Torah, Cantor insisted on unrolling and re-rolling “the whole megillah.” By that time, it was after 8:30. The kids were out of their minds overtired. Many of us grownups were as well.
Anyway, when that was finally done, the new kids of the congregation were blessed under a talit (Hubs even held a corner) on the bimah. Then they got their own miniature Torahs. Finally, the big Torah was dressed, Kiddush was said, and we concluded with challah, apples, pastries, cake, and of course, wine. As a bonus, one of the members had made vodka with last year’s etrog. It was STRONG, but good, though it had an aftertaste not unlike Pledge.
It was a long night, but I’m glad we went.
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Source: Wikipedia
Mission Santa Clara de Asís is a Spanish mission founded by the Franciscan order in the present-day city of Santa Clara, California.
The mission, the eighth in California, was founded on January 12, 1777, Santa Clara University is built around the mission