A worn Dictionary

Last week while I was doing some studies, I found myself using an old dictionary that was to neat to not take pictures of!! It is a 1950's Mariam International Dictionary Second Edition. 

Laugh, what a great word to take a picture of!!

Pretty old but allot of fun to snap a few pictures of!!  I Love the swirl designs on the side of the pages!

~RebeccA.

The Quotable Lewis

Thoughts on Priorities:

"You can't get second things by putting them first; you can get second things only by putting first things first."

And

"Put first things first and we get second things thrown in, put second things in and we loose both first and second things." ~C.S. Lewis from Letters of C.S. Lewis

It is easy, when you have lots to do, to mix up the order in which you plan out your day. These two quotes are a reminder to me to take the first things that need to be done and do them. Then to move on to the next. This will not only help your day or pans go smoothly but will in the long run get the things that need to come first, actually be done first!

~RebeccA. 

The Quotable Lewis

I was going through my books the other day and found my book, "The Quotable Lewis" which have quotes from C.S. Lewis's books and essays that he wrote through out his life. So I though that it would be nice to go through the book and find quotes that I like and then make some comments of my own. So for the first one I found under the title of Grace. Lewis says:

" God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to recevie them" From Taliessin through Logress 1948.

Also on the same subject, St. Augustine says "God gives where He finds empty hands" A man whose hands are full of parcels can't recive a gift"- From Letters to an American Lady 1958.

I love these quotes because they are a reminder not to have our "hands" too full for God to fill them. That we should always be ready to have God fill our hands in any stage of life, for He can place something unexpected in them.

Stay tuned for next weeks Lewis Quote! :)

~RebeccA.

A Trip to the new Library!!

Yesterday I had the time to go down to the new Library down town!! And since I was able to bring my trusty camera, I snapped a few lot of photos around the neat place. I will give you a little tour guide around the place with the pictures I captured!



The front sign... in GREEN!

 

The front door and front of the building.... four stories HIGH!

This is shot from above, but gives you a glimpse of what the entrance way looks like.

On the stair well, looking up you see what each floor consist of... neat huh?

I LOVE this photo!! This is looking up along a wall in the entrance way.

On the first floor is the main computer area, magazines, holds, coffee shop and the main desk.

Second floor, is the Children's area... with this play area, which I even thought was cool!! (I kinda felt weird looking around with out a little one near by and everyone looking at me taking pictures... but oh well it was fun!!)

I thought these tables were really cool... they had the alphabet with holes of different things sealed inside them... A is for Ant, B for Buttons!!

Then they had these funnel/ indoor play areas like this one, was a kitchen. Like you can see the funnel thing had all different things in them. It was neat to see the light through them!!

Like this... forks and spoons, flowers and shapes. This was in the one seen in the above picture.

The next floor was an office area so I wasn't/ didn't want to go in there. The next floor was the Non- fiction. What I love about this library is there was tons of seating to read or tables and chairs for working on the computer and what not!!

When you look up in an area of the 3rd floor, you see these neat lights!!

On the Non-fiction I found sewing, knitting, sheet music books... I think I spent most of my browsing for books on this floor!!

NOW... the fourth floor, I didn't get much of the inside, because I was too busy taking all of these pictures out side on the DECK!!! It was so nice to step out side, look at the view, read your book in the sun, and feel the slight breeze!! It was so nice!!

Of course I had to take a bunch of photos out side...

Okay back inside, on the 4th floor still, I found a place to sit and do some work on the laptop. (remember the view from the 3rd floor looking up at these lights?)

All round you saw people like this doing work on the computer.... and I thought it this particular guy sitting down the way from were I was looked like a perfect victim for my photo of some one working!!

And here is my lovely computer. Oh and the head phones... cant forget those!!

I was a bit board and snapped this on of me while working on my paper.

Well there you have it.... a post FULL of photos of my fun at the library!! I hope I was able to give you a glimpse of what the neat place looks like.  :)
Thanks for reading!! ~RebeccA.