The header images rotate automatically. All of them are either by me, or photos of me.

The facade of the Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Nashville, home of the Nashville Symphony. I was there on opening night in September 2006.

Here I am on the pier in Huntington Beach, Calif., while visiting my brother and sister-in-law and the kids in February 2007.

These bells are at the mission at San Juan Capistrano, Calif., taken during my February 2007 trip to California.

This is the locomotive that pulls an excursion train along the Hiwassee River from Etowah, Tenn., which I rode in August 2007.

This image, which was the permanent header for several previous themes, is from a photo of kids playing with a parachute during a Mountain T.O.P. Kaleidoscope camp at Cumberland Pines in 2006. See the full photo here.

This image was taken while on safari at Masai Mara National Wildlife Refuge in Kenya at the end of my short-term mission trip there in 2004. Kylene McDonald, who’s a better photographer and has a better camera, also took a similar shot of this sky.

I attended the Gold Edition (a smaller, single-ring version) of the Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus at Calsonic Arena in February 2007 with my family. They gave out these blinking clown noses.

This elephant photo is from the safari at the end of one of my Kenya trips — but I didn’t write down which one when I posted it. I will update this page when I eventually figure out whether this was from 2004 (Masai Mara), 2005 (Tsavo West) or 2006 (Masai Mara).

In June 2007, I got to take a media flight on the Liberty Belle, a restored B-17 Flying Fortress. Here she is on the tarmac at Smyrna Airport before our flight.

I saw these mountains from the drive up to the Inca-Rakay ruins near Cochabamba, Bolivia, during a mission trip there in June 2007.

While riding the Hiwassee River Excursion Train, I saw this kayaker waving up at us on the train.

During the in-country training for our 2005 short term mission trip to Kenya, we spent a couple of nights at a retreat facility in Kisii Town. Someone (I think it was Gail Drake or Kylene McDonald) took this photo of me journaling.

This was some of the food offered for sale at an outdoor market in Cochabamba, Bolivia, when Debra Snellen and I took a mission trip there in June and July 2007.

This image, which is featured on the official web site T-shirt, was taken on my birthday, May 8, 2007, from the Interstate 24 rest area on Nickajack Lake. I was on my way to Chattanooga with members of our school board for a site visit; I later won a statewide award for the story I wrote based on that trip.

These are the orphans who lived at the church where we ministered in Ndonyo, Kenya, in 2005.

The Kisii region of Kenya, where I worked in 2005 and 2006, is famous for the soapstone that is mined there, which is turned into carvings like these. This assortment was from a store near Kisii Town, Kenya, which we visited in 2005.

In 2006, I won a flight over Shelbyville as a door prize at our Times-Gazette company picnic. I took this aerial view of the Shelbyville town square during that flight.

This abstract shot was taken from my parents’ van as we headed back to Shelbyville from Columbia, where we had been Christmas shopping with my sister and her children in December 2006.