A reliquary at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, University of Notre Dame du Lac, Notre Dame, Indiana, Sunday, July 23, 2006.
Looking up at the inside of the Golden Dome, Administration Building, University of Notre Dame du Lac, Sunday, July 23, 2006.
The Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes, Mount Saint Michael's, Spokane, Washington, Friday, October 13, 2006.
Mr. John Lane, His Excellency Bishop Mark A. Pivarunas, some chap with white hair. Mount Saint Michael's Academy, Friday, October 13, 2006.
A view of Spokane Falls from the Spokane Skyride, Saturday, October 14, 2006.
A view from the City of Mary, Rathdrum, Idaho, Sunday, October 22, 2006.
The front of Mount Saint Michael's, Spokane, Washington.
The main altar, Mount Saint Michael's Church, Spokane, Washington.
A statue of Saint Philomena in Mount Saint Michael's Church, Spokane, Washington.
A friendly Meerkat. Wildlife World Zoo, west of Phoenix, Arizona, November 13, 2006.
Here's looking at you, Mr. Giraffe. Wildlife World Zoo, west of Phoenix, Arizona, November 13, 2006.
Becket, Father Ephrem Cordova's Shih Tzu, Queen of the Holy Rosary Traditional Catholic Church Hall, Saturday, December 16, 2006.
Sister Joseph Marie, O.P. Sister Mary Cabrini, O.P., Father Ephrem Cordova, C.M.R.I., a closed-eye man, Phoenix, Arizona, December 16, 2006.
Christmas in Arizona, Buena Tierra Campground, sixty miles south of Phoenix, Sunday, December 17, 2006.
"Apache," a horse at Buena Tierra Campground, Sunday, December 17, 2006.
A Nativity Scene at Saint Gertude the Great Church, Monday, December 25, 2006.
The statue of the Baby Jesus brought in by His Excellency Bishop Daniel Dolan prior to the Christmas Midnight Mass, 2006.
The main altar at Saint Gertrude the Great Church, Monday, December 25, 2006.
The Sanctuary at Saint Gertude the Great, December 25, 2006.
His Excellency Bishop Dolan, Father Anthnony Cekada, a seminarian from Most Holy Trinity Seminary, December 25, 2006.
Back in Oyster Bay again, January, 2007.
Keeping pace with the Long Island Rail Road, Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Park, Oyster Bay, New York, January, 2007.
Northport Harbor, Northport, New York, January, 2007. Northport was where my mother-in-law, Mrs. Claire Fitzgerald Collins, grew up and where she and her husband, the late John Collins, lived for about ten years after they were married in 1951.
Northport Harbor at Sunset, Northport, New York, January, 2007.
Pepita, New Marlborough, Massachusetts, January 6, 2006.
Pepita checking on me checking the oil in the motor home, New Marlborough, Massachusetts, January 6, 2007. (No, I do not have a "comb-over," thank you. That's what's actually left of my hair on top of my head. Not much.)
Nativity Scene on the property of Our Lady of the Rosary Church, Stepney, Connecticut, January, 2007.
Our Lady of the Rosary Church, Stepney, Connecticut, January, 2007.
Statues of two of the great saints from Lima, Perua, Saint Rose and Saint Martin de Porres, Our Lady of the Rosary Church, Stepney, Connecticut, January, 2007.
A statue of the founder of the Order of Preachers, Saint Dominic de Guzman, Our Lady of the Rosary Church, Stepney, Connecticut, January, 2007.
A statue of the Angelic Doctor, Saint Thomas Aquinas, whose feast day was yesterday, March 7. (Our Lady of the Rosary Church, Stepney, Connecticut.)
Our Lady of the Rosary Church, Stepney, Connecticut, January, 2007.
Statue of Our Lady of Grace, the grounds of Our Lady of Rosary Church, Stepney, Connecticut, January, 2007.
His Excellency Bishop Robert F. McKenna and yours truly, January 25, 2007.
Snow on the grounds of Our Lady of the Rosary Church, Stepney, Connecticut, February 3, 2007, the Feast of Saint Blaise and First Saturday, the day of the death of Mr. John Collins, the father of my dear wife Sharon, the Prodigal Son for whom Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ extended a welcome mat through the priestly hands of Father Denis McMahon.
My editorial comment on snow, Stepney, Connecticut, February 3, 2007.
The only car on the Long Island Expressway sporting snow on its exterior, February 3, 2007.
Sharon insisted that I put include this digital photograph of a second grade photograph in tihis collection of photographs. The only thing that has changed is the loss of hair. The face has remained pretty much the same! Round.
With Father Francis Miller, O.F.M., and our friends in Pensacola, Florida, Monday, February 26, 2007.
A swamp on the grounds of our campground, near Lafayette, Louisiana, February, 2007..
See this fellow? He would have been far more useful at the plate than Carlos Beltran was against Adam Wainwright shortly after Midnight on October 20, 2006, when he struck out looking with the tying run in scoring position in the seventh and deciding game of the National League Championship Series against the St. Louis Cardinals at William A. Shea Municipal Stadium, Flushing Meadows, New York. No, I don't go to games. No, I don't watch games. No, I don't even listen to the games. I do keep informed as to what is going on, and all I will say is that Mister Met, the official mascot of the Mets, as opposed to a former unofficial mascot who wore a white hat and black mask in his season seat, would have done better at the plate than Carlos Beltran did on that early morning of Friday, October 20, 2006. You see, Mister Met would have at least swung the bat on an 0-2 count.
I hope that you have enjoyed this pictorial essay.
All to you, Blessed Mother. All to your Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, we love you! Save souls!
