Carl the Coatimundi of Colossal Cave

Joseph visited Colossal Cave, just north of Tucson, yesterday and met Carl.

A Great Weekend in Tucson



Joseph Boyd, Ph.D.

 It has been a great weekend for our family. It will be five years ago this coming August since I drove Joseph to Tucson to check in at the University of Arizona, where he began working on his doctorate in bio-chemistry and molecular biophysics, (as the department was then called). A month ago, Joseph passed the oral final examination for his doctorate. After 4.7 years of hard work and study, a lot frustration followed by success, he graduated this past Friday. Sheila and I arrived on Thursday afternoon, while our daughter, Becky, flew in from Pennsylvania later that night. We were treated to a celebration brunch on Friday morning, followed by the commencement celebration that began at noon. For the rest of the weekend we enjoyed visiting with Joseph and a few of his friends.



Drawn by Rebekah Fusina

 

Becky, Sheila, Joseph and me
at the brunch celebration extravaganza.

What would a visit to Tucson be without a Saturday morning breakfast at Waffle House?

Me, Joseph, Sheila and Rebekah



Gettin' Out of Town

Leaving for Arizona in half an hour. Joseph's graduation & "hooding ceremony is tomorrow. We will worship at Desert Springs Presbyterian Church on Sunday, and return to California later that day.

More Floral Beauty After Yesterday's Rain In Tucson

Photographs by Joseph Boyd

More photos from Tucson by Joseph Boyd



Luminous Rose



A Moth Drinking It's Lunch

On Joseph's Patio

A Beautiful Flower Bed in the Winterhaven Neighborhood

Raindrops

The first 4 photos were taken by Joseph Boyd after a recent rain storm in Tucson Arizona. The picture of raindrops on the Cedar (bottom) was taken in California last year.

WINTER SUNRISE

Winter solstice sunrise on 21 December, 2010.
Photo by Joseph Boyd, north of Gila Bend, Arizona.
Joseph drove in from Tucson today; he said that the Mojave
Desert was like one big puddle. 

Fourth Week of Advent: Tuesday

 Colossians 1:15-23  The Preeminence of Christ

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.

Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. But now he has reconciled you by Christ's physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation- if you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope held out in the gospel. This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.
(NIV)

Arizona Sunset

Photograph by Joseph Boyd

4 November 2010

BIOSPHERE 2

Joseph visited the Biosphere this weekend. Here are a couple of pictures he took.



"Rain Forest"

 

"Ocean"

On Picacho Peak, Arizona

Joseph looking out over southern Arizona

"Chippy" the chipmunk

Looking toward Mt. Lemmon

Hiking group. Joseph with cast on his broken hand.

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