under the sea...

check out these photos from yesterday! for one thing, snorkeling in emerald bay is just plain great! i was able to go out without kids, which means i can just have fun and relax and enjoy everything underneath the surface! one of these is a shovelnose guitar fish...and the other is a leopard shark. the leopard is the only shark i've ever seen...and they aren't harmful to people, but yesterday a friend and i were going through an enormous school of small fish. and i'm talking huge! meaning that i could hardly see through the school, they were packed in so tight. there were quite possibly hundreds of thousands of them! so awesome! right as we see those, emily says to me, "oh this is a great spot to see sharks cause there are so many fish around!!" she was all excited...and so was i for a moment. then i thought....whoa, she's not talking about those cute little leopard sharks! but unfortunately, we didn't see anything other sharks.

as usual, these photos don't do them justice. if only ya'll could go snorkeling with me here...it amazes me! there's that verse in psalms that talks about the sea teeming with life, great and small...and it's so true!

hope all is well with each of you...

love,

b.