Pictures Are Worth Thousands of Words

It is wonderful to finally have spring here in Romania.  The sun is out, the temperature is nice, and we can finally get out of the house to walk around and enjoy God's creation.

We have been enjoying seeing all of the fruit trees blossom.  Most people here have many of them in their yards so this time of year is very beautiful.  This is an apple tree at the boys transition house.

Of course all of those flowers attract lots of bees!  We did an outdoor english lesson and all we could hear was the buzzing of the bees.  They don't like to stop for pictures so it took nearly a hundred shots to get a few good ones like this!

Butterflies have all just come out of their cocoons and I'm always keen on taking macro shots of them.  Unfortunately they aren't very photogenic either, they don't like to stay in one place for very long.  I chased this one around for at least 20 minutes before it landed long enough to get a good shot. 

There is also an abundance of other colorful bugs, like this ladybug...

...and this yellow one, the likes of which I have never seen before.

This is a nice example of the beautiful weather we've been having!

There have also been some spectacular sunsets.

This is the entryway of an old abandoned winery that we explored.  It has been vacant ever since communism fell in 1989.

These barrels are massive, holding 6.5 tons of wine each!

They are about 8 feet in diameter, just huge.

There are also many abandoned factories scattered all over the place.

Most of them were shuttered after the fall of communism because there wasn't demand for the products they were making.  Many of them existed just so that everyone would have a job.

I hope you enjoyed this little picture tour.  Would you please continue to pray for us as we work with abandoned kids here in Romania?  Please pray for the kids that they would be open to God, most of them have a lot of head knowledge about God but it hasn't moved to the heart.  They find it very hard to put into practice being surrounded by their peers in a very secularized culture (sound familiar?).  We just pray that God will take ahold of them and give them transforming faith.  Please continue to pray for the planning of summer ministry and for our organization as a whole.  Thank you so much for being our partners in this life changing ministry!