Window pain

If you look carefully you can see an impression of a bird in flight on this window at church.  I have three more pictures, all of different birds (presumably) on the same window.  A little flock of birds hit the window at the same time! It was crazy to see images of four birds all in flight, with their wings flapping. Alas, there were several little piles of feathers on the ground below.  I guess it was some cat's lucky day.

We discovered this on a Saturday when we arrived to take our turn cleaning the building with the Grahams.  We gave high marks to the families that had cleaned the previous week.  Good job on the windows!

Things I Learned in the Pacific Northwest

Here is what I learned on my trips to Portland and Seattle recently:
1.  The fine for littering in Oregon is up to $6,230.
2.  You are not allowed to pump your own gas in Oregon.
3.  In Seattle you have to know the difference between 5 different kinds of recycling materials in order to dispose of anything.  That's how many varieties of bins you will encounter at the airport or the rental house you are staying in.

In case you are wondering, I did not get busted for the first one, but I did get busted for the second one.  And I just gave up on the third one and threw things in the "landfill" bin when Aunt Cory wasn't looking.  Sorry, Cory!

And in case you are still wondering, I did not actually throw anything out my window in Oregon, I just saw the signs on the highway, and I did not get cited for pumping my own gas---I got yelled at by the gas station attendant.  It was traumatizing.  And then I found myself blurting out that I was from California and didn't know, which I think made him even more disgusted with me.