Soulfeast 2008 at Lake Junaluska, NC, turned out to be a blessed time once again. It was good to get back after missing the past two because of Samuel, who still made it a challenge at times, and we were blessed to have both sets of parents/grandparents join us this year. Again we drove down on Saturday and spent the night at my parents house near Burnsville, NC, before driving the hour and a half to LJ to register Sunday afternoon.

They had a good mix of plenary speakers and workshops so even our fathers found something that interested them. I believe it was the first conference of this type either had experienced. There were really too many choices so at least for the rest of us we had to miss out on some things we would have liked to have seen.

I'll admit my recent "obsession" with photography, especially time-lapse and waterfalls, caused me to not be as focused as I should have been perhaps, but as it turned out they had a workshop on Spirituality & Photography, too. :) I discovered 2 weeks ago that many Canon Powershot cameras with Digic II or III processors can be made much more powerful with some added firmware called CHDK. The best part is that it's temporary so you don't have to use it if you don't want. It's simply loaded on the SD card.

Anyway, I uploaded 28 pics and 2 time-lapse videos from this trip to my photo album. Here is one of my family.


We're already looking forward to next year, which will feature an excellent speaker that we enjoyed previously. Hopefully our parents will want to go again.