"Forty Days and Forty Nights" © Amy Beth Augustin Barlow 2004

Noah must have been the main topic of conversation in his neighborhood. First he builds this gigantic boat - paramount to me trying to build the International Space Station in my backyard - and the next thing you know he's herding every imaginable animal right to his backdoor. Weird. Then, probably on a day when the sun was shining bright at ever, he packed his little family into that oversized boat. So there he was surrounded by every animal ever created (and every odor ever let loose) and God shut the door. He must have looked like a fool...until the sky began to grow black and the rain began to fall. Noah was once again the talk of the neighborhood...but this time, they were last words. (Genesis 7:17-19) background photo taken from www.allposters.com