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The old branches shrouded the stump, looking like wings of snow. Almost angelic to the bunnies or birds that could have hidden beneath, protected from cold or predators.
“Who has wrapped up the waters as a cloak?”
Changing Focus – Angels
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December 28, 2021 | Categories: DSLR , Nature , Seasons , The Book | Tags: branches , Changing Focus , Proverbs , snow , trails , winter | 9 Comments
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We rounded the curve in the trail and there, ghostly, rising, floating, dripping “drops of water, which distill as rain from the mist.”
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December 7, 2021 | Categories: DSLR , Nature , The Book | Tags: Job , mist , solitude , trails , trees | 4 Comments
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“Have you entered the treasury of snow?”
Wishing for snow … maybe if I envision it … snow will fall and I will enter its treasury … “let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!” I live just below the snowline, too low to ever shovel but high enough to reach snow in 30 minutes. Several years back, I captured this close-up of the Ponderosa Pine 20 feet from my deck after a rare snowfall at our home. Seeing it on my desktop always makes me winter happy.
Share Your Desktop
Tuesday Twice — January 19, 2015
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November 17, 2021 | Categories: DSLR , Nature , Seasons , The Book | Tags: branches , Job , Share Your Desktop , snow , Tuesday Twice , winter | 7 Comments
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November 10, 2021 | Categories: Cell shots , Nature | Tags: Wordless Wednesday | 7 Comments
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“He spreads the snow like wool and scatters the frost like ashes.”
The week before, the trail was clear, and the aspen leaves blocked the sky overhead. What a change a bomb cyclone has made. This day, the snow was 8 to 12 inches deep, and golden leaves dotted the crystalline carpet.
Lens-Artists Challenge #172: A Day of My Week
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November 6, 2021 | Categories: DSLR , Landscapes , Nature , Seasons , The Book | Tags: aspens , gold , hiking , leaves , Lens-Artists Challenge , Psalms , Sierra Nevada Mountains , winter | 4 Comments
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and of the sky over the neighborhood meadow. From this perspective, the grass is as tall as the cottonwood tree.
Weekend Sky #46
Sunday Stills — October sans pink
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October 17, 2021 | Categories: DSLR , Landscapes , Nature , Seasons | Tags: #SundayStills , fall , gold , trees , Weekend Sky | 12 Comments
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Big falls … “Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls” Burney Falls
Resting falls … “‘Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters’”
Little falls … “He waters the mountains from his upper chambers; the land is satisfied by the fruit of his work.” Fordyce Falls Creek
Water Water Everywhere #94
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September 6, 2021 | Categories: Cell shots , DSLR , Nature , The Book | Tags: Isaiah , Psalms , waterfalls , WWE | 9 Comments
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Before Heading Out — Last DSLR
Looking down on our barbecue … hoping
The owl who came to dinner — Last cell
Brian’s Last on the Card — July 2021
Six Word Saturday — July 31, 2021
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July 31, 2021 | Categories: Cell shots , DSLR , Nature | Tags: #6WS , #Selfie Saturday , #SixWordSaturday , birds , still life , The Last Photo , whimsy | 5 Comments
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Inland Northern trail near Mt. Shasta, laboring up the dusty trail, hot and sweaty. But look up, where “… over everything the glory will be a canopy.”
Becky’s Squares – July #TreeSquared
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July 17, 2021 | Categories: Cell shots , Nature , The Book | Tags: hiking , Isaiah , Mt. Shasta , SquareUp , summer | 15 Comments
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Coastal mossy madrona along the Dipsea Trail. ” … how is the wood of a vine different from that of a branch from any of the trees in the forest?” Or a blanket of moss from leaves?
Becky’s Squares July — #TreeSquared
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July 5, 2021 | Categories: Cell shots , Nature , The Book | Tags: Ezekiel , fog , hiking , quiet , SquareUp , trails | 18 Comments
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Azalea or rhododendron? “Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come …”
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Six Word Saturday
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June 26, 2021 | Categories: Cityscapes , DSLR , Nature , The Book | Tags: #6WS , #SixWordSaturday , beautiful , fences , FOTD , solarized , Song of Songs | 10 Comments
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Texture on the hiking trail
Texture of light and brick in Sacramento
CFFC — Texture
Which Way Photo Challenge
And what about the elastic texture of time? It flies smoothly when having fun, yet drags roughly when dutifully dogging work.
I’ve not had time to capture or create an image to express this taffy-pull challenge of returning to work, that necessary reality tugging time from photography. And, therein lies the rub of my existential Which Way Photo Challenge: take time to make a living or make time to take a photo.
All hail the end of the COVID-battical!
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April 18, 2021 | Categories: Cell shots , Cityscapes , DSLR , Nature | Tags: bark , CFFC , close-up , country , hiking , humor , musings , photographers , Sacramento , texture , trails , Which Way Photo | 6 Comments
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Last full moon waning — last on the DSLR
Last trail trekked — last on the cell camera
Bushboy’s Last Photo Challenge — March
Just One Person From Around the World — ThatTravelLadyInHerShoes
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April 1, 2021 | Categories: Activities , Cell shots , DSLR , Landscapes , Nature , People , Skyscapes | Tags: Eagle Pass Trail , hiking , natural light , solitude , The Last Photo , trails | 3 Comments
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After the rain, as the day ends, the setting sun ignites the clearing clouds.
Sunday Stills — March 7
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March 7, 2021 | Categories: DSLR , Nature , Skyscapes | Tags: #aftertherain , #SundayStills , clouds , endings , sunset | 15 Comments
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Outdoor dining at Winnemucca Lake, Round Top Mountain ahead
Brian (aka Bushboy) — Last on the Cell
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February 28, 2021 | Categories: Cell shots , Nature , Play , Seasons | Tags: escapes , mountains , quiet , snowshoeing , The Last Photo , winter | Leave a comment
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For every bark, there is a season.
“a season for every activity under the heavens: … a time to uproot …
… a time to tear down …
… a time to scatter …
… a time to embrace … and a time for peace.”
CFFC – Bark
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February 26, 2021 | Categories: Cell shots , DSLR , Nature , Seasons , The Book | Tags: bark , bits n pieces , CFFC , Ecclesiastes , lifecycles , meditations | 11 Comments
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… on the moss tops of the rocks outside my window today, teasing me to catch the light as it danced into and reflected from the moss. I never quite tagged it.
“Come and see the works of God, Who is awesome in His deeds toward the sons of man.”
Lens Artists Challenge #135: A Glimpse Into Your World
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February 20, 2021 | Categories: Landscapes , Nature , Play , The Book | Tags: #aftertherain , Gnosis , light , Psalms , rocks | 9 Comments
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Or color splashes in black and white
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February 14, 2021 | Categories: Cell shots , Nature , People , Play | Tags: #challengeyourcamera , colors , edited , hiking , solitude , winter | 8 Comments
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The final view on a hike in Hidden Falls Regional Park.
The Last on the iPhone — January 2021
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January 31, 2021 | Categories: Cell shots , Landscapes , Nature | Tags: bridges , hiking , river , The Last Photo | Leave a comment
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“the wisdom that comes from above is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere.”
Becky’s Squares Challenge — Uplifting
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January 19, 2021 | Categories: Cell shots , Nature , The Book | Tags: bits n pieces , James , SquareUp , trees , wisdom | 10 Comments
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“Peacemakers who sow in peace shall reap a harvest of righteousness.”
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January 17, 2021 | Categories: DSLR , Nature , The Book | Tags: birds , consequences , James , musings , reaping , wisdom | 2 Comments
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After the bloom … before deep winter … red-gold leaves on December’s flowering pear tree. “For every thing, there is a season ….”
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December 27, 2020 | Categories: Cell shots , Nature , Seasons , The Book | Tags: beautiful , colors , December , Ecclesiastes , flowering pear , FOTD , gold , leaves | 4 Comments
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… “a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.”
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December 23, 2020 | Categories: DSLR , Landscapes , Nature , Seasons , The Book | Tags: black and white , fog , James , peace , quiet , trees | 2 Comments
Shutter’s on the World 