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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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Whatsoever is lovely … (as XingfuMama suggests) is worth savoring. This morning’s dawn over the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
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November 15, 2021 | Categories: Cell shots , Skyscapes , The Book | Tags: colors , dawn , El Dorado County , heavens , natural light , Philippians | 4 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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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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Southeastern inland: Mammoth Mountain Dead Forest … where the CO2 gas seeped up from below to kill the trees. Posted warnings tell parents and pet owners to keep little ones away. (See https://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-81/Intro/facts-sheet/GasKillingTrees.html )
“And the remaining trees of his forests will be so few that a child could write them down”
Becky’s Squares — July #TreeSquared
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July 25, 2021 | Categories: Cell shots , Landscapes , The Book | Tags: California , Dead Forest , death , Isaiah , Mammoth Mt , SquareUp , trees | 3 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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“May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ”: “‘… my disciple must … take up their cross and follow me …’ ‘… learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.’”
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April 6, 2021 | Categories: DSLR , The Book | Tags: churches , cross , Easter , Galations , Jesus , Mark , Matthew , musings , solarized | Leave a comment
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“make artistic designs for work in … silver”
Color Your World: Silver
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March 21, 2021 | Categories: Cell shots , DSLR , The Book | Tags: branches , coloryourworld , Exodus , natural light , silver , trees | 5 Comments
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“… the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!”
Weekend Sky #19 — March 6 (somewhere)
Lens — Artist Challenge #135: A Glimpse into my World A Photo a Week Challenge: Something New
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March 5, 2021 | Categories: DSLR , Landscapes , Skyscapes , The Book | Tags: 2 Corinthians , beautiful , clouds , creation , dawn , musings , praiseworthy | 11 Comments
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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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“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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I hate speech? … I hate-speech?
“The tongue also is a fire … it corrupts the whole body, sets the whole course of one’s life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.”
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January 14, 2021 | Categories: DSLR , The Book | Tags: boundaries , consequences , fire , James , politics , speechmaking , thoughts , true | 4 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
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For unto us a child is born … the government will be on his shoulders. And he shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
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December 13, 2020 | Categories: Events , Holiday , Seasons , The Book | Tags: baby , beginnings , Bethlehem , Christmas , edited , Gnosis , Isaiah , life , love , mankind , Nativity , peace , praiseworthy | Leave a comment
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Whatever is true and pure … focus there … and give thanks.
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November 24, 2020 | Categories: Cell shots , Holiday , Nature , Seasons , The Book | Tags: colors , fall , focus , gratitude , Philippians , pure , thoughts | 1 Comment
without Him nothing was made that has been made
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December 12, 2016 | Categories: The Book | Tags: beginnings , John , snow , winter | Leave a comment
… and the Word was with God and the Word was God
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June 12, 2016 | Categories: DSLR , Skyscapes , The Book | Tags: 2016 , beginnings , clouds , Gnosis , heavens , John | Leave a comment