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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 , Challenges , Landscapes , The Book | Tags: California , Dead Forest , death , Isaiah , Mammoth Mt , SquareUp , trees | Leave a comment
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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 , Challenges , Nature , The Book | Tags: hiking , Isaiah , Mt. Shasta , SquareUp , summer | 13 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: 1000 words , Cell shots , Challenges , Nature , The Book | Tags: Ezekiel , fog , hiking , quiet , SquareUp , trails | 16 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: 1000 words , Challenges , Cityscapes , DSLR Shots , 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 Shots , 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 , Challenges , DSLR Shots , 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: 1000 words , Challenges , DSLR Shots , 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 , Challenges , DSLR Shots , 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 , Challenges , 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: 1000 words , 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: 1000 words , 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: 1000 words , Challenges , Nature , Photography , 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: Landscapes , Nature , Photography , 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
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: 1000 words , The Book | Tags: 2016 , beginnings , clouds , Gnosis , heavens , John | Leave a comment
created as artists, thinkers, doers, worshipers
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August 8, 2014 | Categories: Art , The Book | Tags: bits n pieces , creation , Genesis , mankind , sculpture | Leave a comment
Reflections on the mists of creation.
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May 6, 2014 | Categories: Nature , Photography , The Book | Tags: 2014 , animals , creation , eye , Genesis , Gnosis , reflections , Sacramento Zoo , tiger | Leave a comment
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July 29, 2013 | Categories: Photography , Skyscapes , The Book | Tags: 2013 , clouds , darkness , Genesis , heavens , light , Photography | 3 Comments
Created flora
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March 7, 2013 | Categories: Nature , Photography , The Book | Tags: 2013 , beginnings , creation , Genesis , Gnosis , light , pampas , plants , plumes | 5 Comments
… Let the…dry land appear.”
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January 28, 2013 | Categories: Nature , Photography , Skyscapes , The Book | Tags: 2013 , clouds , dawn , Genesis , Gnosis , heavens , Lake Tahoe , land , light | Leave a comment
and made separate from the darkness …
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December 14, 2012 | Categories: Cityscapes , Photography , The Book | Tags: bits n pieces , boundaries , buildings , darkness , Genesis , Gnosis , light , lines , shadows | Leave a comment
in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years …”
