Abba's Art

Category: Photography

  • Brrrrrrrrr!

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    50 Degree Rhododendron Zero Degree Rhododendron The Great Smoky Mountains has joined much of our nation’s pre-Christmas frigid cold snap . . . the coldest temperatures recorded here in a quarter century! At our digs up here on the mountain > down in the ‘holler’ > over the ‘crick’, the temperature plummeted from near 50…

  • Never Alone

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    A 2018 UK survey of loneliness during Christmas revealed that 17% of people felt lonely during this festive time. I suspect it may be even more in our tragically divided nation. This morning at a men’s breakfast the issue of Christmas loneliness came up. It brought to mind a story I once read regarding the…

  • The Gift of Others

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    Fred D
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    Christmas blessings from our home to yours. In whatever circumstances and wherever this may reach you, may it find you and yours resting assured in knowing His Best is Yet to Come! This momentary adventure called Life is more often experienced in its valleys than on the mountaintops. Suffice it to say my 2022’s sojourn…

  • Delightfully Delusional

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    Fred D
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    Yesterday marked my 29,220 day on terra firma . . . it’s weird being the same age as old people! 😊 My younger, ever-patient spouse, who has tread this planet a mere 25,553 days, consoled me by baking a scrumptious Hummingbird birthday cake (pure manna!), and giving me a shiny, new coffee percolator to ensure…

  • Nature’s Soul Therapy

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    Sunlight shafts illuminating ethereal mists of a thundering mountain stream; a 6-point whitetail buck stealthily crouching in a thicket to avoid detection; me silently crouching to avoid detection as a black bear saunters by 😟 😟 😟 . . . Nature’s soul stirring wonders to embrace wandering through the Great Smoky Mountains. “The Lord has…

  • Wiley

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    Fred D
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    Pal, my childhood German Shepard; Goliath, my massive St. Bernard; Brandy, a gorgeous Golden Retriever; and Lobo, my latest ‘man’s-best-friend’ German Shepard; I’ve enjoyed having a faithful furry buddy by my side. Snow-birding complicates transporting pets, and consequently I’ve been without a canine companion for some time. Here in the Great Smoky Mountains, Mother Nature…

  • Thanksgiving Gratitude

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    Fred D
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    Two roads diverged in a wood, and I –I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost Two lives diverged along life’s journey and, in the time we walked together, you made a difference in mine . . . Thank You “Two are better than one, because they have…

  • How Big is Little?

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    Fred D
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    Today our world’s population reached 8 billion . . . Happy Birthday World! It’s estimated 8 billion grains of sand would fill 8,000 cups and weigh 2 ½ tons. Recently, while I was counting sheep snuggled against my pillow, a group of obviously wide-awake researchers at the University of Hawaii estimated there are seven quintillion,…

  • Life’s Flight

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    Fred D
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    Flying has always fascinated me. As a child (some claim I still am 😊), the adventures of Sky King, a WWII aviator turned Arizona rancher, kept me glued to our family’s state-of-the-art, oval, 13” black and white TV. My time in the USMC as an aircraft electrician heightened my flying passion, and early in my…

  • Being Jesus

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    Fred D
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    Today a friend posted on their blog (gratefuladdict) the note below. Someone . . . prompted by love’s pure compassion . . . placed this note on the van windshield a homeless person was living in. This note simultaneously blessed and convicted me . . . blessed, aware of my undeserved abundance . . .…