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  • All Creatures Great and Small

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    Fred D
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    Last Frontier’s wildlife portrays Mother Nature’s calm and chaos . . . strength and stamina . . . beauty and barbarity. The cow moose scars are mostly likely from a foiled grizzly attack. “All creatures great and small. The Lord God made them all”. – James Herriot Keep Looking Up . . . His best…

  • John Muir Quote

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    Fred D
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    John Muir described my Greatland front yard with 5 words . . . “Nature –  the manuscripts of God” I M Blessed . . . May U B 2 Keep Looking Up . . . His best is yet to come!

  • Welcome Back Flowers

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    Fred D
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    Welcome Back Flowers is the sequel to Farewell Flowers posted prior to leaving the Smoky Mountains forests for the Alaskan wilderness last month. Snow-birding between these two awesome corners of creation provides ‘seasonal jet-lag’ . . . as Spring morphs into Summer in the Smokies, it’s just beginning to emerge from Winter’s grip in the…

  • Calm before the Storm

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    Fred D
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    Were that life could be a continual mountaintop experience.  Reality is most is lived in the valleys where its been said you’re either in the midst of a storm, coming out of one, or one lies ahead on your journey. But take heart . . . just as rainbows appear after the storm, each storm…

  • Contentedly Rich and Breathless

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    Fred D
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    Socrates once wrote, “He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature“. Centuries later someone penned, “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away”. This morning His creationscape left my soul content . . rich .…

  • Farewell Flowers

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    Fred D
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    Otra dia, otra adventura is a Spanish adage that translates . . . another day, another adventure . . . every day exploring Creation is. Got in one last Great Smoky Mountains wander today before jumping on the jet to the Last Frontier tomorrow. As always a new adventure awaited, two colorful blooms not yet…

  • Small Wonders

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    Fred D
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    Creation treated me to two small wonders on today’s woods wander. One, a ‘tree’ delicately inscribed on a fallen leaf.  The other, lighter than cotton; weigh for weight 5 times stronger than steel; 1,000 times thinner than a human hair; capable of stretching 4 times its length; consisting of 100% sticky protein, it’s manufactured by…

  • Ethereal Mountain Mists

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    Fred D
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    Six thousand feet ft. high among the Great Smoky Mountain cathedrals the immense magnificence of my Father’s canvases serenely consumed my infinitesimal smallness.                                 “O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is Your name in all the earth”. – Psalm 8:9

  • Assuring Angel

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    Fred D
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    Mountains are transcendent God places . . . a gateway where heaven comes closest to earth . . . where Jesus often alone went to pray. This evening I climbed a mountain and sat in silent awe as He adorned the sunset’s glow with an angel fly-by, assuring me of His presence. I M Blessed…

  • Teardrops and Raindrops

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    Fred D
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    Tears of joy, and those of sorrow We know not which will fall tomorrow Raindrops upon a flower’s bloom Prompts dismissing teardrops’ gloom Our tears of grief, and those of loss Were all once shed upon a Cross He knows our grief, our pain and sorrow And saves each one to dry tomorrow “You know…