Abba's Art

Tag: Beauty

  • Silent Listening

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    Officially, the first day of Spring is a month away. Evidently, this daffodil didn’t get the memo😊. Heralding life, it validated the ‘silent loveliness’ of our garden stone’s inscription: How Lovely is the Silence of Growing Things I’ve been truly blessed for most of my life to reside in the relative calming silence of ‘Rularia’,…

  • Amateur Neighborhood Theater

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    Some impromptu entertainment performed by some feral forest friends this ‘ole turkey’ enjoyed this morning . . . and there’s no admission charge . . . Be Blessed, and . . . “For every animal of the forest is mine” ….”I know every bird in the mountains” – Psalm 50:10-11 Keep Looking Up . .…

  • A Ragamuffin’s Regretful ‘If Only”s

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    ‘Woulda’…’coulda’ …’shoulda’ … Life’s ‘if only’s that can block out the bright sunshine with dark stratocumulus clouds of regret. Intriguing that “if” resides smack dab in the middle of LIFE. Regret is “If Only’s” synonym. The dictionary defines regret as, “To feel sorry, disappointed, distressed, or remorseful about. To remember with a feeling of loss…

  • Water’s Frozen Physics

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    Fred D
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    Physics 101 teaches that heat causes expansion, cold contraction. Thus, hot air is less dense than cold air and rises, while cold air sinks. Not water . . . this indispensable renegade of physics possesses the unique property of being denser in liquid form than in solid, so ice floats . . . Good thing!…

  • From Our Home to Yours @ Christmas

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    Fred D
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    Jesus . . . born once . . . that we may be born twice Keep Looking Up . . . His Best is Yet to Come!

  • Brrrrrrrrr!

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    Fred D
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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…

  • Nature’s Soul Therapy

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    Fred D
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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…

  • 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,…

  • Harmony

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    Way back when I was a ‘wee’ one and dinosaurs roamed the earth😊, America was generally a ‘We’ society. Not perfect for sure, but an ambiance of respectful cooperation, collaborative resolution, and unified patriotism prevailed. Sadly, today’s American finds itself embroiled in a polarized “I’m right! – You’re wrong!”, violently combative, angrily divided ‘Me’ society.…