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Tag: Creation

  • Welcome Back Flowers

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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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    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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    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 .…

  • Feral Friends

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    Never knowing which of our Last Frontier feral neighbors may decide to wander through our backyard is always an unanticipated treat. Here’s a vid clip of a recent impromptu fur and fowl ‘Splash Party’ 😊 Keep Looking Up . . . His best is yet to come!

  • Seasons Exchange

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    Snows receding from the mountains . . . Trumpeter swans nesting on the lake . . . Spring relinquishing to Summer . . . Seasons exchange in the Land of the Midnight Sun  “To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven” – Ecclesiastes 3:1             …

  • My Last Frontier Backyard

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    People often ask, “Why do you love Alaska so much? . . . here’s a few pics taken in my backyard today . . . any further questions? 😊                         “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork“. -Psalm 19:1 I M Blessed . . . May U B 2   …

  • Farewell Flowers

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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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    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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    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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    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…