Abba's Art

Tag: Photography

  • Color and Emotion

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    Color holds power to impact our moods, emotions, and behaviors. It’s documented color influences 85% of shoppers’ purchase decisions. What are your favorite colors? What emotions do they evoke? . . . red’s passion? – blue’s calm? – yellow’s happiness? – orange’s warmth? – black’s power – white’s purity? Generalities? . . . yes, but…

  • Soul Contentment

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    Fred D
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    Soul contentment is hiking above snowline to witness the day fade into a golden horizon . . . and then hustling off the mountain before zero-dark thirty sets in and your spouse calls Search & Rescue 😊 “The heavens proclaim the glory of God. The skies display His craftmanship”. Psalm 19:1I M Blessed . .…

  • Rebirth

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    Fred D
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    Temps reached into the 40s as Mother Nature granted a brief reprieve from winter’s arrival. Snow melt transformed to translucent droplets exhuming a colorful re-birth of leaves carpeting the forest floor . . . reminiscent  of the tears Jesus shed to offer all who claim Him as their own a glorious, forever rebirth. “O death,…

  • Trumpeter Swan Update

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    Fred D
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    Little orphan cygnet Bigfoot evidently is a prodigy who earned their solo flight certification early. He/she took off alone for points south yesterday . . . Hooray! Mother Nature has granted our Trumpeter family a Flight School extension. The temps have warmed into the 40s and melted much of the ice that had began to…

  • Swans and Orphans

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    Fred D
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    Trumpeter Swan Flight School finally commenced on Fish Lake today with the cygnets observing their parents demonstrate Avionics 101. A lone Trumpeter Swan cygnet, slightly larger than our two resident cygnets, mysteriously appeared on the lake. I can only surmise this little orphan was somehow left behind by its parents I never saw. The little…

  • Contemplate Beauty

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    Fred D
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     “Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth, find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts”. Rachel Carson

  • Leaf Speak

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    Fred D
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    Winter’s approach has stripped the forest whose fallen leaves display beauty in cryonic death, and silently speak endurance to the ‘naked’ wilderness. “In every change, in every falling leaf there is some pain, some beauty.” – Amit Ray +                             ^    …

  • Dawn’s Splendor

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    Fred D
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    Creation’s awakening at dawn spurs a grateful rebirth of joy in my soul. Here’s a few glimpses of dawn’s wonder that was mine to behold this morning. “The whole earth is filled with the awe of your wonders; where morning dawns, where evening fades, you call forth songs of joy”. Psalm 65:8 I M Blessed…

  • Friluftsliv

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    Fred D
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    SAD . . . Seasonal Affective Disorder is attributed to the long, cold, dark days of winter. Yet, Scandinavian countries, where cold-dark thirty resides for 5 months each year, are consistently ranked among the happiest countries . . . Why? Friluftsliv – “free air life” – the mood-boosting Nordic concept of connecting with nature; breathing…

  • Flight School

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    Fred D
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    Flight School needs to start soon if these cygnets are going to accompany their parents south before freeze-up. This young Trumpeter swan pair hatched their cygnets the end of June , much later than previous Trumpeter parents . . . Frosty Eagle’s watching. “Love to Live, Live to Love” – Amy Carmichael        …