Abba's Art

Tag: Photography

  • Grateful for Exo/Endo Skeletons

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    Fred D
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    “Count your blessings, count them one by one, and it will amaze you what the Lord has done.” Encountering this alien on our deck this morning, the former Science teacher in me kicked in. We humans make up just 0.01% of life on earth, whereas pesky insects comprise 75% of all animal species . .…

  • Nature’s Drumbeat

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    Fred D
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    Wandering the forest today Mother Nature serenaded me with sporadic drumbeat of acorns, dislodged by each gust of wind, softly thudding to the forest floor. The mast crop is abundant this year, and the squirrels, bears, deer and other forest denizens are feasting on the bounty. Listening in the solitude I sensed the wonder of…

  • On the Web

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    Fred D
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    Proof that our Great Smoky Mountain home for sale is on the web 😊 Smile, and . . . Keep Looking Up ^ His Best is Yet to Come!

  • Bear Hug

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    Fred D
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    If you haven’t had a good bear hug in a while, here’s one with a few amorous nuzzles administered in our Great Smoky Mountain backyard yesterday 😊

  • Labor Day Beauty

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    Fred D
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    Didn’t encounter any wild critters wandering through the Great Smoky Mountain today. Perhaps they’re traveling for the holiday 😊. However, the wildflowers treated me to a kaleidoscopic bouquet of eye-candy wonder. I M Blessed . . . May U B 2 “See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin.…

  • Blue Moon

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    Fred D
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    Please forgive me . . . last evening my inveterate, juvenile spirit got the better of me. High up in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, at a pull-off along the Foothills Parkway, I ‘mooned’ my spouse . . . well kinda’ 😊 . . . we had driven up there to watch the Blue…

  • Creation’s Wonders

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    Fred D
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    My thoughts of rising early and climbing the mountain to witness the expansive wonder of a Smoky Mountain sunrise were reclaimed by slumber . . . perhaps I’m finally getting old . . . perish the thought! 😊 Finally getting upright, I poured myself a steaming cup of java and ventured outside for a short…

  • ‘Coincidences’

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    Fred D
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    Moving is such fun! 😊 Earlier this year, with a combined age of 152, Ellen and I sensed the Lord nudging us to move on to a final ‘nesting grounds’. Consequently, for the past several months we’ve been road-tripping north to several states searching for that unknown to us destination. To add to our latest…

  • Interstate Exits and Help Wanted

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    Fred D
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    We just returned from a retirement mecca search road trip verifying . . . adventure awaits just off the Interstate. Day 1 – An impromptu exit from Interstate 81 found us in Pulaski, VA . . . the home of the River Turtles. Imagining local fans cheering . . . GO TURTLES!!! brought a smile…

  • Pretty in Pink

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    Fred D
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    “Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.”  George Santayana Creation’s wonders ever astound and bless me. Today’s lily blooms displayed an ineffable definition of Pretty in Pink. “Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil or spin, yet I…