tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67522677586677467152024-03-05T04:55:33.541-05:00How Great Thou ArtRevelation 4:11 (KJV)
"Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created."
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. This photo blog is designed to share photos of God's magnificent creation, that we might give Him the praise and honor due His name.
Psalm 104: 24 (KJV)
"O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches."Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger76125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6752267758667746715.post-53574026685731586882013-09-09T09:20:00.000-04:002013-09-09T09:22:43.858-04:00Take a Hike!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I was shocked to prep these photos for posting to find I have not shared any photos since this spring! Where has the summer gone?! Well I have spent most of it in the office instead of behind the lens, but I did use my paid day off on Labor Day for some rest and relaxation in the woods, and boy am I glad I brought my camera!<br />
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Millcreek Metro Park probably has more hidden gems and interesting nooks and crannies than most urban parks. So while I am not sure what trail I was on or how to find my way back there again, I can tell you it was a perfect day for photos in cloudy Youngstown.<br />
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The first hidden gem was a part of the creek that was cut down in a deep gully....when driving on the road above looking down to the creek made my knees wobbly and weak! But there was a nice trail and boardwalk of stairs that took you right down to the water. <br />
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I am grateful that the water was running low and shallow so I was able to stand in the creek bed to shoot pictures without getting my feet wet. I really didn't expect to find such a nice spot so I didn't bring my tripod. But these photos didn't come out half bad for motion water shots taken by hand.<br />
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As you can see by these photos I was really taken with the layers and layers of rocks on the edges....it was just super neat. These were taken looking up the creek with this gentle series of spillways, and then the shots below were taken of the little waterfall that went into this perfect clear pool below. I am not sure I did the set up justice, but the rocks were mossy and slippery and while I want to get the best shots, I <i>really </i>don't want to dunk the camera!<br />
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This was the end of the trail near the road. I was just wondering how that giant round rock got there.<br />
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This was a rock skipper's heaven! There were so many flat stones of all sizes, my inner 7 year old could not resist a try at skipping even in this rocky part of the creek. And believe it or not I got a triple mini skip! <br />
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And the last surprise of the day was stumbling upon a doe and her three youngsters as we walked the trail back to the car!<br />
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There was a mess of young growth maples and they were just standing there eating, and frankly I am shocked I didn't scare them off before I got there because I was not being quiet.<br />
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Sometimes a blurry shot can turn out to have a very nice effect as this picture did as they started trotting back into the woods.<br />
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Hope to spend a little more time behind the lens this fall and get some awesome shots of the Lord's amazing creation to share with you!<br />
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Last Saturday I decided it was high time to give my new wide angle lens a try over at the daffodil field at Mill Creek Park. But contrary to my initial plans, using the new lens was not the most exciting part of this photo adventure.<br />
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After I gave up trying to fight the bright beaming late afternoon sun and all the shadows that come with it, I put my workhorse 28mm-300mm zoom lens back on my D90 and decided to just enjoy the regular walking path. While stopped looking at the trail head bulletin board a couple walking by stopped and told us they had just seen a few deer on the path about a quarter mile down. Of course I practically took off at a sprint.....but after speed walking and scanning the forest along the creek I spied no deer.<br />
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But the creek looked sparkling and gorgeous as it ambled through the carpet of green grass and I saw a worn down footpath off the paved walkway so I clambered down the embankment picking up speed as I did...pausing and shouting back to my #1 assistant who was following me. As I turned to look back, my trusty assistant grabs my shoulder and turns me almost face to face with four deer!!! Of course they were beginning to move away as my bull in a china shop behavior is in no way conducive to sneaking up to wild subjects. But their tails were down, and they were moving slow enough that we could follow.....so we trailed them along their beaten down path. <br />
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I didn't get the awesome perfect photo that I would have wanted....but
it was my own fault!! However tracking those deer through the picture
perfect setting as people shouting and strolled at the top of the
embankment on the main walkway was still thrilling, fun, and oddly
soothing.<br />
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Another fun highlight after the deer got too far away, on the way back I
heard some quacking and looked to find a lovely mallard drake cruising
along the creek. He swam along quacking intermittently and then hopped
up onto a rock near a spillway and to preen after a few quick dunks in
the water! Fun to see that happen in the wild for real instead of in a
city park next to a football field.<br />
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All in all a nice kick off to the spring photo season. I hope to have
more posts as I get out there enjoying the great outdoors! <br />
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sightings! And both times I was lucky enough to get to my camera before
these new feathered friends took flight.<br /><br />My first unusual
sighting happened while I was pacing and talking on the phone....I paused by
the window and saw a very strange bird that looked like a combination of
a dove, a woodpecker, a sparrow, and a starling....I just couldn't
figure what I was looking at. But it was gorgeous and I took pictures
and asked questions later. After my mom and I consulted the bird book
and flipped through every page we came to realize that what we saw was
indeed a woodpecker, who feeds on insects on the ground, called a
Northern Flicker. My shots were from pretty far away and don't do it nearly enough justice, but like my <a href="http://howgreatthouartphoto.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-hoot-owl.html" target="_blank">Barred owl sighing</a>....I am too excited not to share!<br />
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My second sighting was brought to my attention by my outdoorsy Dad. Although not raised by wolves, my Dad probably spent most of his childhood and young adulthood outside like one. So he can ID darn near any indigenous species of bird, mammal, or tree. But while he could ID this common redpoll, he did NOT know they are an arctic finch.<br /><br />That's right, these little fellas flock together in large numbers from the arctic and northern Canada and migrate south for winter. However, seeing them in the US can be unusual unless they are in an irruption year. Apparently I am not the only Ohioan to have see these guys for the first time at a feeder this winter. According to this <a href="http://www.cleveland.com/neobirding/index.ssf/2012/02/winter_finches_defy_prognostic.html" target="_blank">article in the Cleveland Plain Dealer</a>, every year the redpoll's southern migration is forecast based on their natural food sources etc.<br />
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And this year they got it wrong! The Winter Finch Forecast said there was plenty of chow in Canada so we would not have any visitors, but there have been many sightings of flocks of redpolls and other boreal forest feeders in Ohio. YAY! <br />
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Any regular reader here knows that one of my favorite subjects that makes me see God's handiwork in his Creation are His marvelous avian critters! I hope you enjoy these guys as much as I did! In the words of Steve Irwin, "They're GORGEOUS!"<br /><br />
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I got the best of both worlds since temps plummeted this week and today we had steady snowfall all day....but today was also the opening of Fellows Riverside Gardens orchid exhibit! Last year I accidentally found this exhibit and I was sans camera....so this year I decided to head back and give everyone a lovely taste of spring regardless of what the groundhog might say!<br />
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Indoor photography is easier in some ways....no wind, less sun flare....but indoor light is also artificial and can make colors less vibrant. Luckily Mill Creek Park has a nice set up with plenty of windows and natural light, and with the white snow giving me plenty of reflected fill light....I think I came out of it with plenty to show for this year. So I didn't post sparingly just so you can see all the variety and really get a good gander at these lovely flowers to take away the winter blues.<br />
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J.R. Miller:</span></b><i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div>
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move, and have our being." God is about us as the air is, and we live in
him as we live in the atmosphere that surrounds us. It is said that one of the
finest orchids in the world is found in England—but, owing to the inclement
climate, it grows in dwarfed form, destitute of beauty, and is of no value.
Climate is everything for fine plants. Spiritual climate is everything in the
growth of heavenly graces. It is a great thing to live and work with the very
atmosphere of Christ's love about us, with the very life of Christ for climate.</span></i></div>
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From far away some of these little plants and blooms don't look like much....but as you can see when you get up close,take a nice slow stroll and stop to smell the orchids you will see it is an exotic garden bursting with color and life....all the right things to make the long winter wait for spring that much more enjoyable!<br />
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How did I ring in the New Year? Doing one thing I love best....chasing down some cardinal photos! My sister and her happy crew came over to play in the foot deep snow and stayed for lunch. After several exclaims of a cardinal sighting out the window, I ended up eating perched on the counter with my camera in hand waiting for the bright red flash to reappear in the tree outside our kitchen.<br />
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I also got some lovely shots of lady cardinal....love, love, LOVE, this girl's super reddish highlights....a lot of females are a little more olive and less blush. Nice to kick off 2013 with a little photo fun. <br />
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A few extra fun shots at the bottom too, of my friendly furry assistants! <br />
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Look closely at the above photo. I liked the shot of lady cardinal, but I couldn't figure why the shot had a weird blur almost blocking her...then I realized that it was a male goldfinch in flight! He must have flown right into the frame without my realizing it! So, I thought that it was cool and decided to share it.<br /><br />
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The shot that made me gear up and go out....and you know that layering with snow gear is a pain for 20 minutes of shooting so you know I really wanted those shots...BAD! <br />
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What a faithful photo companion to brave the snowy cold! Poor kitty still doesn't realize that on bird shoots she scares my subjects! Luckily she only followed as far as the dog's nerd path went and then turned back.<br /><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6752267758667746715.post-50125312570491326782012-11-25T09:12:00.003-05:002012-11-25T09:12:45.824-05:00BuffleHeads!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As any regular reader on this blog knows by now...I love photographing birds!! The Lord made these beautiful delicate looking creatures so hardy and so lovely it is hard not to think that all Christians must be birdwatchers!<br /><br />
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This past spring we had some passing visitors on our pond. I spent over
half an hour crouched on our dock trying to get good shots of these
small seabirds that stopped by on their way back to Alaska and Canada.
They are Buffleheads! For some reason I never got around to posting
these shots, so I decided to share them now as a nod to all our
migrating feathered friends....and maybe those of us who wish we could
fly south for a warmer winter too!<br />
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This guy was floating to the surface after a dive. It is the most interesting thing to watch! They dive down deep and then you have to wait a while for them to resurface...and when they do they raise so slow and steady it is almost like they are on an little elevator. It is really cool and the one thing I can't convey in still photography! But I did my best in the shots below to catch them while diving to eat. <br />
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Day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the 11<sup>th</sup> hour on the
11<sup>th</sup> day on the 11 month in 1918 a cease fire on the western front
was declared during World War I.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And all
over the world people rejoiced because armistice, a truce, an agreement to
peace, was reached. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Veteran’s Day was
established to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>remember the cost that
this peace came at….so in honor of all those who served, fought, and even died I decided to visit a few of the local memorials today.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Dirge
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<b><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">By
Walt Whitman</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">The last sunbeam</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">Lightly falls from the finish’d Sabbath,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">On the pavement here—and there beyond, it is looking,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Down a new-made
double grave.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lo! the moon
ascending!</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">Up from the east, the silvery round moon;</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">Beautiful over the house tops, ghastly phantom moon;</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Immense and silent
moon.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I see a sad
procession,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">And I hear the sound of coming full-key’d bugles;</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">All the channels of the city streets they’re flooding,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As with voices and
with tears.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hear the great
drums pounding,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">And the small drums steady whirring;</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">And every blow of the great convulsive drums,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Strikes me through
and through.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the son is
brought with the father;</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">In the foremost ranks of the fierce assault they fell;</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">Two veterans, son and father, dropt together,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the double
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the bugles,</span></i>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">And the drums strike more convulsive;</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">And the day-light o’er the pavement quite has faded,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the strong
dead-march enwraps me.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the eastern sky
up-buoying,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">The sorrowful vast phantom moves illumin’d;</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">(’Tis some mother’s large, transparent face,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In heaven brighter
growing.)</span></i></div>
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dead-march, you please me!</span></i>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">O moon immense, with your silvery face you soothe me!</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">O my soldiers twain! O my veterans, passing to burial!</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What I have I also
give you.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The moon gives you
light,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">And the bugles and the drums give you music;</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">And my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans,</span></i></div>
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Those states on the east coast get all the perks of bordering the ocean....beach days are just part of the game. But so are hurricanes. While the Midwest does not get the daycation fun of living close to the beach, we also escaped the large scale havoc of Hurricane Sandy. We just got rain. Lots of rain. A fine steady rain for days and days.<br />
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For Ohioans this meant compounding an already common dreary weather forecast for this time of year. So to keep from feeling as glum and gloomy as it looked outside, I gave myself a photo assignment to keep occupied. My original goal was to shoot a whole week of rainy weather shots with only my 50mm prime lens. But then a pair of lovely cardinals out the window made me run for my 300mm zoom! <br /><br />
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I had to shoot through the window screen, which at first made me mad. It made getting a clear, crisp, focus on the cardinals a little challenging. But with the wet rain it kind of created a nice diffused look.<br />
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These beautiful creatures were hunkered down in our almost bare plum tree. Seeing them out in that steady rain really makes me amazed at how hardy these delicate little critters are, and how God is looking out from them in all seasons.<br />
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I also have been playing with my white balance settings on the old D90. Hence the nice warm saturated colors of the female cardinal here....but the shot near the top of my post sort of had a blue cast. That white balance sure can change the look of a shot!<br />
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The next day I also got some shots of some finches taking shelter in a little tree outside our kitchen window. I started looking closely and noticed this little female finch actually appeared to be roosting! I thought she might be preening at first, but her head was tucked in so she must have decided to take a little nap.<br />
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Right when I was about to hang up the camera and get some lunch for myself, this downy woodpecker swooped in and landed right in from of me! So of course this delayed my lunch a little longer....but I think it was worth it? Don't you?<br />
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Hope you enjoyed these rainy day shots. At least I found some way to pass the time for a whole week of rain!<br />
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This is the third post in my series of fall photos from around town. My first one started off with some photos of squirrels that I took while shooting photos at Firestone Cemetery. While shooting the large old growth maples, I ended up reading some of the gravestones as well. Then I photographed a few.<br />
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Walking through a cemetery seems a tad morbid, or at least that is my general impression. But it was actually kind of a thought provoking photo excursion.<br />
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First of all, the cemetery is rather old, and I couldn't help but notice some old civil war soldiers graves. It is always a solemn experience to stand at the grave of a soldier who fought for our nation. I feel to pause and remember them at their resting place is one of the best ways to honor their sacrifice, and one of the few ways to really reflect and remember our history.<br />
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But there were also a lot a family markers. Rows of family members buried side by side. This one on the left was unusual, as it was a pillar with the graves going around it in a circle, instead of a row.<br />
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I was struck by a couple of the markers, especially this one for John Sturgeon. I have a nephew about that age, and I was reflecting on the fact that the stone engraved his exact age to the day<span style="color: #943634;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="color: black;">, honoring every day he was with them.</span><i> </i></span></span> I wondered about how the boy died, and thought how sad that must have been for his family. <br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The
Ministry Of Tears</span></b><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">by
DeWitt Talmage (1832—1902)</span><br />
<span style="color: #31849b; font-family: "Century Schoolbook","serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">"God shall wipe
away all tears from their eyes." <br />
Revelation 7:17</span><br />
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village cemetery, I looked around and said: "There is father, there is
mother, there is grandfather, there is grandmother, there are whole circles of
kindred"; and I thought to myself, "Together in the grave– together
in glory." </span></i></div>
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their tears gone. No trouble getting good society for them. All there, are
kings, queens, princes, and princesses.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This shared grave was one in a line for this family. Again, I felt a pang of sorrow at the loss of these two babies. But as I read more stones I had a curious sense of peace mingled with that sorrow.</span></span><br />
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All the stories and sorrows of all these people have been forgotten. Their trials and troubles in this earth have long since been buried with them. The sorrow of a husband a<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">t</span></span> the death of his wife or of a mother losing her baby...their sadness is over, they are laid to rest, and all those burdens are gone. The good or evil people did in their lives is passed away, the hurts they left, or the joys they gave....so in a sense it was rather a comfort to think that all the sadness is now gone.<br />
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It made me feel more appreciation for my loved ones, less stressed about all the big problems, and more joyful knowing that whatever troubles come, someday they will be tucked away in the earth and forgotten...by me and everyone else. So fret less, love more, and maybe once in a while read some gravestones.<br />
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It is a good thing that I got out two weekends ago to see some fall color. After two or three very windy days all the trees are starting to look decidedly bare and winter like. This is part two of three of the fall color around my little town. Please enjoy and I look forward to sharing some unusual shots this coming Sunday.<br />
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I started my fall color quest along a usual route that I take towards work. I noticed foliage turning along the old railroad crossing. I took this quick shot out the car window.<br />
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Next I headed over to Firestone Park looking for some fall colors. I found part of the park was having some improvements made so some of the best colored trees had all kinds of caution fencing and construction nonsense cluttering up what would have otherwise been nice pics. So I found alternate photo subjects.<br />
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I enjoyed taking some pics of the mallards swimming along the little pond. Ducks and birds are a continual favorite for me since they are full of activity and interesting poses! <br />
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This drake was getting ready to flap his wings, and I like this shot that shows off that blue stripe on the wing. This is a courtship display...so he was showing off for some nearby lady. (Pretty sure it wasn't me he was trying to impress!)<br />
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A couple of dabblers. I really caught an awesome shot of two drakes dabbling which made some nice ripples in the water. Dabbling is the term they use for how some ducks feed...instead of diving down all the way into the water, they actually stick their heads down in the the water, bottoms sticking up above the water. I think they look like fishing bobbers! <br /><br /><br />
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Once done at the park I drove around the surrounding neighborhoods looking for fall colors. I think being under the golden yellow, vibrant red, and flaming orange, canopy of maples was more fun in person, and I wasn't really able to do it justice.<br />
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And for some reason I kept seeing kitty cats all over the place too! <br />
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They were so cute and fuzzy!! I was able to snap pics of only two of the furry felines....I half wonder if they were out trying to hunt all the squirrels that were out in full force scurrying all over people's yards.<br />
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A cozy fall display that made me crave a pumpkin donut or apple pie! Saving the best foliage pics for last...here is one shot that's color rendered just as it looked in real life...and THAT kind of color is why I love fall!! (Plus as a kid orange was my absolute hands down favorite color. Consequently it was also my favorite flavor popsicle, dum-dum, and juice.)<br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We all see these little guys pick up the pace when the leaves start to turn, hopping all over, running to and fro. A common sight, <span style="font-size: small;">so</span> most of us don't really think about the provision God has made for these little creatures. For months they will have to rely on caches of nuts to survive winter. We all know God provides them with the acorns and nuts off the trees...but did you know God gave these little guys amazing brain power....better than me and you?!!</span></span><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"These squirrels
are not putting any flag there, they are not smelling the nuts, they are really
remembering the exact location of their nuts," said neuroscience
researcher Pierre Lavenex. "They use information from the environment,
such as the relative position of trees and buildings, and they triangulate,
relying on the angles and distances between these distant landmarks and their
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be possible for humans, said Lavenex. "People can do this for a few sites,
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Squirrels do this for hundreds of caches! But they store more than they can eat, so many are buried and never retr<span style="font-size: small;">ieved to be eaten....so another as<span style="font-size: small;">pect of God<span style="font-size: small;">'s Providence is for the tree<span style="font-size: small;">s! The<span style="font-size: small;">ir</span> seeds and <span style="font-size: small;">nuts get nea<span style="font-size: small;">tly buried i<span style="font-size: small;">n the ground to grow more beautiful trees t<span style="font-size: small;">hat will later feed o<span style="font-size: small;">ther squirrels! Seems like God designed that harmony <span style="font-size: small;">of continuing provision p<span style="font-size: small;">erfectly!!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">This guy was going from headstone to headstone trying to keep his eye on me, <span style="font-size: small;">while getting around me to go store his food. <span style="font-size: small;">At <span style="font-size: small;">fir<span style="font-size: small;">st he came running at me on the paved path like he own<span style="font-size: small;">ed the place but he <span style="font-size: small;">lost </span>that game of <span style="font-size: small;">chicke<span style="font-size: small;">n....barely. ;-)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This vigilant fellow scurried up the tree as I was approaching. He was clearly concerned I wanted his acorn. I read that these guys will fake out predators or potential thieves by burrowing around in the ground like they buried their nut, but instead hiding it in their cheek and burying it somewhere else instead. Smart thinking fella....but I prefer my nuts dipped in chocolate with a hard candy shell. I am territorial too...I like a big 'M' stamped on them, which stands for "MINE"!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This is still an Eastern Gray Squirrel. But it is a different type that is all black. Frankly they look alot creepier to me and this camo nonsense on the tree didn't make me feel any better! Needless to say I snapped the pic and didn't waste time getting in my car and getting out of there!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Stay behind the lens everyone...but only as long as it takes to snap the picture...then use those getaway sticks!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6752267758667746715.post-28976317276585151972012-10-09T23:42:00.000-04:002012-10-09T23:42:40.573-04:00Buggin' Out!<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Casting a long shadow</td></tr>
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Buggin' Out. That is what I do when I see a bug. I think that is where the phrase originated, if I were to guess. I don't much like spiders, earwigs, beetles, or creepy crawly anything. There are a few exceptions though.<br />
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Lately I have been busy at work or doing pre-winter house chores so I haven't had as much time behind the lens as I would like. I painted the dock on our pond, and lost many minutes off my life by being startled by spiders that make the cracks and crevices of the dock their home.<br />
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But this past month I twice had unexpected encounters of the bug kind that led to some decent shots to share. But luckily both times I had brave men with me to protect me in the event things went horribly wrong and the bugs attacked!<br />
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This praying mantis parked himself right in the middle of the sidewalk....although he seemed more afraid of us and kept running away if I got too close. The macro 300mm came in handy so I could get a close-up without getting up in his grill.<br />
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A week or so after my run in with the praying mantis, my nephews came
over for a stroll and found some grasshoppers on the driveway.<br />
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Immediately the walk was put on hold while they tried to catch the hopping creatures in their hands. Of course then they came running at me, with hands cupped, grinning wildly as I shrieked like a girl (which makes sense) and ran away!<br />
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But like their father, they are a friend to all creatures, so no grasshoppers were harmed in the making of this film. ;-) A firm catch and release policy is adhered to....unfortunately these little men will later learn that their fearlessness in the face of bugs will later be used against them by some squealing female who demands they, "kill it! kill it!" Oh wait....that has happened already....since this week I had the boys killing stink bugs that crawled through the gap in the screen door. This is a no fly zone, and the boys happily obliged, assassinating a dozen or so stink bugs.<br />
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Anyway, back to the blog post at hand. The boys caught so feisty grasshoppers, one of whom, would not leap from his captors hand, and afforded me the excellent shots below. <br />
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This is lady hawk. Or at least that is what my mom has dubbed this female red-tailed hawk that lives in our front field. She has been here for a few years, and likes to perch on our trees to watch the field for prey and intruders into her territory. This past spring lady hawk had a new perch on the electric pole at the end of our driveway, and every day coming home from work I would see her sitting there, watching my car as it went by. So one day I decided to try and get pictures since she seemed acclimated to my car driving past. <br />
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She did stay still just watching me for a minute or two and then flew down to the next electric pole....so I rolled down towards her and took a few more shots. It didn't take long for her to go further down the road into a tree, where she watched me some more, and finally I decided to stop pestering her with my photo taking. <br />
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For some reason I never got around to sharing these photos, but I thought since I posted a bird of prey last week, why not do a follow up post.<br />
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Oppression turns
princes into roaring lions, and judges into evening wolves: it is an unnatural
sin, it is a sin against the light of nature. No creatures oppress those of
their own kind. Look upon the birds of prey, as upon eagles, vultures, hawks,
and you shall never find them preying upon their own kind. Look upon the wild
beasts of the forest, as upon the lion, the tiger, the wolf, the bear, etc.,
and you shall find them favorable to them of their own kind; and yet men
unnaturally prey upon one another—like the fish in the sea, the great
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Oppression is a sin
against that great and common rule of equity, Mat. 7:12, "So in
everything, do to others what you would have them do to you." Now no man
in his wits would have another to wrong and oppress; and therefore he should
not wrong or oppress others; and therefore no wonder if God punishes this sin
with flames of fire! It is your oppressors, O London, who has turned your glory
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God, who did truly fear him in that great city. It is a sin they have often
bewailed and lamented before the Lord in their solemn addresses to God. Where
this sin is rampant, where it rules as a prince upon the throne, it is a clear
evidence that the fear of the Lord is not in such men's hearts: Lev. 25:17,
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I have a recurring dream/nightmare. It is that I finally come face
to face with a real live owl, either A) I don't have my camera, or B) I
have it and am trying to snap up close pictures as fast as I can, but
can't get zoomed in enough. I think ONCE I had this dream and I took
great up close shots, and then I woke up disappointed....because it was
just a dream. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Ammo of Camo!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here's looking at you kid!</td></tr>
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Well
today my dream/nightmare came true!!! I was taking a walk in the local
suburban park, which was filled with tons of people. Boardman Park has
several nature trails in the woods and I thought it would be nice just
to stretch my legs...I took the camera because I felt like it had been a
while since I posted on the blog, and thought maybe I would see a good
tree or flower...something...anything...for a post.<br />
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taking a few forks in the main trail, I ended up back on the paved
path, and a HUGE bird
of prey flew across the path just in front of me!!! All I could do is
gasp as my mind to tried to process what I just saw....A MASSIVE OWL!!!!
He (or she) landed a couple dozen yards inside the woods, still
visible from the trail. I quietly and slowly walked down the path to
try and get a good view.....trouble was I could see the owl with my
naked eye but as soon as I looked into the camera viewfinder I could not
find it!! For five minutes I struggled to see it in the camera, every second terrorized it would fly away and I would lose my chance! I
shifted down the trail a few more steps and finally found some
success....and for about another minute the Barred Owl stayed perched,
swiveling it's head, looking around....and looking at me. Finally the
inevitable happened and this glorious bird of prey took flight into the
woods. Not awarding winning and up close as can be....but still not too
bad for a complete unexpected encounter of the owl kind!!!<br />
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Apparently from what I read about Barred Owls, seeing one active in the daytime is pretty rare....however if I had been better informed about Barred Owl habitat I would have known this section of the park was just what this type of owl likes! Wet woodlands, with some swamp, with undisturbed old growth trees that have hollowed out.....and this is EXACTLY what I saw on all the trails before seeing the owl. <br />
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What a great day behind the lens!! Filing this one under "fantasy photo"!!! Thanking the Lord today for a great personal encounter with one of His most incredible creatures!<br />
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I took the hound trio out for a walk this nice summer evening since the thick rain clouds that lingered most of the day were finally breaking up. I had been watching a show on TV about America's national parks and was in awe of the grandeur of the mighty works God has blessed us with in our country. During my walk I was sort of struck by how mountain-like those clouds could feel...so while I was bumming I didn't live out west with the grand mountains and canyons....I did get to see some grand clouds! <br />
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C.H. Spurgeon, August 19, 1856</span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"…the clouds are the dust of
his feet." Nahum 1:3</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">But if there be one
book I love to read above all others, next to the book of God, it is the volume
of NATURE. I care not what letters they are that I read—whether they are the
golden spellings of the name of God up yonder in the stars, or whether I read,
in rougher lines, his name printed on the rolling floods, or see it
hieroglyphed in the huge mountain, the dashing cataract, or the waving forest.
Wherever I look abroad in nature I love to discern my Father’s name spelled out
in living characters. I would do as Isaac did, go into the fields at eventide
and muse and meditate upon the God of nature.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I thought in the cool
of last evening—I would muse with my God, by his Holy Spirit, and see what
message he would give me. There I sat and watched the clouds, and learned a
lesson in the great hall of Nature’s college. The first thought that struck me
was this—as I saw the white clouds rolling in the sky—soon shall I see my
Savior mounted on a great white throne, riding on the clouds of heaven, to call
men to judgment! </span></i></div>
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clouds are to us! There we see them sweeping along the skies! Then they rapidly
increase until the whole sky gathers blackness and a dark shadow is cast upon
the world; we foresee the coming storm, and we tremble at the mountains of
cloud, for they are great. Great things are they? No! they are only the dust of
God’s feet! The greatest cloud that ever swept the face of the sky, was but one
single particle of dust, stirred up by the feet of the Almighty Jehovah. When
clouds roll over clouds and the storm is very dreadful—it is but the chariot of
God, as it speeds along the heavens, raising a little dust around him!
"The clouds are the dust of his feet." Oh! could you grasp this idea
my friends, or had I words in which to put it into your souls, I am sure you
would sit down in solemn awe of that great God who is our Father, or who will
be our Judge!</span></i></div>
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decided to take advantage of being down on the Ohio River and take a few
pictures while I was there. On the border of West Virginia, along the Ohio River, is the city of Marietta. I passed through this city a lot as a teen, traveling between my home in Northeast Ohio and our new home in Charlotte, NC....but even though I was familiar with the city as a favorite stopping point in the 8 hour car ride for lunch and a restroom break....I never knew how beautiful the town was or how much history was here! Marietta was the first American settlement in the Northwest Territory. George Washington explored the area as a young surveyor in 1770, and wrote of it's beauty and potential settlement. In 1788, Washington said, "No colony in America was ever
settled under such favorable auspices as that which has just commenced
at the Muskingum...If I was a young man, just preparing to begin the
world, or if advanced in life and had a family to make provision for, I
know of no country where I should rather fix my habitation..." In 1787, Benjamin Franklin said, "I have never seen a grander river in all my life."<br />
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It was awesome to stand and see the Harmar Bridge, once a covered bridge, converted for the B&O railroad, now a walking bridge, glowing in the summer night across the lazy Ohio. I love the mix of historic architecture and nature....seeing and feeling how people came to live around and tame the grandeur of creation in period of time with far fewer conveniences and technological advancements....it was pretty cool! <br />
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Marietta and Washington County are known for covered bridges, old barns, and rolling farmlands. Despite more threats of summer rain, it was worth the venture out into the hills, with no GPS or cell phone reception, just to see a few of the sites before jumping on the interstate and heading home.<br />
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One of the exciting and unplanned subjects was this baby fawn bolting across a hayfield as I stood getting ready to photograph a covered bridge. An old pickup honked as it dashed across the road, and I looked up in time to grab a series of shots....perhaps not the best but the excitement was enough to demand that I share the thrill I caught on "film".<br />
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Also saw a piece of American art too!<br />
One of the iconic Mail Pouch painted barns! I live near one that is in worse shape and in a worse setting so it was fun to see this nice one and get to snag a couple shots.<br />
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Frustration mounted as I seemed to always point my camera in the wrong direction of where lightening appeared, and as soon as I moved it, a great display of bolts would strike where I had just been aiming!! Now if only I had a wider angle lens to capture more sky at once! <br />
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I have a feeling I will get better with practice. I have a great location for watching lightening....our second story front porch! It provides some cover, unless the wind picks up with the rain, and then I am driven indoors to protect the camera equipment.<br />
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It was great fun! So please enjoy these pics, and be sure to keep scrolling as some really interesting ones are last. I didn't do the cloud to cloud stuff justice due to the porch roof and the lack of a super wide angle lens, but you can get the idea of the whole sky lighting up. It was breathtaking! <br />
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I normally don't adjust my photos, but on a few of these (which I will mark) I played with some settings to let you see what the camera lens detected and in a split second our minds might not register. (I am convinced our eyes see this because the lens of our eyes is the most sophisticated on earth!) I bumped up the color saturation in the above photo so you could see the color of the lightening, pink and blue! In a flash it seems white, but it is actually colorful!<br />
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The contrast on this was bumped up a bit to show the intensity of the lightening as it really appeared.<br />
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Cropped the porch roof out of this one to really show the tentacles off that bolt of lightening.<br />
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I like this one above because it almost is an optical illusion with the lightening fingers looking like layers of clouds. <br />
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Imagine this shot but across the whole sky....I just captured a little piece of that as it moved 360 around the porch! <br />
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The wind chimes blowing in the foreground. They were swaying softly with the left over breeze from the storm after it was past our house, and this 30 second exposure shows that little bit of motion blur.<br />
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All in all it was a fantastic 4th of July night, and while many may have been bummed out by the storms that rolled in, they were the icing on the cake to my Independence Day!!<br />
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I hope to be able to share more lightening shots soon, but remember what the weather service says....if you can hear thunder, you can be struck by lightening. ;-)<br />
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It was forecast to be nice weather, but then they changed it to 50% chance of rain. But then of course it cleared up to be perfectly sunny. While sunny is nice in general, it actually makes waterfall photography difficult. So the ND filter was put to the real test! This pic to the right is a view of the cliff where I took pictures of the falls. The same goes for the pics below. <br />
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A view of the top of the falls. The layers of shale were so gorgeous! It made me think of all the large thin, flat, hunks of shale we used to find up on Lake Erie's shores when we were kids. They are perfect for skipping stones. The guys used to compete for who could get the most skips on one throw....I think my Dad was the best at it. ;-)<br />
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Yesterday was another perfect summer day. Eighty degrees with sunshine and cotton candy clouds. But for some reason I was in the house most of the day, so after dinner I thought a nice drive out in the evening air would hit the spot.<br />
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As more clouds rolled in, I could tell the sunset had potential to be a great....or a total bust. As it turns out it was a little of both.<br />
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The sunbeams were breaking through the clouds and could be seen perfectly from a freshly threshed (say that ten times fast!!) straw field. After inadvertently disturbing a lovely doe from her leisurely graze in the field, I snapped some photos of the early setting sun.<br />
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It was a pretty nice set up for a roadside photo op, and just behind me out of view is a little pond at the bottom of another hill. Gotta love those rolling hills of farmland! <br />
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After exhausting all possible viewpoints at this location, it was time to get back in the car and head down the road to find another potential spot to see the sunset.<br />
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Unfortunately, the clouds rolled in thicker, and there was no commanding view to be found facing the west on the country road we were cruising on. Finally we reached the big local fairgrounds and decided to stretch our legs....and those photos will make up tomorrow's post!<br />
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Old barns a plenty around our town. Couldn't tell from this photo but this one sits on one of the busiest state routes in the region!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6752267758667746715.post-52373375938463325162012-06-14T10:13:00.000-04:002012-06-14T10:13:52.539-04:00Watering Flowers<br />
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Yesterday was a beautiful summer day. Sunny, breezy, blue sky, and finally nice and warm after a chilly morning. Since the forecasted quarter inch of rain earlier in the week inexplicably missed our house I decided it would behoove the flowers to give them a drink from the hose. I snapped a few photos of our flowers along with some of my special assistant.<br />
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Coincidentally, the Spurgeon devotion I read (this morning because I was
a day late!) seemed to fit nicely with these photos. So if you missed
it too....enjoy it now!<br />
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Spurgeon’s June 13<sup>th</sup> Devotion from “Faith’s
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it every moment: Lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day. (Isaiah 27:3)</span></b></div>
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speaks in His own proper person rather than through a prophet, the word has a
peculiar weight to believing minds. It is Jehovah Himself who is the keeper of
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little foxes and the boar. Therefore, the Lord Himself is our Guardian, and
that at all hours, both "night and day." What, then, can harm us? Why
are we afraid! He tends, He waters, He guards; what more do we need?</span></i></div>
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the Lord says, "I will." What truth, what power, what love, what
immutability we find in the great "I will" of Jehovah! Who can resist
His will? If He says "I will," what room is there for doubt? With an
"I will" of God we can face all the hosts of sin, death, and hell. O
Lord, since Thou sayest, "I will keep thee," I reply, "I will
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Special assistant Houdini taking a water fountain break. Please note the tooth marks in the hose....he punctured a hole in the hose before I even connected it last week. (I found out when I turned on the water and got soaked!) Now I see it was a part of his plan to stay hydrated in the summer sun.<br />
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What I find funny is that he has no compunction about being sprayed in the face and soaked with water! But I shouldn't be surprised since last week he ran through sprinklers watering the backyard like a little kid, arriving back at the screen door sopping wet, as though he had just had a bath. The other two hounds sat nearby...completely bone dry! They are not so young at heart! <br />
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Since it was hot as a tamale outside I anticipated a colorful sunset.....which I was correct about. But the tricky part is chasing down a sunset. When you don't have a specific location in mind, and you just set out driving looking for a good spot to see the setting sun, and you usually end up pretty frustrated, missing most of the sunset. (This happened on <a href="http://howgreatthouartphoto.blogspot.com/2011/08/adirondacksits-not-just-chair.html" target="_blank">my trip to upstate New York</a>! And I was madder than a wet hen about it!) It is tough to find that perfect combination of altitude and a clear view....at least if you want to photograph something other than a strip mall. (Some of the best darn sunsets I see are in one of the busiest plazas around here, and it makes me think how awesome it would have been 100 years ago!)<br />
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So, here are the results of chasing a summer sunset. Maybe the photos don't do it justice but it sure was pretty in person!<br />
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Love seeing the old farm homes with the year on the roof with the slate shingles!!! <br />
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I liked the twinkle of the porch light in the first shot, so I took a close-up. At this point the clouds rolling in were getting thicker and beginning to ruin that perfect sunset glow, but I still liked that porch light.<br />
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Two weekends ago was a much awaited spring thrill for me....tulip time!!! This smorgasbord of photos is just a small fraction of the hundreds of frames I shot at the Fellows Riverside Rose Garden at Mill Creek Park.<br />
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It was sunny, a tad warm in the sun, a little chilly in the breeze, but overall a nice afternoon of tulip gawking.<br />
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The smooth delicate petals, the bright colors, all a magnificent display of God's handiwork in my most favorite kind of flower! So I beg you pardon for the superfluous pictures in this post but it was the least I could share!<br />
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Also, I could not find a reading long enough for this post, so I decided since a picture was worth a thousand words, I would just let the pictures of God's creation do the talking this time. So enjoy! <br />
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For all the pictures and excerpts I have posted on this blog, there is one thing that really cannot be conveyed in the photos. I thought since this is Easter weekend, this would be the perfect time to pair this reading with some random photos of God's Creation, and remind us all of one thing that is needful.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Morning Thoughts”</span></b></div>
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man. Divine love was the last perfection of Deity to baffle the research of
human wisdom. Other attributes might be dimly traced in creation. Some faint
glimmerings of God's wisdom, power, and goodness might be seen in the
"things which are made;" but how God could love sinners, could redeem
and save sinners, was a question to which nature's oracle returned no response. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In the exercise of the vast powers with which his Creator has endowed him, man
may discover everything, but this. He sweeps the firmament above him with his
telescope, and a new constellation of surpassing glory arises before his view.
He delves into the earth beneath him, and an ancient and long-lost city is
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The sunbeam paints it
not upon the brilliant cloud; the glacier reflects it not from its dazzling </span></i><i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">brow;
the valley's stream murmurs it not in its gentle music; it thunders not in the
roar of ocean's billow; it sighs not in the evening's zephyr; it exhales not
the opening flower; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">all nature is
profoundly silent upon a theme so divine and strange, so vast and tender, as
God's redeeming love to man.</b></span></i></div>
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So enjoy scrolling through the rest of these pics, but remember that for all the photos posted and all the wonder we see when we look at nature....the most amazing piece of information is still concealed only in God's Word. Only when we pick up and read our Bibles will we discover God's love toward man, His payment to redeem His elect people, and the true glory of God.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsEKaSMybncdZRPaR-H7EoqCIlSGCJegXTIifVjuJ6f0lmM7VzFuIbppqWnWI8GyPVZl3kT_yJg1JfSzHPWWkISIV1pMtyc5X6Ngtrg73HljmBEJzjxXrqiqUbVOvADRZNfv7A55nYEBag/s1600/048.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsEKaSMybncdZRPaR-H7EoqCIlSGCJegXTIifVjuJ6f0lmM7VzFuIbppqWnWI8GyPVZl3kT_yJg1JfSzHPWWkISIV1pMtyc5X6Ngtrg73HljmBEJzjxXrqiqUbVOvADRZNfv7A55nYEBag/s320/048.JPG" width="212" /></a> Last week the weather seemed more reminiscent of summer than it did spring. Sunny and temps in the 80's <i>demanded</i> that I shrug off some afternoon work and head outdoors to capture all the buds and blossoms on the trees. Our pear and plum trees burst with flowers seemingly overnight. But one day I noticed during this rash of nice weather a bright red exclamation point on my Weather Channel app on my phone that alerted me of a hard freeze warning. The rug was being pulled out from underneath sandal wearing feet! So last weekend, with a chill in the air that indicated this warning was all too true, I headed to a local municipal woods that is known for it's naturalized bluebells. I just had to see if they were a full month early like our blooming trees and capture some photos before this freeze! Here are the results of my two day photo adventure that took me from sleeveless shirts to shivering with a jacket on in less than 24 hours.<br />
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Charles Spurgeon:</span></b><i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let us begin with the
mark of beauty. There is a great beauty in a fruit tree when it is in bloom.
Perhaps there is no more lovely object in all nature than the apple blossom;
but this beauty soon fades — one shower of rain, one descent of hail, one puff
of the north wind, and very soon the blossoms fall like snow; and if they
remain their full time, speedily indeed in any case, they must withdraw from
view. Much loveliness adorns youthful piety. The love of his espousals, his
first love, his first zeal, all make the newborn believer lovely. Can anything
be more delightful than our first graces? Even God himself delights in the
beauty of the blossoming believer. “I remember you,” says he, “the love of your
espousals, when you went after me in the wilderness.”</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Autumn has a more
sober aspect, but still it rivals the glory of spring. Ripe fruit has its own
peculiar beauty. As the fruit ripens, the sun tints it with surpassing
loveliness, and the colors deepen until the beauty of the fruit is equal to the
beauty of the blossom, and in some respects is superior. What a delicacy of
bloom there is upon the grape, the peach, the plum, when they have attained
perfection! Nature far excels are, and all the attempts of the modeler in wax
cannot reach the marvellous blending’s of color, the matchless tints of the
ripe fruit, worthy of Eden before the fall. It is another sort of beauty
altogether from that of the blossom, yielding to the eye of the husbandman, who
has the care of the garden, a more ravishing sight by far. <b>The perfumed bloom
yields in value to the golden apple, even as promise is surpassed by
fulfillment. The blossom is painted by the pencil of hope; but the fruit is
dyed in the hue of enjoyment.</b></span></i></div>
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Here are a few shots of an evening fishing with a spring chill in the air. My shoes were soaked with dew and my skin was icy cold when I went back up to the house....but a sure sign of spring in action is seeing my sister's ducks being attracted to the bobbers in the water, and watching bass, perch. walleye, and even carp being pulled out of the water!<br />
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The coolness of the evening while fishing should have let me know how chilly it would be to walk through Poland Woods, but with so much bright green adorning all the land and scads of blossoms out....it was easy to look out the window and be deceived that it was warmer outside. <br />
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So here is a preview of a hopefully more successful photo trip to Poland Woods in the next week or two. I just hope the hard freeze didn't kill these plants that were coaxed into coming out to play early, as I was! Enjoy the shots below from the rest of my chilly walk in the woods and remember to stay behind the lens!<br />
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After a freakishly mild winter, we are having some freakishly early spring weather! Ohio springs are usually more of the same as in winter. Clouds, rain, and cold temps. Imagine our shock to be hit with MANY warm sunny days very early this year. It is so convincing even the plants outside have been fooled into popping a full month early.<br />
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So, I gave myself a weekend photo assignment so I could get out and take advantage of this great weather, and enjoy every little nuance of this early bird spring. My assignment was simply looking for signs of spring! Friday after work I took a walk and didn't get far before I saw some real tell tale signs. One of our maples was full of red buds...others on the horizon I noticed were taking a reddish cast as well. This was the beginning shot of a very productive photo weekend....so productive in fact I had to chop my "final photos to share" list in HALF! (Had to make my post length reasonable, right?)<br />
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So please enjoy these shots I took, and be sure to head outside as
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Please also enjoy a couple spring hymns and a short thought by Charles Spurgeon. Because what could be more enjoyable than to reflect on our loving Creator when we are appreciating His works! <br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">At the same time it is undeniably right that thy praise should never
cease; and were men to be silent, the very stones would cry out. We must begin
eternal life here below, not only in our conscience, but also with our praise.
Our soul ought to be like a flower, not merely receiving the gentle influence
of heaven, but, in its turn, and as if in gratitude, exhaling also a sweet and
pleasant perfume. It should be our desire, as it once was that of a pious man,
that our hearts should melt and dissolve like incense in the fire of love, and
yield the sweet fragrance of praise.</span></i></div>
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GLORY OF THE SPRING HOW SWEET!</span></b></div>
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Thomas Gill:</span></b></div>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I greet Thy going
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I love Thee in the
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Of Thy renewèd earth.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">These nobler works of
Thine,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">These marvels sweeter
far to trace,</span></i></div>
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faith so strong,</span></i></div>
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prayer!</span></i></div>
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in me</span></i></div>
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Thine;</span></i></div>
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graciously</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> Renew this heart of
mine.</span></i></div>
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strength upspring,</span></i></div>
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given;</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> And grant the glad new
song to ring</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> Through the new earth
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SPRING AGAIN IS HERE</span></b></div>
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here,</span></i></div>
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bloom appear;</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Hark! the birds with
artless lays</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Warble their creator’s
praise.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Where in winter all
was snow,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Now the flowers in
clusters grow;</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">And the corn, in green
array,</span></i></div>
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to me,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Let me feel like what
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Speak, and by Thy
gracious voice,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Make my drooping soul
rejoice.</span></i></div>
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smile,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Raise the plants,
enrich the soil;</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Soon Thy presence will
restore</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Life to what seemed
dead before.</span></i></div>
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Of course, seeing our kitty outside hunting for cuddles is a sure sign of spring!! In the cold of winter she usually stays inside her fancy heated cat box (yeah, she's THAT spoiled!) But when the weather turns for the better she starts sucking around for extra pets and cuddles she missed during the snowy season. We call it "Filling up her tank".Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0