Shortly before 8:00 this morning, Ruby came back in to urge me to go out for a bit and look at some frost designs. I’ve seen them before, but I’m always amazed and awed by them. I took some photos. They don’t need captions. Read it all
nature
Photo: It Made Me Think of Nevada
But maybe it should have been Utah.
Yes, it made me think of Nevada: The barren landscape, the carved canyons, the shadows cast by the recently risen sun.
Ruby wondered if I meant Read it all
Oregon Sunrise: Hopewell Mennonite Church
I captured it with my little flip phone a few minutes ago.
The Christian Bares of Trillium Lake?
Laid bare: a lake, a mountain, and other handiwork of the Creator
Yesterday we had a family outing to Trillium Lake. (It was a birthday thing.)
This morning early I thought back on the other vistas of God’s creation which awaited us there. And I wondered…
- How many of those nude legs belong to women worship team members?
- How many of those barely covered breasts have the heart of a female Sunday School teacher beating behind them?
- How many Christian male eyeballs tracked back for one more discreet look?
- How many Christian men wrestled with wistful wishes, treacheous thoughts, and deadly desires?
- How much ache in the Creator’s heart?
- Will His heart have any revulsion in church services today?
You could read that as me looking down my nose on fellow Christians or fellow fallen humans. You could accuse me of being a Puritanical prude. You could charge me with contemptuous condemnation. You could slam me for sanctimonious something-or-other. And you’d be wrong.
I’m not blind to the beauty of forbidden fruit, OK? But in my other-world moments I look beyond eyeball-grabbing displays and feel compassion. Read it all
Oregon Coast: Helicopter Rescue
If you keep an eye on the tide and the breakers, you'll be OK...
My OregonLive RSS feed showed a dramatic helicopter rescue story. I like helicopters and Depoe Bay, so I clicked.
I looked at the photo and thought, “That rock sure looks like one I’ve climbed various times over the decades. That’s got to be at Fogarty Creek!”
Sure enough: Read it all
Full Harvest SuperMoon
As seen near Hubbard, Oregon, the night of September 9, 2014
“And God made two great lights;
the greater light to rule the day,
and the lesser light to rule the night:
he made the stars also.”
(Genesis 1:16)
the greater light to rule the day,
and the lesser light to rule the night:
he made the stars also.”
(Genesis 1:16)
The big night was September 8-9, 2014. The three photos I got that night aren’t so great.
So here are my photos the following night, taken 8:04-8:19 pm (Pacific) on September 9.
Supermoon rising behind trees east of Hubbard, Oregon USA
“The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork” (Psalm 19:1).
Blood Red Moon Full Lunar Eclipse Expectations
What I expect to experience...
It’s coming to a solar system near me. Any time now.
What shall I expect?
- Y2K finally?
- The battle of Gog and Magog?
- Martial law?
- The Russian annexation of Ukraine?
- The collapse of Windows XP?
- A heartbleed leaking all over the Internet?
- The Rapture?
- A solar flare setting us back to the Neanderthal age?
- The West Coast falling off the United States?