Photo Challenge: Lines, by Man and by Nature

When I took this picture of the forward passenger deck of the Washington State Ferry Puyallup, the lines just drew me in.  Curved lines, straight lines, against the horizon line in the distance. And then there are the lines created in the sky by Nature-clouds which you would normally think of as curved line up …

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Weathered, Creations of Man, and of Nature

This building was originally built in the twelfth century, in England.  The Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds.  Much of it has weathered away, with the help of the local people, who often used the fallen stones for new buildings.  But even the ruins are beautiful. This spectacular example of Nature's Creation, weathered, is Bryce Canyon …

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Celebrate our Beautiful Country

Every day, I give thanks to have been born in the Greatest Country on God's Green Earth.  Our country is one of the most beautiful on Earth, with terrain ranging from blazing hot deserts, to grassy prairies, to high snow-capped mountains, to chains of beautiful blue lakes.  The American people are the most generous in …

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Weekly Photo Challenge: States of Mind: in Awe of Nature

I love going to the mountains, God's Big Construction Project (and also destruction project).  These mountains, in Zion National Park in Utah, used to be at the bottom of a big shallow sea.  Notice the many layers of rock, first deposited over millions of years, then thrust into the sky. https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/state-of-mind/

What Societal Permission of “Homosexual Marriage” Really Means

In case you have not noticed, more states in the USA are re-defining Marriage to include two people of the same sex. For approximately 5,000 years, the concept of Marriage has meant one Man and one Woman, joined by a ceremony in either a civil setting or a religious one, and sometimes both. When one …

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