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I use every resource at my disposal to identify this heron whose image I captured this weekend as he waded in and out of the water and snatched a blue-tipped damsel fly out of the air. Every bird identification tool I use confirms he's a tricolored heron - from ...
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And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.
2 Corinthians 9:8
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It's not quite 7:00 when I stop at the top of the bridge long enough to capture the sun rising over the misty river. It's not the first time I've done that - foot on the brake, grab the camera and shoot. Five seconds, tops. My friend insists that ...
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Come later this summer, the delicate pale pink blooms of the beautyberry will develop into tight clusters of glossy, iridescent purple berries that give this native beauty its name. Beautyberry grows wild in the moist thickets along Pollywog Creek - often entangled in grapevines and hidden by rusty lyonia ...
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Every day I have a choice – to choose despair or delight, grumbling or gratitude, pugnaciousness or peace – despite my circumstances. I'm at Bible Dude this morning...won't you come on over and tell me what you think? I'd like to know - when has affliction been grace for ...
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I'm greeted by a delightfully cool morning breeze and a chorus of chirps as I slide open the doors to the back porch. A small grey squirrel munches on feed that's spilled out of the bird feeder and onto the ground, and an adult male cardinal and his brood ...
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Pollywog Creek flourishes green from recent early summer rains, and as I rest on the banks of the pond this sabbath afternoon, I soak in the goodness of the day. I do love Sundays - from waking to the aroma of fresh coffee and Louis frying bacon for the ...
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Let the morning bring me word of Your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in You. Show me the way I should go, for to You I entrust my life.
Psalms 143:8
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I'm back in the plastic surgeon's office, fumble with my phone and post this status on my facebook page: I always feel like a country bumpkin when I have an appointment with my plastic surgeon in her up-scale office. My wise friend Dawn challenges my faulty perspective by immediately ...
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In my wanderings about lately, I've given up pushing past momentary difficulties - choosing instead to simply sit on the ground and rest where ever I happen to be when the energy and effort to take one more step escapes me. I've come to appreciate this ground-level perspective - ...