I forgot about this little series taken during our community’s annual Hot Air Balloon Days’ parade. While waiting for the parade to begin, a church member’s four-year old granddaughter found the perfect playmate with whom to dance in sync – herself.
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Our family time in Florida is always spent combing the beach for treasures. My sister and her granddaughter’s reflected features were captured in this shot with the late day’s sun reflection in the water.
Her search was successful, finding this small sand dollar!
Ben at WordPress asks: This week, in a post created specifically for this challenge, show us an image that says REFLECTION. Click HERE for more examples of “reflections.”
In honor of the first day of Spring, I’ve changed my header* and added a late entry to the “inside” challenge theme. While visiting my sister’s home in Richmond last Spring, I found her beautifully blooming azaleas were attracting Tiger Swallowtail butterflies and bumblebees. Here are just a few of the hundreds of shots I took of these insects plunging “inside” these blooms for nectar and pollen.
Josh R. suggests: Showing things relative to other things allows you to emphasize a particular subject (a ship in a bottle), show juxtaposition (a clown drinking in a bar) or abstract themes (oil in a puddle). The “inside” idea can be as wide-open as your imagination wants to make it. From the simple to the absurd, it works on almost any level. Click HERE for more “inside” entries.
* I mentioned the seasonal change of this blog’s header in The Seasons of Life.
Here’s another example of “perspective” – post a photo which is not what it seems to be. Make sure you share what the photo actually is of in its caption!
Garden Angel
Praying for no more snow!
This should be the scene in a few months!
Ash challenged WordPress photo bloggers to post a photo which is not what it seems to be.
My wife loves making snow people. Last February, I came home to find her assembling a miniature snowmen choir, singing away (or so I thought).
Miniature Snowmen Choir?
However, when I saw the means by which she was assembling their bodies, I wondered if their expressions were instead screams of pain – spaghetti noodles through the head into the body…ouch! I never knew her sadistic side.
OUCH!!!
Click HERE for more examples of “perspective.” Below are a couple of my wife’s creations from February 2012.
For this week’s photo challenge, show us abandoned. You can go literal, as I have, and share a photo of ruins, a desolate place, or your idea of a wasteland. – Cheri
“Forsaken”
On a rural road, I see a homestead is falling,
At some time abandoned by some other calling.With broken windows and peeling paint,
The farmhouse stands in silent complaint.“Once a warm shelter, I stand now unheated
My family has left me, alone I’m defeated.My porch on which children once played
Has fallen, in collapsed ruins it’s laid.Curtains carefully chosen to enhance my décor
by shattered glass are ripped and lay on the floor”“Who lived here,” I wonder, “ and when did they leave?”
The farmhouse stands, falling, alone to grieve.
Perhaps the most distressing words in the crucifixion of Christ were “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” (Matthew 37:46, KJV). This cry of anguish by the Savior, the same words of the David in Psalm 22:1, have caused theological debate over the type of abandonment Jesus suffered on the Cross. To me, John MacArthur sums it up well:
There is no way to explain it. Maybe we’re helped a little bit to understand that even in His incarnation there was a separation. Did you know that? Because in John 17:5 He says, “Father, Father, return Me to the glory I had with You before the world began.” So there was some kind of relationship that He had before his incarnation that He wanted back. So in the incarnation there was some degree of separation and now in his sin-bearing death there is another degree of separation. He is separated from God. [1]
Whatever it meant for Jesus to be forsaken, His death on the cross secured salvation for those who believe in Him and who abandon themselves to His lordship, so that mankind no longer has to feel separated and alienated from God. In Jesus’ final “marching orders” to the disciples, He promised, “I am with you always, even unto the end of the world” (Matthew 28:20, KJV), never to be abandoned again!
1. From John MacArthur’s sermon “A Closer Look at the Cross.”
Rural Iowa Pastor 