It’s amazing what a little bit of saturation can do—okay, maybe a LOT of saturation can do.
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Nothing like a visit to the most beautiful part of the United States, the northwest, to improve one’s state of mind. IRC friends from New Jersey, Utah and Oregon met for several days of beachcoming, crater viewing and get-together fun. I’d love to go back and relive those days, not only for the beauty and fun of it all, but because one of us has gone to the great divide and others are no longer together. But for all the sadness, the memories are priceless and forever.
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Over 40 years had past since the last time I had visited Crater Lake National Park. No hand-feeding of chipmunks on this trip, but plenty of hand-rubbing, as it was plenty cold. Still, the drive was beautiful and the lake was stunning.
Contemplation was the order of business during this post-sunset scenario at a place I can’t even remember where. It was still cold.
And this was the sunset that greeted us at this unknown place.
A brief stopover at Jedediah Smith Redwood State Park resulted in plenty of greenery. There were some mighty tall timber that day on our way to the Pacific Ocean.
I was trying to get a shot of the waves breaking over this rock aways off shore when this darn flock of birds got in the way and ruined the whole thing. You can imagine how upset I was. The funny and sad part about it—I was. LOL Now I look at it and think to myself—wow! How cool.
The western United States has its own version of the Twin Towers in the twin volcanoes of Mt. Shasta, northern California. Fortunately, these twin towers are still there. I’d hate to think what would result if these two blew their tops.
This photograph didn’t appear in the local newspaper, but one like it did, along with an article talking about our IRC get-together. What a time it was. It will always be remembered. I actually like this one better.
There’s not a lot of ABCs out here in the country, so I had to come up with a little ingenuity in order to meet this week’s challenge. I hope I passed the audition. Love to you all. Have a great day!
Comments are always welcome.
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The ABCs of LOVE
Here is a little piece of Smithfield Reservoir north of Kansas City, Missouri. I wanted to do this in black and white, which is something I don’t normally do, because color just didn’t do it for me. I beefed up the contrast 100 percent and cropped out the extraneous part of the photograph that I originally thought more highly of. I believe I sharpened it just a bit also. I hope you enjoy it.
Smithfield Reservoir, north of Kansas City, Missouri
Ghosts of Children
Wherewith hath come
The screeching wind
That withered frame
And emptied rooms,
That sent mice racing
To their holes,
While ghosts of children
Play in the grass?
Oh, the times they change
But life moves on,
Yet their skeletons
Stay behind
With stark remains
Of joy and pain
While ghosts of children
Play in the grass.
Cris Coleman
August 15, 2015
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The night has been unruly: where we lay,
Our chimneys were blown down; and, as they say,
Lamentings heard i’ the air; strange screams of death,
And prophesying with accents terrible
Of dire combustion and confused events
New hatch’d to the woeful time: the obscure bird
Clamour’d the livelong night: some say, the earth
Was feverous and did shake.
(Macbeth, 2.3)
Angels symbolize all things good to me. While typically thought of as female in the modern age, and even in the middle ages, they were male in the Bible. At least, I’m not aware of any female angels in the Bible. I could be wrong, however, as I haven’t read the ENTIRE Bible yet.
If there is anything honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, hopeful, virtuous, lovely, of good report, praiseworthy, we may attribute these qualities to angels — male or female. It is these qualities we must strive to obtain if we are to reach our highest reaches of humanity.
Angels are also protectors and providers of and for those who seek to do God’s will. At least, there are many examples of this in the Bible. And we certainly hear of many contemporary anecdotes of angels coming to the assistance of people in need in many different ways.
“Thou madest him [man] a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands.” (Hebrews 2:7.)
Now, what it means to be “a little lower than the angels” I am not prepared to say, only that with a little effort and a lot of help from God, we can perhaps obtain these qualities that would put us in the presence of angels and make them our friends.
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Angels we have heard on high
Silhouettes come in all shapes and sizes. A sunset is a perfect place for a silhouette. This one was taken from the steps of my back yard as a lark. Which one looks better to you? Or do they all look crappy? 🙂
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Sunset in my back yard.
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©2014 Cris Coleman All Rights Reserved
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This photo challenge foregoes the straightforward in favor of the twisting and winding.
One never knows what one can find when traipsing down the old gravel/dirt road that passes my house. So, I grabbed my camera and went exploring, expecting to take photographs of the small wildflowers that line the road’s shoulders.
I was nearly back home, after taking many pics, when I spotted this zig-zaggy tread that I had been walking over the entire time. Talk about not seeing the forest for the trees. Well, anyway, here it is.
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There are a number of types of current, all related to the flow of something. For instance, there are river currents, electric currents, the flow of time (the number one definition in dictionary.com) and air currents.
Below are two examples of air currents as related to chemtrails. (Contrails disperse after a very short distance and fade away, as they consist of water vapor.)
In the first photograph, we have quite an anomaly. The chemtrail shows an impossible shift in direction, or it may be that the plane suddenly changed directions, however unlikely. In the second photograph, we have more regular air current dispersals.
But back to the first photograph. This chemtrail, in both of its directions, is quite straight. It show very little air current deviation.
It’s hard for me to imagine any kind of air current that could accomplish such a feat. It’s also hard for me to imagine any kind of aircraft that could accomplish such a feat, except, perhaps, a UFO. However, UFOs, at least from the purported photographs I have seen, do not leave chemtrails.
If you have any ideas what could have caused such a course deviation, I’ve love to hear from you. And, no, I did not doctor up the photographs, except to darken it just enough to make the chemtrails a little more clear. I’m not that good.
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f-stop fantasy 