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Jeremiah 17:5,-10

Psalm 91

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Is é Yeshua rí ríthe agus tiarna na dTiarna

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Psalm 91

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High

Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

2I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress;

My God, in Him I will trust.”

3Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler

And from the perilous pestilence.

4He shall cover you with His feathers,

And under His wings you shall take refuge;

His truth shall be your shield and buckler.

5You shall not be afraid of the terror by night,

Nor of the arrow that flies by day,

6Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness,

Nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday.

7A thousand may fall at your side,

And ten thousand at your right hand;

But it shall not come near you.

8Only with your eyes shall you look,

And see the reward of the wicked.

9Because you have made the Lord, who is my refuge,

Even the Most High, your dwelling place,

10No evil shall befall you,

Nor shall any plague come near your dwelling;

11For He shall give His angels charge over you,

To keep you in all your ways.

12In their hands they shall bear you up,

Lest you dash your foot against a stone.

13You shall tread upon the lion and the cobra,

The young lion and the serpent you shall trample underfoot.

14“Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him;

I will set him on high, because he has known My name.

15He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him;

I will be with him in trouble;

I will deliver him and honor him.

16With long life I will satisfy him,

And show him My salvation.”

Grèbe huppé ( Podiceps cristatus - Great Crested Grebe ) by Jean-Luc Foucret

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Hier, je suis resté 4 heures pour assister à cette belle scène de vie animalière que j'affectionne particulièrement car ce sont des oiseaux que j'aime beaucoup observer à distance..!!

Les grèbes se relaient sur le nid et le consolide...

Il y a quatre oeufs ....

Il faudra attendre la naissance des grèbes huppés.....

C'est la première couvée de ces grèbes huppés.

J'espère assister aux naissances.

Le Grèbe huppé niche entre avril et juillet.

À cette époque, les adultes portent une double huppe et des oreillettes brunes encadrant la tête.

Le nid peut reposer sur un fond vaseux mais il est conçu en principe pour affleurer la surface.

Il peut également flotter mais il est alors arrimé à une souche ou à un paquet de végétaux entremêlés.

Les adultes en garnissent la coupe peu profonde de végétaux qui servent à recouvrir les œufs si les adultes s'absentent du nid. La ponte est composée de 3 à 6 œufs blancs qui virent ensuite au brun et deviennent de ce fait plus discrets.

Les adultes couvent en se relayant toutes les quelques heures. L'éclosion intervient au bout de 28 jours.

Les jeunes sont capables de nager aussitôt mais ils restent dépendants de leurs parents plusieurs semaines.

Un grand merci à toutes et tous pour vos visites et vos commentaires qui sont toujours très appréciés.

Source: Oiseaux.net

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Yesterday, I stayed 4 hours to attend this beautiful scene of animal life that I particularly like because they are birds that I really like to observe from a distance..!!

The grebes take turns on the nest and consolidate it...

There are four eggs...

We will have to wait for the birth of the great crested grebes.....

This is the first brood of these great crested grebes.

I hope to attend the births.

The Great Crested Grebe nests between April and July.

At this time, adults wear a double crest and brown ear flaps framing their heads.

The nest can rest on a muddy bottom but it is designed in principle to be flush with the surface.

It can also float but it is then secured to a stump or a bundle of intertwined plants.

The adults fill the shallow cup with plants which are used to cover the eggs if the adults are absent from the nest. The laying is composed of 3 to 6 white eggs which then turn brown and therefore become more discreet.

Adults brood taking turns every few hours. Hatching occurs after 28 days.

The young are able to swim immediately but they remain dependent on their parents for several weeks.

A big thank you to all of you for your visits and your comments which are always very much appreciated.

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Smile on Saturday: meet cute

Taken at Australia zoo.

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Paphos harbour

rusted but secured by Photoloth

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Secured Life ....... !!! by Mithila Azad

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Secureness by Jerdess

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In a cocoon of green

A Poem by Maaddi Benazzi

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youtu.be/F73TrMcdaCk

T'was the night before Christmas

he lived all alone

In a one bedroom house made of plaster and stone

I had come down the chimney with

presents to give

and to see just who in this dweling did

live

I looked all around a strange site to

see

No tinsel, no presents, not even a

tree

No stockings on the mantle just boots filled

with sand

On the wall hung pictures of far

distant lands

Medals and Badges, Awards every

kind

A sobering thought came alive in my

mind

This house was different, it was

dark, it was deary

I had found the home of a

soldier

I could see that most clearly

The soldier lie sleeping, silent, alone

Curled up on the floor in this one

bedroom home

His face was so gentle, the room in

such disorder

Not at all how I pictured a

United States Soldier

Was this the hero of whom I'd just read

Curled up on a poncho, the floor for

a bed

Then I realized the other families

that I saw on this night

Hold their lives to soldiers, who are

willing to fight

In the morning around the

world, the children would play

Grown-ups would celebrate a bright

Christmas Day

But they all enjoy freedom each

month of the year

Because of soldiers like the one lying

here

I couldn't help but wonder, how many

lay alone?

On a cold Christmas Eve in lands far

from home

The very thought brought a tear to my

eye

I dropped to my knees and I

started to cry

The soldier awakened, I heard his

ruff voice

Santa don't cry, this life is my

choice...

...I fight for freedom, I don't ask for

more...

...My life is my God, my country, my

core

The soldier rolled over and drifted to

sleep

But I couldn't control it and I

continued to weep

I kept watch for hours... so silent and

still

as both of us shivered from the cold

nights chill

I didn't want to leave him on that cold

dark night

This guardian of honor, so willing to

fight

then the soldier rolled over with a

voice soft and pure

He whispered Carry on Santa, it's

Christmas Day...

...all secure One look at my watch

and I knew he was right

Merry Christmas my friend, may God

Bless you this night

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I'd watched her hunting from the side of the road.

Easy pickings and she was up in an instant.

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...feeling secure... by Sir Zexri

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1930 Rolls-Royce at the car show ~ Staatsburg, NY

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45 Days 'til... by Silke

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#MacroMonday

#Puzzle

...there's a secure vaccine against Covid-19? I wish it would happen so soon. What definitely is guaranteed, though, is that from today it's 45 days until Christmas Eve :) And whether you celebrate or not, I'm sure that on everybody's wishlist is also a vaccine.

I had little – or rather no – other choice for "Puzzle" but this Ravensburger Christmas bauble jigsaw puzzle ball, because I don't own any other puzzles. I love to play Adventure games, and puzzles are a part of the gaming routine, but real life puzzles? Nil. So back to the bauble: It depicts a cosy forest Christmas scene with lots of snow, a starry blue hour sky, a Christmas tree (of course) and the forest animals – such as deer, squirrels, rabbits, birds – gathering around various feeders; in short it depicts almost everything that makes you go "Aaawwwww!" when you think of Christmas (please see the fourth comment to see the whole bauble) :) At first I really didn't know how to photograph this pretty puzzle ball in an interesting way. But then I thought "I puzzled it together, so I can also take it apart again, let's take a look inside." What looked like a fragile construction consisting of 60 parts (diameter of the ball: 7 cm / 2,7 inches, the small round parts which you can see here each have a diameter of 4 mm / 0,15 inches) proved to be very sturdy and definitely "take-apart-resistant", but in the end I succeeded to pull out one piece from the starry blue hour sky.

On the inside, the pieces are white, of course, but they are also numbered, and at first I thought I'd pick piece No 1, but then I remembered that I'd already shot numbers on a toy piece for "one Color", so I looked for a nice puzzle piece pattern instead and found this star. I secured the backlit puzzle ball between two large pieces of modeling clay to prevent it from rolling away (it had happened a few times in the beginning), and photographed directly through the hole where piece No. 60 had been; the shape of the vignette is the negatice space of missing piece No. 60.

The photo is a single 40 MP High-Res mode shot, and I had to do a lot of dusting and fuzz removal. Those dark spots, however, are part of the plastic pieces, so I didn't remove them all. Processed in Topaz DeNoise AI ("Low Light" mode at N: 7, S: 67, R: 3, CN 14), Luminar 4 (Detail enhancement – small at 79, medium at 41, large at 3), Viveza and Analog Efex.

Happy Macro Monday, Everyone, stay safe and take care!

Noch 45 Tage bis... zu einem sicheren Covid-19-Impfstoff für alle? Schön wär's. Was wir aber alle ganz sicher in 45 Tagen feiern werden: richtig, Heiligabend :) Und ein sicherer Impfstoff dürfte auch auf jedermanns und jederfraus Wunschzettel stehen. Warum aber dieser Schlenker zu Weihnachten, wenn das Thema doch "Puzzle" ist? Weil das einzige "richtige" Puzzle, das ich im Haus habe, ein Ravensburger "Christmas Puzzle Ball" ist. Bestehend aus 60 erstaunlich fest zusammenhaltenden Puzzleteilen.

Zuerst wusste ich nicht recht, wie ich ihn ansprechend fotografieren sollte; von außen ist er nett anzuschauen, zeigt eine Weihnachtswaldszene mit viel Schnee, einem Sternenhimmel, natürlich einer geschmückten Tanne und vielen Tieren, darunter Rotwild, Eichhörnchen, Hasen und vielen Vögeln, die sich an diversen Futterkrippen zum Weihnachtsschmaus eingefunden haben. So weit, so hübsch. Aber ob das ein spannendes Foto ergeben würde? Also dachte ich mir, ich entferne mal eines der Puzzleteile und schaue hinein. Die Rückseite der Puzzleteile ist weiß und jedes trägt eine Nummer. Zunächst habe ich auch auf die Nummern fokussiert, genauer auf Teil Nr. 1, aber dann fiel mir wieder ein, dass ich bereits für "one Colour" vor zwei Wochen die winzigen Nummern auf einem Spielzeugteil fotografiert hatte. Deshalb habe ich dann nach einem interessanten Puzzlemuster Ausschau gehalten – und fand diesen Stern.

Von hinten beleuchtet (und die Kugel mit zwei Stücken Bastelknete fixiert, weil sie anfangs immer wegrollte) und direkt durch das Loch, das Puzzleteil Nr. 60 hinterlassen hat, hindurchfotografiert. Die Ränder der Vignette sind also der negative Raum des fehlenden Puzzleteilchens. Ich musste ganz schön viele Fussel in PS entfernen; die dunklen Pünktchen sind aber in den Plastikteilchen drin, also habe ich nicht alle von ihnen weggestempelt. Entwickelt in Topaz DeNoise AI ("Low Light" Modus, N: 7, S: 67, R: 3, CN 14), Luminar 4 (Detailverbesserung, klein: 79, mittel: 41, groß 3), Viveza und Analog Efex.

Ich wünsche Euch eine schöne Woche, liebe Flickr-Freunde, bleibt gesund!

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All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.

2 Timothy 3: 16-17

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Ship tied up at the dock. Redwood City, California.

Secure the Boats by Katie Cassap

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