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Suzuki: Trust me Dexter, you have to try it! It taste soooooooo good!
Dexter: But it looks like spooge!
Suzuki and Dexter discussing the finer things in life!
Felbrigg Hall is a 17th-century English country house near the village of that name in Norfolk. Part of a National Trust property, the unaltered 17th-century house is noted for its Jacobean architecture and fine Georgian interior. Outside is a walled garden, an orangery and orchards.
Taken from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felbrigg_Hall
I agree this looked to me like a fairly sturdy structure. But it has stood vacant for quite a few years. The reason I believe is that it stands at the near-edge of a cliff that has been eroding for quite some time as the Souris River meanders through down below! That river as everybody in the vicinity knows did a nasty job of flooding it's banks this spring. The house in question is in the photo. If you click on the link you will see the house in background pointed out. And that mighty river is not so mighty in the photo. But if you browse through my pic's you will see the damage this river created when it was mighty!
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The old house stands empty and the people who once lived there made a choice to leave it as they could not trust it's stability any longer.
The apostle Paul reminds us that our heavenly Father grafted us into His family through our faith in Jesus Christ, and that Jesus Himself pursued a relationship with us so we could come to know and trust Him. (see Galatians 4:5-6 and see 1 Peter 3:18).
But lets face it, trust is a choice, a risk we take and it is not always an easy choice to trust someone we don't know. And if our relationship with Christ is new we will never learn to trust Him unless we risk walking with Him! Much like the people who lived in the old house, they did not know that when they built the house it would become unstable. That's why trust is a risk and we will never learn whether someone or something is worthy of our trust unless we take that risk. And that's exactly what God invites us to do. Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good, David says, blessed is the man who trusts in Him! (Psalm 34:8 KJV). God wants us to take that risk with Him!
When you take that risk to walk with the Lord, you will find out for yourself that He is a trustworthy guide with your best interests and safety at heart and you will learn to trust Him. The Lord is good, a refuge in times of trouble. He cares for those who trust in him (Nahum 1:7). With all the turmoil going on in this big old world, God still remains focused on us. Everything He has done through the ages reflects that!
In the Garden, He pursued us.
In the ark, He protected us.
In the wilderness, He provided for us.
And on the cross, He proved to us that He alone is worthy of ultimate trust.
Because God is trustworthy, what He says is also trustworthy. In the beginning was the Word says John, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God (John 1:1). It is impossible to separate who God is from what He says.
The psalmist says that God's Word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path (Psalm 119:105). There will be times when your path through this old world will be dark, times when you will desperately need His light to guide you. And when the shadows of life hide Him from your view, you will need the light of His promise that He will never leave you nor forsake you (Joshua 1:5). When life's circumstances rob you of your security, you;ll need the beacon of His assurance that He knows what you need before you ask him (Matthew 6:8). We can trust His Word to guide us when life is dark because He can see better than we can. A man's ways are in full view of the Lord, and because he examines all his paths (Proverbs 5:21). Why don't we trust the Lord? Why don't we trust the words in the bible? Why do we trust our feelings more than we trust what God tells us?
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Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement. ~Alfred Adler
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It's Monday! Have a great week everyone!
What may look like companionship was really nest protection. A heron will eat most any moving thing and the redwing blackbird followed him on his hunt through the marsh staying between him and his nest.
A National Trust sign for Sandhills Common.
Taken on a walk from Witley to Haslemere, from the Time Out Book of Country Walks
You can always trust a guy like me... You, my friend, are in good hands...
5Dm2 +24-105L, lighting below. I dont normally post lighting diagrams but thought some people might find this one interesting.
BTW, I reveal some fiz-iks secrets here.
Northern Counties Palatine bodied Volvo M223SVN (223) new to Stagecoach Cleveland Transit in June 1995, is seen on static display at the South Yorkshire Transport Trust's 'Summer Time Special' event in Rotherham.
23rd July 2023
Osterley House (National trust), Osterley Park, Osterley, Isleworth, Hounslow, London, England, etc. Grade I listed buikding. When we got here, I went to the gift shop and bought new batteries for my camera, just so I could photograph this National Trust property.
Hertfordshire GOC's 9 November 2013 walk, which was an 8.3-mile point-to-point walk from Kew Gardens station to Osterley station, via Kew Bridge, the River Thames, Brentford, the Grand Union Canal, Norwood Green, and Osterley Park. It rained up to lunch and occasionally my camera lens got wet, so some photos may have blurred spots. Please check out the other photos from the walk here, or to see my collections, go here: www.flickr.com/photos/anemoneprojectors/collections/. For more information on the Gay Outdoor Club, see www.goc.org.uk.
The first couple of days post-chemo are always sort of... a guessing game.
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Which side effects will show up this time? Funky sense of taste? Nausea? Pain?
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On the pain front at this point it's really more of a when than an if- but in a good turn, the gabapentin has made a HUGE difference. I took it this morning when I first woke up and had no pain at all today- first time in weeks. Amazing.
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So far, nausea is making a solid appearance this round- it was noticeably absent the last 2 cycles so this was a bit of an unpleasant surprise. It's not so much the nausea itself as it is that it always seems to go hand in hand with extreme hunger. Two very contrary physical states. Frustrating at best.
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I did manage to eat a few times today. My appetite overall seems to e returning in general. Even with all the walking I did last week, and the influx of veggies in my diet- I gained 9 pounds since my last cycle.
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As a chronically fat girl, I'm almost ashamed to say that set me back a little bit emotionally. I've mentioned here before the struggles I've had with self-esteem, with body image. About how much work I did mentally and emotionally to get to a place of peace with my body pre-Cancer.
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I stopped placing any intrinsic value on the nubmers on my scale a long time ago- I know that pre-Cancer, I was pretty healthy. Good blood pressure, no blood sugar issues, good labs, good bloodwork, healthy heart. Despite naysayers and concern trolls- my fat body was in pretty darn good shape.
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All I had to do was accept it, learn to love it the way it was. And I did. But then Cancer happened. And in the rush of illness, and surgery, and more illness, and more surgery... I stopped being able to eat real food. I lived on pop-ice for several weeks. Then 2 weeks of soups and protein- no carbs. Cue post surgery and almost no appetite at all. Radiation and a severely reduced ability to keep food IN my system even when I could eat.
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In the process of all of it, diagnosis, surgery, recovery, treatment- over the months since all of this really began- I've lost almost 45 pounds. And I'm not interested in congratulations- like I said, those numbers stopped meaning anything to me a looong time ago.
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The thing is, body-positivity, like so many things is a never-ending process. And I'd be dishonest if I said that 9 pound gain-back didn't bother me a little. Deep down, back of my mind bothered. Looking at it logically I can see it as a good thing. My diet has been sincerely lacking in all of this. It's one of the first questions I get asked every time I see my Oncologist: "how's your appetite? Are you eating enough?" A gain means that my appetite is normalizing. A gain means that I'm finally eating enough, or getting there.
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At the same time, gain scares me for a different reason. Right before I was finally diagnosed- well, I guess for about the 5-6 months before my appetite exploded. I was hungry all the time, could never get enough. And after a major lifestyle change with regard to the food I ate- it was a big deal. Turns out it was probably indicative of the tumors that were distending my uterus, and my abdomen by extension.
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I know, logically, that my scans came back clear. That the treatment has worked, is working. I know that if something was there, they would see it. But my increased appetite, those measly 9 pounds, they still scare me. They still remind me of when my illness was hidden, unknown.
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I know, logically, that this is a good thing. A sign of returning health.
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But this is a process, as always. So maybe it's time to go back to the work of it. To facing myself in the mirror, to soothing myself with lotion and massage. To remembering that they're just numbers. To acknowledging that I have a committed, dedicated and brilliant medical team watching over me.
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So I go back. Back to learning to accept change. Back to learning to sit in my own space. Back to trusting in myself, to listening to my body and yes- my appetite. My body can be trusted.
My body can be trusted.
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My body can be trusted.
I put my trust into you guys in letting you lead the way on this walk…..And now look……We are lost in the deepest jungle miles away from any civilisation ……And to make matters worse…… I swear I caught a glimpse of a python snake in the poison yellow plant undergrowth……And for goodness sake don’t look behind you now, but I swear that is a black widow spider on the gate …..And don’t get me started on the pack Lions I can hear behind the hedge row……Gulps…..Now form a ring of steel around me to protect me from this place and get me back to civilisation as quickly as you can……..What do you mean that I have over exaggerated our problem by calling a worm a snake……A money spider a black widow…..And a herd of dairy cows a pride of lions ……And making a butter cup into a poison plant……And that the facts are, that we are in the Oxfordshire countryside, in middle England……..Ummmmmmmm…….Well okay…….Maybe it was a bit of over reaction on my part……But you should know by now….. That I like to see a pub or two on our walks……And look as I might……I really don’t see one……Do you….No …..I thought not……What that you say…..You have packed a couple of beers in my camera bag for me to sit and enjoy……. That’s great news guys……Now come and sit close with me whilst I enjoy…..And let me say that I never really doubted you guys……As I always knew I could trust a Sheltie to get it right ….
My taxi failed to show (third time my local firm has let me down) so I ended up hacking across London. Just to reduce my anxiety I tried to make sense of WS-Trust.
The Trust Walk, a long-standing Swarthmore Orientation tradition that leads new freshmen from campus to a special spot in the Crum Woods, is often cited among students' most memorable experiences.
photo by June Xie '11
These are the new life's hand and his grandfather's. It's wonderful to see how the baby abandons his hand on the bigger one. The baby's hand and the other one, two generations older, melt together in this simple gesture of trust. Trust should never have barriers.
Estas son las manos de la nueva vida, y la de su abuelo. Es una maravilla ver cómo el niño abandona su mano en esa otra más grande. En este sencillo gesto de confianza se funden la mano del niño y otra, dos generaciones mayor. La confianza no deberÃa nunca tener barreras.
Visitors' Rooms, 1893 - Acanthus Room. Bed made in Italy or England c1860, incorporates Italian marquetry, mother of pearl and ivory panels made c1700, depicting Adam and Eve and other scenes from the Bible
Title: [President Theodore Roosevelt Delivering the Trust Speech
Creator: Underwood & Underwood Studios
Date: August 23, 1902
Part of: Doris A. and Lawrence H. Budner Theodore Roosevelt Photograph Collection
Place: Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
Description: On August 23, 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt gave a speech in Providence, Rhode Island.
Physical Description: 1 photographic print: gelatin silver; 26 x 21 cm
File: ag1984_0324_19_1r_speech_opt.jpg
Rights: Please cite the Doris A. and Lawrence H. Budner Theodore Roosevelt Collection, DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University when using this file. A high-resolution version of this file may be obtained for a fee. For details see the sites.smu.edu/cul/degolyer/research/permissions/ web page. For other information, contact degolyer@smu.edu.
For more information and to view the image in high resolution, see: digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/bud/id/102
View the Doris A. and Lawrence H. Budner Collection on Theodore Roosevelt collection: digitalcollections.smu.edu/all/cul/bud/
Happy Caturday :)
Stevie was snuggled in my hand , purring ~~
Melts my heart :)
(took photo with other hand )
Stevie is about the same , goes to Vet on Wed. for tests .
Montreal's Place Montreal Trust was opened in 1988 as part of the Cadillac-Fairview chain of shopping centres, but, in 1995, it was sold to Ivanhoe (now the Ivanhoe-Cambridge corporation).
It has fewer stores than the "next-door" (across McGill-College Avenue) Centre Eaton, but it has several stores with a much larger surface area than anything in the Centre Eaton, including Zara, Indigo Books and Music, and Mexx.
The Mexx store takes up the space that used to be occupied by the ill-fated Montreal Planet Hollywood restaurant. By the time Planet Hollywood made it to Montreal, they were obviously out of pairs of Dorothy's ruby slippers or copies of Darth Vader's helmet, so the collection of movie memorabilia on display left much to be desired. I never went up inside the restaurant proper, but the Sainte Catherine-level entrance had a few items, with the two things I remember well being a model house from the Christian Slater disaster movie, Hard Rain, and some sort of rubber pig mask thing from Space Truckers.
"Look, honey, a model house from Hard Rain! Somehow, just because of seeing that here, I must feel like paying $20 for a hamburger."
Place Montreal Trust is also where the downtown Montreal Marks & Spencer store used to be located before the chain folded in Canada in 1999. I didn't care much for their St. Michael's clothing line, but I do miss their British food items, especially the frozen shrimp curry, the toffees in the blue wrappers, and the shrimp cocktail chips. I can buy other brands of those at other stores in Canada, but they don't taste as good as M&S's.
Set amongst the peaks and slopes of the Derwent Valley, between Rowlands Gill, Gateshead and Burnopfield, County Durham.
The Estate was previously owned by the Bowes-Lyon family. Since 1965 in has been in the ownership of the National Trust.
Gibside differs from many estates in that the main house, although grand, was not the focal point of the estate.
The long walk actually runs from the Column of Liberty to the chapel and the mansion is located to one side.
The house became vacant in the 1920s after death duties forced the Bowes-Lyon family to scale back its lavish lifestyle and give up some of its great houses. The building was stripped of its fixtures and fittings, with many of the fireplaces and other items being transferred to Glamis Castle.
Parts of the structure were demolished in 1958, including the removal of the roof, and the remains are protected by Grade II listed building status.
Parts of the grounds have been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest, including a forest garden that is currently under restoration.
There are several outstanding buildings, including a Palladian chapel and others awaiting or undergoing restoration.
The Banqueting House has been in the ownership of the Landmark Trust since 1981, the building having been restored from a derelict shell.
Prospect Tower is a folly on the Cotehele Estate. It has three sides and is 60ft high. When the National Trust was given the Cotehele Estate in 1947 the Trust renovated the tower and constructed a wooden spiral staircase inside, to allow visitors. The Tower was last renovated in 2018 and is still open to the public