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Continuing with the 2022 AAPRCO excursion photos, here we see the train on the FEC K Branch crossing the 1920s St. Lucie Canal lift bridge. After arriving at Marcy (diamond where the CSX Auburndale Sub crosses the K Branch), USSC 148 ran around the train and was paired up with EMD GP11 #308 for the trek back to Clewiston.
This year we end the Seven Days of Thanksgiving series in Paprihaven on the day after. Why? While it is wonderful to have a day set aside specifically to acknowledge our impossible debt to God by expressing our gratitude, every day should truly be a day of thanksgiving. After the amazing celebration at the Simmons,* the girls are back at Tracy's house.
Tracy: Wow. So tired. What a great time. Thank you, God.
Buckley: I'm so stuffed! I'll sleep on this bench if I can't make it upstairs.
Tracy: Who said you're staying here??
Buckley: You gotta be responsible, Trace! You can't let me drive home in this condition.
Briar: HAHAHA!
Tracy: You're not drunk! You don't even drink!
Buckley: I'm loaded with tryptophan. I can't make it. I'm DONE FOR, offissaaAAaa!
Briar: HAHA! What's 'trippafan'?
Tracy: It's an amino acid in turkey that people say makes you sleepy. I think what happened is we all just ate too much.
Briar: I ate sooooo much! I looooved that corn casserole! Who made that?
Tracy: I think Honor did.
Buckley: Ooohhh, I'm gonna pop. Let's just all get in bed, under the covers, and tell stories til we fall asleep.
Briar: That's FUN!
Buckley: But y'all GOTTA CARRY ME UUUUUUP!
Briar: HAHAHA!
Tracy: Oh, good grief. I'm stuck with both of you tonight. Are you sure you even have homes? You're always here.
Buckley: Oh! Haha! On Paprichat, Sheila Harper posted a video of her poodle grabbing a piece of turkey from the table!
Briar: I want to see that!
Tracy: Can you not be on your phone for like two seconds? And, I want to see too. And, who's Sheila Harper?
Buckley: She's got that pretty green Jaguar? Always real shiny? **
Tracy: Oh, yes.
Briar: I wanna see the video!
Buckley: Then come over here.
Briar: Can't move. You come over here.
Buckley: Uh uh.
Briar: BuuUUUUCK!!!
Buckley: You're outta luck, kid.
*WOOF!*
Briar: Hey, Biff!
Buckley: The Biffster!
Tracy: Wow, what a great day. And now we're just chilling. Peace. Joy. Love. God is good.
Buckley: All the TIME!
Briar: All the time!
Tracy: And, all the time...
Buckley: God is GOOD!
Briar: God is good!
Tracy: Bible challenge, then we somehow struggle upstairs. God's loving kindness. Psalm 117:2, "For His lovingkindness is great toward us, and the truth of the Lord is everlasting. Praise the Lord!"
Briar: Psalm 63:3, "Because Your lovingkindness is better than life, my lips will praise You."
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Tracy: Buckley...
Buckley: Um... What's the one? "Please answer me God because you are loving and kind... and compassionate?"
Tracy: Close enough! Psalm 69:16, "Answer me, O Lord, for Your lovingkindness is good; According to the greatness of Your compassion, turn to me." Okay, upstairs! Up!
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
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God wants you to give thanks.
Well, Thanksgiving came and went. Did your gratitude last beyond your afternoon nap? For many, that’s the extent of their thanksgiving—a one-time, get-it-out-of-the-way holiday that reminds them to reflect on how blessed they are. Too often and too quickly, people resort back to being ingrates. But God wills us to be thankful all the time, in all things. That’s the point of 1 Thessalonians 5:18 where Paul says, “In everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” So if you’re saved, Spirit-filled, sanctified, submissive, and suffering, you have one thing left to do in order to follow God’s will—be saying thanks.
Paul’s simple, direct command—in everything give thanks—allows believers no excuse for harboring ingratitude. In everything carries an unlimited requirement. It refers to everything that occurs in life. With the obvious exception of personal sin, we are to express thanks for everything. No matter what struggles or trials, God commands us to find reasons for thanking Him always (Acts 5:41; James 1:2-3; 1 Peter 1:6-9). That’s His will.
If you’re not obeying that command, you’re not following God’s will. Think of it like this: If gratitude doesn’t come easy for you, neither will finding God’s will. Or to put it another way, if you struggle with being thankful, you’ll struggle with following God’s will. Need some motivation? Here are some reasons God wills you to be thankful:
God commands it:
Gratitude should come naturally to believers in response to all God has done on their behalf, but because of our hardness of heart, God enjoins us to thanksgiving with commands (Philippians 4:6; Colossians 2:7; 1 Thessalonians 5:18). Therefore, all forms of ingratitude are sinful. Paul commanded the Colossians, “And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body; and be thankful” (Colossians 3:15).
When Paul describes the believer’s Spirit-filled life, he writes, “speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord; always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father” (Ephesians 5:20). God doesn’t merely command those expressions of gratitude and leave believers helpless to comply. He enables us to articulate them (Philippians 2:13), and is pleased when we do.
Joni Eareckson Tada, who was involved in an accident that left her paralyzed from the neck down, writes, “Giving thanks is not a matter of feeling thankful, it's a matter of obedience.”
Thankfulness acknowledges God’s sovereignty:
The single, greatest act of worship you can render to God is to thank Him. It’s the epitome of worship because through gratitude, we affirm God as the ultimate source of both trial and blessing—and acknowledge our humble acceptance of both.
With a thankful heart, you can say in the midst of anything, “God be praised.” That kind of attitude looks beyond the circumstance to the plan of God. It sees beyond the pain to the sovereignty of God. It remembers, “God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose” (Romans 8:28). An attitude of thankfulness enables us to deal with those who wrong us, saying with Joseph, “As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good” (Genesis 50:20). Those who are thankful see the providential hand of God everywhere and say, “God, I thank You for the peaceful times as well as the hard times—a difficult marriage, a challenging job, a severe illness—because I know You will use those things for my good and Your glory.”
The grateful Christian remembers that suffering perfects, confirms, strengthens, and establishes him (1 Peter 5:10). God wills that kind of thankfulness.
God judges ingratitude:
William Shakespeare wrote, “How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child. Ingratitude thou marble hearted fiend.” If Shakespeare understood the hostile attitude behind thanklessness, imagine what God must think about it.
Ingratitude is the very essence of an unregenerate heart, ranking among the most intolerable sins in Scripture. The apostle Paul identified unbelievers as ungrateful: “For even though they knew God [through conscience and general revelation], they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened” (Romans 1:21). Because man in his pride fails to honor and glorify God as Creator, he also refuses to thank Him for His gracious provision. Ingratitude betrays unbelief, and both sins bring about God’s judgment.
Although God is the source of every good thing that men possess—giving life, breath, rain, sunshine, and other natural blessings to the just and unjust alike (Matthew 5:45; Acts 14:15–17)—the natural man refuses to thank Him. In his fallen mind, to thank God is to acknowledge his own obligation to worship Him.
In summary, God wills our being thankful in all things because gratitude is the ultimate expression of a transformed heart. But thanklessness can infest and destroy a church, marriage, family and home. So cultivate a heart of gratitude. Be thankful for all things and in all circumstances. That’s God’s will. Are you following it?
- John MacArthur, adapted from God Wants You To Give Thanks
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* As seen yesterday!
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/54950920265
** As seen in BP 2021 Day 107!
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/51121244013/
Previous Days of Thanksgiving on Paprihaven:
2015:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/22949342829/
2016:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/31221411415/
2017:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/37886668344/
2018:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/31063953947/
2019:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/49137396007/
2020:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/50649209702/
2021:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/51704094592/
2022:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/52521485290/
2023:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/53349976036/
2024:
...had a late birthday dinner with my sister and her family last week...
Trying to make my birthday stretch as far as it will go!
Continuing to look for light and shadows where I have not looked before. Just before bed Monday evening I spotted the light from outside shining into the foyer.
Continuing with my special flickr food channel edition, this hispid cotton rat devours a leaf.
Hispid cotton rats are omnivorous, but the major portion of their diet consists of green vegetation. They occasionally consume insects and other small animals. Field observations of hispid cotton rat diet indicate that preferred foods are the stems, foliage, and seeds of crop and wild plants.
CPKC 241 continues its charge northward on the Detroit Lakes Subdivision, originally the Soo Line's Winnipeg mainline, toward Thief River Falls and later Noyes at the international border seen here south of Winger in Polk County. Winger has a gravel road underpass at this location, which I had intended to include in the scene. However, the timing was tight, so I opted for this framing with the various prairie grasses and snow. Next time.
In Egyptian mythology, Sekhmet is a warrior goddess as well as goddess of healing. She is depicted as part lioness part human, the fiercest hunter known to the Egyptians. It was said that her breath formed the desert. She was seen as the protector of the pharaohs and led them in warfare. Upon death, Sekhmet continued to protect them, bearing them to the afterlife. The photograph was taken in the British museum, London and converted to black and white, the frame, background wall and drop shadow were all added in Photoshop Elements
Continuing on with drawing flowers that are blooming in May in my Northeast Iowa town, which is situated along the Cedar River. May 9, 2021
Continuing in my series of photos of the temperature inversion in Vancouver, I was fortunate enough to be able to capture the downtown buildings and the Lions Gate Bridge both partially covered by fog, and partially lit by the setting sun.
This is quite an unusual shot, as the fog frequently only sinks after sunset, so I was very pleased to be able to get this photo, capturing the last rays of the sun as they light up the buildings and the suspension bridge.
In this shot, you can see that the fog is higher in the west (on the right of the photo), and is actually blocking the sunlight from hitting the lower reaches of the buildings, particularly on the east side. The shallow angle of the light also highlights the peaks and troughs in the clouds.
This is a six photo panorama taken at 300mm just a couple of minutes before the sun set.
Continuing the Slimetron theme with a little exploratory rover for Febrovery!
Sourcing bright green and trans-bright green is always tough, so I kept the rover classically small. I even updated the classic space droid to function on slime!
I needed a small base for this, and found that magenta is the complementary color to bright green. It really makes the whole build pop!
And where would I be without adding some blacklight to translucent pieces… (see the pic in the album)
Check out my Space and Febrovery albums for more Lego Classic Space inspired builds!
and until daylight approaches, the ghosts and the unexplainable continues...then, who knows what will happen in November?
Continue attracting spring... :-)
Another view of that misty morning of May in our Don Valley.
*Part of my series Toronto's Tales of Dales.
赤レンガ倉庫へ向かう途中に出会った新港橋梁。廃線になって暫く経っているが橋の上だけ当時の線路が残されている。橋を渡りきれば線路は無くなっているはずなのにずっと続いている感覚に陥ってしまう。その時頭に浮かんだフレーズは「せーんろは続くーよー、どーこまーでーもー♪」
CANON EOS 7D + EF-S10-22mm F3.5-4.5 USM
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Me voy de vacaciones. Nos vemos a la vuelta!
I'm going on holidays. See you soon!!
Textura: www.flickr.com/photos/nesster/ Thanks
Continuing the northbound chase here was the tenth spot I photographed this Mass Bay special.
Granite State Scenic Railway SW1000 105 leads the Mass Bay RRE rare mileage special along the little used middle portion of the line at about MP 11.4 on the old Boston and Maine Pemigewasset Valley Branch.
To read the full story of this day and some history of the line and details about the equipment check out the caption with the earlier photo at Plymouth station.
Thornton, New Hampshire
Saturday May 18, 2024
And the archiving of my work continues. Now I am getting all of the drawings (well over a hundred), from Noёl Riley Fitch and my book “Paris Café: The Sélect Crowd,” labelled and in order. They were done in sketchbooks between 1995 and 2007. My sketchbooks are dated and numbered. Luckily, I put the sketchbook number on the back of the drawings. They had been cut out. So, it was very easy to find the year each drawing was done. Still more to do…..
Continuing the saga of my previous post we find ourselves looking at yet another set of tier 4 GEVO's. This time leading M301 as they split the ever so famous intermediates at Mile 30.
Check this post for the rest of the story of my tier 4 woes from yesterday.
My journey continued from the fox to the eagles. Plainfin Midshipman are strange and interesting fish that live in deep water until spring, when they swim into the shallows to bear their young. The females lay their eggs and return to the depths while the male remains to stand guard. This takes place in the intertidal zone where they can withstand exposure to air during low tide, breathing through their skin. Males "sing" during mating season, which comes out as a low hum, perceptible to nearby humans. They also have photophores along their body which light up when they are in deep water to both help them capture food and possibly also camouflage them. Watching the Great Blue Herons catching one after another in the shallows demonstrated the survival challenge for these fish. Herons would start first in the morning soon to be followed by bald eagles, often hazing the herons who gave up their prey with loud and bitter complaint. It was quite a show. My objective, besides having a great time doing what I love and meeting lots of other photographers, was to capture bird to bird interactions. I was inspired by Mark Smith's photography, who sets the standard for such shots and was quite helpful. Check him out: photoworkshopsandtours.com/. Here are a few shots. I'll post a few more in another post and then make a gallery of my keepers for my website. Thanks for following the journey. Mike
Continuing south in some nice late afternoon sun, NPWJ rolls through the cornfields in Newbury, as mountains in New Hampshire loom in the distance. Clarendon & Pittsford GP40-2 306 is providing the power on this trip, with eight cars bound for White River Junction trailing behind it. Despite a few setbacks, and delays, the crew will still make it to WRJ before sunset. where they will drop the cars in the south yard, and tie the power down by the station.
Continuous emissions of steam, volcanic gases, and minor amounts of ash continue at Redoubt Volcano, and have been visible in the Redoubt Hut web camera images throughout the day. These emissions have been generally been at low altitudes (less than 15,000 feet above sea level), but occasionally rise as high as 25,000 feet above sea level. Satellite images from this morning show a broad layer of volcanic haze extending east of the volcano over the Kenai Peninsula, the Anchorage Bowl, and the Matanuska-Susitna Valley. Satellite images from last night show a thermal anomaly at the vent and are possibly due to the extrusion of a lava dome in the summit crater. AVO field crews are attempting to make direct observations of the volcano today. Seismicity consists of volcanic tremor and occasional discrete earthquakes.
Continuing with Cameraderie forum joint effort for regular shooting in January; on the twenty-first day, I confess, two thirds into this challenge and shooting regularly for it became oppressive. I found myself in a place where photography became almost the opposite of what it means to me usually - a creative outlet without pressure to produce, meat deadlines and oblige clients; just a personal joy of observing and exploring the world and myself in it. Now with an (self imposed) obligation to have at least kinda pretty if not strong or meaningful image each day, I felt overwhelmed and tired and had to kick myself in the butt to get at it once again. I argued with my grumpy self that, even if I decide to drop everything, it would be beneficial to at least stretch the legs, and that by just strolling the streets for an hour or so I'm bound to stumble on something intriguing... And I did. Shot with Minolta MD 50mm f1.4 lens mounted via speedbooster on Sony A6000.
Continuing to work through all the colours from the Re-ment Addicts Colour Challenge (www.flickr.com/groups/re-mentaddicts/discuss/721576651253...).
This is Yellow, a casual writer's sunlight office.
Full Colour Challenge Album: flic.kr/s/aHskupaW5F
Completed Colours:
Black, Gray, Silver - flic.kr/p/ELEcbM
White, Cream, Clear - flic.kr/p/F6HsgM
Red - flic.kr/p/Ggut8B
Orange - flic.kr/p/GgDFHD
Yellow - flic.kr/p/Gda8Ld & flic.kr/p/Gda6yN
Green - flic.kr/p/GzY2BE & flic.kr/p/FNBQSW
Blue - flic.kr/p/GNdS2L
Purple, Burgundy, Lavender - flic.kr/p/H1koVf
Pink - flic.kr/p/HS2WwR
Brown, Beige, Gold - flic.kr/p/J8hnYS
Scottish Citylink are continuing to operate their route 900 between Edinburgh and Glasgow for key workers who require transport between the two cities.
Here is Parks of Hamilton HSK653 heading along a very quiet Glasgow Road on a service 900 heading to Glasgow. 18th April 2020.
Continuing my Astro Projection series...
It was on that pinky-blue hour in May when I had my out-of-body & lens experience on Toronto cityscapes. My experimental zoom engine drive performed well on all stages, recording this exciting journey in the multiple city dimensions...
...all brought to you by my manual zoom / long exposure magic! :-)
*It's a SOOC image, manual zooming during long exposure - no processing involved!
This is my last Indy post for a while, just wanted to knock out a few extremely minor characters that no one's gonna remember.
Barranca: The guy at the beginning of Raiders who tries to steal the map and gets whipped.
Captain Katanga: The pirate captain who helps Jones and Marion transport the Ark until Belloq intercepts them.
The Monkey Man: The shady looking dude who owns a nazi monkey spy. Fun fact: He's played by the same actor who plays Barranca.
Captain Blumburtt: The British army captain who appears at the dinner scene in Pankot Palace, as well as the end when he arrives with the cavalry to drive off the Thuggee.
Art Weber: Dan Aykroyd's brief cameo character in Temple of Doom.
Village Elder: The leader of the village from which the Shankara Stone is stolen.
Like I said, super minor characters, I just wanted to round out my cast. If I made anybody else, it would be Boy Scout Indy and the Bandit that gives him his first fedora.
Anyways, let me know what you think, I have no idea what's in store next!