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1. january: baby elephant.
2. february: buddha.
3. march: cumberland terrace.
4. april: morning dew & spiderweb.
5. may: allium.
6. june: emerald lake & wapta mountain i.
7. july: expanse.
8. august: summer into autumn | orange iv.
9. september: forest path.
10. october: shadow on the wall.
11. november: maple leaves i.
12. december: demolition.
spring bloomers
pray until something happensLuke 18:1 Then Jesus told to His disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up.
Jesus was concerned that His followers pray continually in order to accomplish God’s will for their lives. From this parable of the persistent widow we learn several things:
1. We must persevere in prayer with regard to all matters until Jesus returns.
2.In this life we have an adversary, satan. Prayer can protect us from the evil one.
3.In our prayers, we should cry out against sin and for justice.
4.Persistent prayer is counted as faith
5.In the final days before Christ’s return, there will be increased diabolic opposition to the prayers of the faithful. Because satan and the pleasures of the world, many will cease having a persistent prayer life.
Luke 18:7 And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to Him day and night? Will He keep putting them off?
~God’s true chosen ones will never cease crying out to God for Christ’s return to destroy satan’s power and the present evil world system. They will persevere in prayer to ”see that they get justice, and quickly”, and for Christ to reign in righteousness, knowing that Christ’s coming is the only real hope for this world.
Now Available - Character Counts! Note Cards
A set includes one of each of the Character Counts poster contest winners from the fall of 2009. These colorful cards illustrate the pillars of character and make a great gift. One set of ten cards sells for $10.00. Please contact Sara Filipiak (tsfilipiak@yahoo.com) to place an order. What a wonderful way to show that Character Counts! in Glenview.
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Photographer: Ricky Thigpen
Diane Keller had an idea for adventure.
With a passion for the Northwest’s diverse butterfly species, Diane – a former BLM employee – shared her idea with the Eugene-Springfield Chapter of the North American Butterfly Association (NABA).
They would head out to the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument with their guide books, nets, and cameras to count some of the most beautiful butterflies Oregon has to offer.
Incorporating the magic of nature with the science of fieldwork...
READ THE FULL STORY HERE!
Photo of a Police Car Moth (Latin name Gnophaela vermiculata) nectaring on its host plant, a spreading dogbane - courtesy of Rick Ahrens
This is a very small part of the glass memorial wall located outside the American Air Museum at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford. There is an aircraft etched in the wall for each one lost.
The following is a transcript of the plaque next to the wall:-
counting the cost
dedicated to all the airmen who flew in the Second World War
US aircraft lost flying from UK bases
USAAF
8th AF
6346
9th AF
692
US NAVY
24
#28 of 117 pictures in 2017 - Monument
Counting wood in Ft Lauderdale in spring 1986. Stayed at Marriott Marina, wood was in Port Everglades
Arrange them by size, count their flowers, do simple math, learn the flower names, practice colours, play, play, play!
Standing 3-5" tall, set of 6.
Completely needlefelted.
The amazing, brilliant, and awesome gift I got from my brother Scott, who hand-made all his presents this year.
He calls this "Count Duke" --
A reference to the infamous Doonesbury character and to the evil Sith Lord Dooku, the pamphlet Scott wrote reads:
"Count Duke: Appointed by Darth Vader to maintain order after the Ewoks blew up a vital shield generator on the resort planet Endor after overseeing a series of highly successful pogroms. The remaining population of pacified Ewoks are now the faithful servants of the Empire, and Endor remains a popular vacation spot for Imperial officers and Sith alike"
WXPN's XPoNential Music Festival 2012. Counting Crows, Delta Spirit, Field Report, We are Augustines, Kasey Anderson, Rhett Miller and the Serial Lady Killers, JD Souther, John Wesley Harding's Cabinet of Wonders, Kaki King, Diego Garcia, JD McPherson, Work Drugs, Dana Alexandra. 22 July 2012.
ⓒ Choong Too Feon
Every Bird Counts: An Honest Field Guide started as a simple experiment. Ten people — artists, parents, and complete beginners — drew the same photo of an Asian Openbill, a migratory waterbird along the East Asian-Australasian Flyway. No rules. No instructions. Then, three birders attempted to identify each drawing cold.
The results were imperfect, surprising, and occasionally infiltrated by a goose. But most were recognised. Because citizen science doesn't require expertise, just attention. Every observation counts. Even the honest ones.
The best part: one participant went home, looked up the Asian Openbill, and shared what they learned with the group. Mission accomplished. 🌟
Former NM Voices executive director Veronica C. Garcia--who is now superintendent of Santa Fe Public Schools--talks about her initiative to more closely tie together the organization's state tax and budget work with its KIDS COUNT child well-being work.
I'll bet you thought we'd forget about this place. This is the world-famous Alamo, the 18th century Spanish mission where in 1836 Davy Crocket, Jim Bowie, William Travis, and about 250 other Texans fighting for Texan independence were wiped out by a Mexican army of 1,800 men commanded by General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
Here's the story. In the 1830s, Texas was Mexico territory. But it was also open, unsettled country (assuming you don't count the Comanche), and more and more American adventurers and pioneers streamed into the Texas hills. The Mexicans didn't mind this all that much at first, and even though the American-Texans never made much of an attempt to adapt culturally, they seemed for a while content to be a part of Mexico.
All that changed with the rise of General Antonio López de Santa Anna to become the 8th President of Mexico in 1833. Santa Anna was a lot less interested in the federalist model of government Mexico had enjoyed up to that point and decided he preferred a more dictatorial style. This went okay in much of Mexico, but the American-Texans were more familiar with a federalist model (by the American definition) that focused heavily on the rights of the individual states. In 1835, they decided they weren't having any of Santa Anna's crap and rebelled. Over the course of a few months, the Texans defeated the Mexican army troops already stationed in Mexico in a number of skirmishes.
But Santa Anna had no intention of rolling over and letting Texas be Texas, so he conscripted 1,800 men into an army and personally led them in a march to the Texas frontier. At the same time, he sent a strongly-worded letter to President of the United States Andrew Jackson in which he declared any foreign fighters found in Texas pirates. By Mexican law, this meant Santa Anna would take no prisoners of war. Any American found on Texas land would be executed.
The Texans--who probably didn't know they'd been marked for death--responded to the approach of Santa Anna's army by establishing a garrison in the Alamo Mission. At the time, the mission was more than just this one building. This was just the central structure of a large, walled compound with several structures that the Mexican army had already converted to a fort. Holing up in the mission/fort turned out to be a bad idea, though, and on February 23, 1836, Santa Anna's army surrounded the Texans. The siege lasted 12 days, during which the Mexicans tried twice to scale the compound's walls. The Texans repelled the Mexicans both times. But then on March 6, the Mexicans made a third attempt, and everything went to hell. The Mexicans made it over the walls and started killing every American they could find on sight. Legend has it that some Americans tried to surrender and were immediately executed. The heroes of the Alamo, they say--people like former Congressman and eventual TV show icon Davy Crockett--went down fighting. Not a Texan walked out of this place alive.
But this victory turned out to be fleeting for Santa Anna, and the Alamo became a rallying cry. News of the slaughter drove Texans mad with rage, and they came back and hit Santa Anna hard. A month or so later on April 21, 1836, the Texans defeated Santa Anna's army at the Battle of San Jacinto, finalizing the push for Texas independence. The future state would spend the next decade as the independent Republic of Texas, until the Mexican War encouraged them to join the United States.
This makes Texas one of only a few US states with the distinction of having once been its own country. The Texans tend to be big-headed about this.