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1 Peter 5:7–8 (ESV)
7 casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. 8 Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
DEVIL (Gk. diábolos “slanderer”). Another name for Satan, God’s adversary. Whereas the Old Testament contains references to “demons” (so RSV, NIV; KJV “devils”) and “satyrs,” the New Testament presents a more developed demonology. Here some of the angels are said to have fallen from their state of integrity in heaven and placed themselves under the rule of the devil. As their prince (Matt. 9:34), the devil—called the “father of lies” and the “murderer from the beginning” (John 8:44)—opposed Christ’s redemptive work by sending demons into people who then involuntarily became demon-possessed (see DEMON).
The devil himself sought to annul Christ’s ministry by his temptations in the wilderness, the region where, according to the Old Testament, demons and satyrs existed. Temporarily abandoning the effort after three unsuccessful attempts (Matt. 4:1–11 par. Luke 4:2–13; Mark 1:13 has “Satan”), the devil waited for an opportune moment (Luke 4:13), which came during the passion week when he had Judas Iscariot, one of Jesus’ disciples, betray his master (Luke 22:3, “Satan”; John 6:70; 13:2). (Though Luke suggests Jesus’ victory over the devil, he also records Christ’s awareness of his power [e.g., Luke 8:12; see also Matt. 13:39], especially through his endeavors to block the expansion of the kingdom of God by means of demon possession.) At Acts 13:10 the apostle Paul blinds Elymas on account of his alleged cooperation with the devil.
Through his resurrection Christ broke the power of death and, in principle, the power of the devil (Heb. 2:14; cf. Acts 10:38; 1 John 3:8). God’s adversary may still prowl “like a roaring lion” (1 Pet. 5:8), but his reign will end at the great battle of the final tribulation (Rev. 20:10) or at the Day of Judgment (Matt. 25:41). Meanwhile, believers are warned not to play into the hands of the devil (Eph. 4:2) but to resist his wiles (6:11; cf. 1 Pet. 5:9), and office bearers are exhorted to display kindness to unbelievers in the hope that they may escape from the devil’s tentacles (2 Tim. 2:25–26).
Allen C. Myers, The Eerdmans Bible Dictionary (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1987), 281–282.
View of the world famous Devil’s Bridge at Pontarfynach (Devils’ Bridge) A series of three bridges built on top of each other over the years, with the lowest dating back to medieval times and the 1901 iron bridge on the top.
Devils Bridge is the largest natural sandstone arch located in the Sedona area of the Coconino National Forest in Arizona. Sedona is an Arizona desert town near Flagstaff that’s surrounded by red-rock buttes, steep canyon walls and pine forests. It’s noted for its mild climate and vibrant arts community.
EJ&E's Devil Child heads up an empty state line coal train through Griffith, IND.
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This is Yohko from the anime Devil Hunter Yohko. :) She was a gift to a friend for a Secret Santa event. She was kinda late though... XD;
On a ridge, visible from the boardwalk leading to Lake Osborne, piles of these boulders are assembled, demonstrating how glaciers carved out this alpine region and dumped these massive rocks onto the plateau.
For years, I've wanted to visit Devil's Lake State Park. I've seen countless photos of it and always thought it would be a great place to check out. Last month, I went camping there for a few nights. It was as fun as I was expecting. I hiked up the east bluff three or four times, and the west bluff once. The views are phenomenal. This is a place that doesn't resemble anywhere else in Wisconsin. Unfortunately, the majority of my time there was cloudy and rainy, so I didn't get as good of photos as I had hoped.
The park has a few negatives, but only minor. The best trails in the park are paved, unfortunately. I'm not sure why they would ever pave hiking trails, but it was a mistake. On the bright side, ticks were never really a concern. Biking wasn't the greatest with the hilly terrain, but that's something that should be expected in that part of the state. Even so, the positives easily outweigh the negatives, and I hope to visit again some day.
Devil’s matchstick
(Cladonia floerkeana)
Also known as 'British soldier'.
A quirky lichen with red-capped branches (known as 'podetia'), this lichen usually grows between one and three centimetres in height.
Like all lichens, the Devil's matchstick is actually two organisms working together: a fungus and an algae in a symbiotic relationship.
Where to see it
Cladonia floerkeana has a fondness for dead wood so rotting logs and fence posts are a good place to start. It also grows on well drained soil with a high organic matter content such as that found on heath and moorland.
Distribution
This lichen is scattered throughout the UK, although more commonly found in the north and the west.
Did you know?
Lichens are very sensitive to air pollution: the more lichens you find in a place the cleaner the air!
www.plantlife.org.uk/wild_plants/plant_species/devils_mat...
Devils Garden, ein kleines Tal mit Sandsteinfiguren, nahe Escalante, Utah, an der Hole In The Rock Road gelegen.
Devils Tower National Monument
Wyoming
According to the Native American tribes of the Kiowa and Lakota, a group of girls went out to play and were spotted by several giant bears, who began to chase them. In an effort to escape the bears, the girls climbed atop a rock, fell to their knees, and prayed to the Great Spirit to save them. Hearing their prayers, the Great Spirit made the rock rise from the ground towards the heavens so that the bears could not reach the girls. The bears, in an effort to climb the rock, left deep claw marks in the sides, which had become too steep to climb. Those are the marks which appear today on the sides of Devils Tower. When the girls reached the sky, they were turned into the stars of the Pleiades.
Colorado Model Sara Lynn
Colorado Model Devil Ducky :)
We shot this at The Milkhaus which some of you might recognize from the most recent Alix shoot. Ode to Joy (Series)
Thanks for the questions everyone.
I have been trying to answer some of the questions that I have been getting in my flickr mail. So, the link below addresses a cool little tool I found called Skitch. I use it to capture and research images and ideas that I want to share with the crew and model in the days building up to a shoot. The process is also a great method of learning about your own likes and dislikes by reverse engineering and image and making little notes. Again,I have found that the "Informal work-flow" is the only way I will get it done. So if you can bare with some ramblings background noise... here it is.
Devil May Cry 3 - Devils Never Cry
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xti_6Bzpa8A
Location:Barcelona
Note: Night photo from a mannequin in a freak comics shop showcase.
Illumination source only orange streetlight.
Nikon 200mm f/4 NIKKOR-Q AUTO (Pre-AI)
- www.kevin-palmer.com - Between the Black Hills and Devils Tower is found a mountain range that few visit. The Bear Lodge Mountains aren’t particularly tall or noteworthy. But with a large diversity of trees they are beautiful in the fall. In some ways the roads and trails here are frustrating because it always feels like an amazing view is right around the corner, but there are usually a few too many pine trees in the way. You just have to work a little harder to find the best vistas. After studying a satellite map, I zeroed in on this large stand of aspens. The largest aspen grove in the world is 108 acres, and this one is a respectable 72 acres. After a few wrong turns using inaccurate maps I finally reached the aspens. But up close I couldn’t get the pictures I wanted because only the trees at the edge were visible. I needed to be far away to see the entirety. On a neighboring 6,400’ peak I finally found the view I was looking for. Lined up perfectly in a valley 14 miles west and 2,500 feet lower stood Devils Tower, with the Missouri Buttes behind it.
While It's great that Kirby's projects are now finally being collected into nice hardcover collections, the coloring in these books is just terrible. What a missed opportunity.
Just because the original comics were colored horribly doesn't mean reprints of old comics have to be ugly too. I would love to see Kirby colored by a smart modern colorist like Dave Stewart, Hollingsworth or Loughridge. There is so much good drawing that is demolished by crappy coloring that is trying to poorly emulate the shitty coloring of the past. Trying to color an old comic reprint in it's original style is like purposefully scratching up the film of Casablanca before putting onto DVD because it's an old film.
Color plays a huge part in how a cartoonists work comes across to an audience. Good artwork's effectiveness can be ruined by a bad color job. Much of the work by older artists is dismissed as childish looking by modern audiences and I feel a big part of it lies in the misguided and thoughtless color jobs that are applied to what is actually very powerful and thoughtful line art.
Enough ranting... for now.
Devils Tower is an igneous intrusion or laccolith in the Bear Lodge Mountains (part of the Black Hills) near Hulett and Sundance in Crook County, north-eastern Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River. It rises dramatically 386m above the surrounding terrain and the summit is 1,559m above sea level.
Devils Tower was the first declared US National Monument, established on 24 September 1906, by President Theodore Roosevelt.
Tribes including the Arapaho, Crow, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Lakota, and Shoshone had cultural and geographical ties to the monolith before non-Indians reached Wyoming. Their names for the monolith include: Aloft on a Rock (Kiowa), Bear's House (Cheyenne, Crow), Bear's Lair (Cheyenne, Crow), Daxpitcheeaasáao, "Home of bears" (Crow), Bear's Lodge (Cheyenne, Lakota), Bear's Lodge Butte (Lakota), Bear's Tipi (Arapaho, Cheyenne), Tree Rock (Kiowa), and Grizzly Bear Lodge (Lakota).
The name Devil's Tower originated in 1875 during an expedition led by Colonel Richard Irving Dodge when his interpreter misinterpreted the name to mean Bad God's Tower, which then became Devil's Tower. All information signs in that area use the name "Devils Tower", following a geographic naming standard whereby the apostrophe is eliminated.
The landscape surrounding Devils Tower is composed mostly of sedimentary rocks. The oldest rocks visible in Devils Tower National Monument were laid down in a shallow sea during the Triassic period, 225 to 195 million years ago. This dark red sandstone and maroon siltstone, interbedded with shale, can be seen along the Belle Fourche River. Oxidation of iron minerals causes the redness of the rocks. This rock layer is known as the Spearfish Formation.
Above the Spearfish formation is a thin band of white gypsum, called the Gypsum Springs Formation. This layer was deposited during the Jurassic period, 195 to 136 million years ago.
Created as sea levels and climates repeatedly changed, gray-green shales (deposited in low-oxygen environments such as marshes) were interbedded with fine-grained sandstones, limestones, and sometimes thin beds of red mudstone. This composition, called the Stockade Beaver member, is part of the Sundance Formation. The Hulett Sandstone member, also part of the Sundance formation, is composed of yellow fine-grained sandstone. Resistant to weathering, it forms the nearly vertical cliffs which encircle the Tower itself.
During the Paleogene Period, around 50 to 60 million years ago, the Rocky Mountains and the Black Hills were uplifted. Magma rose through the crust, intruding into the existing sedimentary rock layers.
Modern geologists agree that it was formed by the intrusion of igneous material, but not on exactly how that process took place. Several believe the molten rock comprising the Tower might not have surfaced; others are convinced the tower is all that remains of what once was a large explosive volcano.
In 1907, scientists Darton and O'Harra decided that Devils Tower must be an eroded remnant of a laccolith. A laccolith is a large mass of igneous rock which is intruded through sedimentary rock beds without reaching the surface, but makes a rounded bulge in the sedimentary layers above. This theory was quite popular in the early 20th century since numerous studies had earlier been done on laccoliths in the Southwest.
Other theories have suggested that Devils Tower is a volcanic plug or that it is the neck of an extinct volcano. Presumably, if Devils Tower was a volcanic plug, any volcanics created by it - volcanic ash, lava flows, volcanic debris - would have been eroded away long ago. Some pyroclastic material of the same age as Devils Tower has been identified elsewhere in Wyoming.
The igneous material that forms the Tower is a phonolite porphyry intruded about 40.5 million years ago, a light to dark-grey or greenish-gray igneous rock with conspicuous crystals of white feldspar. As the magma cooled, hexagonal (and sometimes 4-, 5-, and 7-sided) columns formed. As the rock continued to cool, the vertical columns shrank horizontally in volume and cracks began to occur at 120˚ angles, generally forming compact 6-sided columns. The nearby Missouri Buttes, 5.6 km to the north-west of Devils Tower, are also composed of columnar phonolite of the same age. Superficially similar, but with typically 0.61m diameter columns, Devils Postpile National Monument and Giant's Causeway are columnar basalt.
Devils Tower did not visibly protrude out of the landscape until the overlying sedimentary rocks eroded away. As the elements wore down the softer sandstones and shales, the more resistant igneous rock making up the tower survived the erosional forces. As a result, the grey columns of Devils Tower began to appear as an isolated mass above the landscape.
As rain and snow continue to erode the sedimentary rocks surrounding the Tower's base, more of Devils Tower will be exposed. Nonetheless, the exposed portions of the Tower still experience certain amounts of erosion. Cracks along the columns are subject to water and ice erosion. Portions, or even entire columns, of rock at Devils Tower are continually breaking off and falling. Piles of scree lie at the base of the tower, indicating that it was once wider than it is today.
Steven Spielberg's 1977 movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind used the formation as a plot element and as the location of its climactic scenes, causing a large increase in visitors to the monument.
In recent years, about 1% of the Monument's 400,000 annual visitors climbed Devils Tower, mostly using traditional climbing techniques.
Scanned from a negative.
Devils Falls is a twin waterfall on Yankee Jim's Rd between Foresthill and Colfax which runs over the American River.
In spite of being very busy with framing my upcoming show, I managed to process this guy from Devil's Churn.
Cape Perpetua really made an impression on me, when I visited it for the first time about a month ago. I feel like that in the few hours I was there I just scratched the surface of this fantastic section of coast.
Digital infrared with IR bandpass filter removed from camera through Cokin 007 filter, processed in Silver Effects Pro 2.
Created a look that personifies a deviled egg. :)
Check out the Deviled Egg fair: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Mystical%20Beach/32/78/2972
April 12, 2020
Or mermaid's purse.
(A Skate egg case)
Spruce Hill Beach
Brewster, Massachusetts
Cape Cod - USA
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Devils Tower National Monument
Wyoming
According to the Native American tribes of the Kiowa and Lakota, a group of girls went out to play and were spotted by several giant bears, who began to chase them. In an effort to escape the bears, the girls climbed atop a rock, fell to their knees, and prayed to the Great Spirit to save them. Hearing their prayers, the Great Spirit made the rock rise from the ground towards the heavens so that the bears could not reach the girls. The bears, in an effort to climb the rock, left deep claw marks in the sides, which had become too steep to climb. Those are the marks which appear today on the sides of Devils Tower. When the girls reached the sky, they were turned into the stars of the Pleiades.