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Luke 2:12 And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
THE CHRISTMAS NUT! This is a true story that happened a few years ago in my church. Sunday school was just let out and the little ones came filtering back up from the basement to the main church auditorium in Indian River Baptist Church. A young mother was rejoined by her two youngest. They came up to her very excited because of the cute craft they had just made in their classes. The boy was 3 and the girl 5 years old. They showed Mom the cradle manger made from a cardboard tube which had been cut in half lengthwise, turned over and the two halves stapled together. A whole peanut in the shell had been wrapped in a scrap of swaddling from paper towel and a face drawn on it. This baby Jesus was then placed in the cradle manger with some straw made from recycled junk mail. The little boy had already eaten his peanut and loudly exclaimed, “Jesus is a nut!”
Out of the mouths of infants He has perfected praise! Yes, Jesus is a nut! Who else would be crazy enough to leave the glories of Heaven and be born as a human baby with only one goal in mind: to die for the sins of the world? Who else would love me so much to suffer such shame, mockery, pain, separation, denial and betrayal ? Who but our beloved Savior would be nutty enough to become sin for me that I might be made the righteousness of God in Him? Oh, yes, Jesus did the craziest thing for me, but the most wonderful and beautiful thing that anyone ever did! Praise God for His unspeakable gift!
When you get out those special holiday mixed nuts, think of Jesus and His absolutely crazy love for you! As you put them under the pressure of the nutcracker and they burst open, meditate upon the unthinkable pressure put upon Jesus upon the Cross and of His broken Heart, Body and crushed Spirit all for you!
If you haven’t yet come to understand His once for all completed sacrifice, if you never accepted this “Christmas Nut”, will you finally make the decision right now? Receive Him as your personal Savior with the heart of a child just like the little boy who gladly ate the peanut.
“Whosoever shall call upon the Name of the Lord shall be saved.” Romans 10:13
Please share this message and/or photo in your cards this year, print it, forward, use it to the glory of God!
Kathie Luther* Heart Windows Ministry*
All on its own, but captured amidst a grove of eucalyptus shrubs in bloom.
The nut is less than a centimetre in size.
MonkeyBoy came with friend, his name is BustaNut
Model:
Scheißerchen Klein my MonkeyBoy Custom by Art14Blythe
BustaNut, a Squirrel Companion
The topic for Macro Mondays is Negative Space, and as always, whenever an MM topic is announced, the first place I look for a subject appropriate to the theme is my ridiculously cluttered desk. And, sure enough, this nut, which, along with several others, has been residing on my desk for probably five years now, looked like it held some promise. When I picked several of these up off the ground, I thought they looked like chestnuts (see the whole nut in the first comment below), but there weren't any chestnut trees around that I could see, so I'm not sure what they are.
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Asima Rau strode towards the Park gates on her steed, Ikira on hers. Muzzles snorted and buckles rattled with leather. Warm breath expelled from nostrils.
Ikira Karu nods silently to Asima as she rides along on Barum and they draw up in near perfect parallel behind the two women.
Myca Ling mused a moment. "Maybe. I dunno. We'll cross that when it comes to it. I jus' roll with the punches an' see..." Hearing horse hooves behind her causes her to trail off and glance over her shoulder, with a nod to both managers, as she smiled. "Need us outta the way?"
Asima Rau turned to Ikira, static crackling from her helm. "We're going on patrol for a short while. Call us if you see anything, including the one, please?"
Myca Ling offered a sharp nod to Asima. "Of course." She took a step back and waved Guin through the gates if she wished to stay, and not be trampled by horses as a bonus.
Ikira Karu's hand rises to her helm and a text message scrolls across the internal HUD. She makes hmming sort of dissatisfied noise followed by the trademark burst of static.
Guinevere Fouroux is so focused on Caitlin she doesn't notice for a moment the approach of two horses behind Cait. She looks up with a sort of wonder--they seemed both perfect and totally out of place, in the middle of the city. She doesn't know the people riding, but at Caitlin's wave she follows quickly.
Asima Rau: Her stallion's hooves picked up, and from far above Guin's face she saw the black shapes striding closer. A nod to her and that mechanical voice greeting with a note of eerie calm, "Welcome to the Park."
Ikira Karu nods to both woman, a shade more deeply to Cait, and follows.
Guinevere Fouroux waches closely, returning their nods, and her eyes follow as they disappear down the street. She looks back to Cait, pointing after them. "Who was that?" she asks. "And who's, 'the one'?"
Myca Ling smiles and dips her head in a nod to the two managers before shifting her gaze, trying to shake the curiosity from her countenance. "Park managers. Don't often leave the park on patrol, but sometimes..." She took a quick pause. "A fella in town been attackin' rangers one by one for some reason. Don't know why, aside from him bein' nutter."
This type of screw nut is called "wing nut" for a good reason.
And when you consider that this is a detail of a wooden plane, you get a plane wing... nut. So, perfect match for this week's theme "wing", right?
Anyway, I'm late to the party, this time around, just a few hours shy of the end of the submission window, so it'll have to do. 😉
Seen at the Valhalla Organic Macadamia Farm in Guatemala. The owners of this farm have made it their mission to bring macadamia nut trees to Guatemala and Central America. They give out hundreds of saplings a year to communities across the region in areas suitable for their cultivation. Once established, a macadamia tree can produce nuts for up to 150 years providing a sustainable source for high-quality protein and omega-3 fatty acids. They provide several varieties of trees to avoid the problems with fungus like you find on the banana and coffee plantations that rely on one variety of plant.
There's this water pump I think it is at the park and it has lots of nuts and bolts... and painted red! Perfect for the group's theme: #Fastener .. So many to choose from. Some were rusty, some stained and others were covered with webs and dirt. I picked this because of the tool marks and peeling paint. The nut is about an inch in diameter. #MacroMondays
Macro & Close-up Photo Project
No. 008
Reverse Ring Macro with 50mm prime, aperture set at f/22. One table lamp was used for lighting.
Ref : DSC_1172
May 31, 2017.
After briefly sniffing here and there: success! There's the nut. It's quite hard to track them close in snow. The steps are very noisy...
Christmas Nutcracker from irrISIStible shop.
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The Bunya Pine is native to parts of Queensland but has been widely exported. The trees in Rookwood Cemetery were planted in the late 19th century. Some have grown to heights of upto 40 metres. This nut weighed 4.4 kg but others can go upto 10 kg. They are as hard as rocks. Being hit on the head by one of these dropping from above 15 metres could be fatal.
Keeping clear of these beautiful and impressive trees in season (summer every 3 or 4 years) would be advisable.
This is one of my favorite shots I took that day. The nut hatch flicks up and down the tree and it's often hard to get them in a good pose. This one stayed still for 10 seconds and I got multiple bursts with this one being the best lighting and clarity. No cropping and best viewed large.
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The distinctive black eye strip always reminds me of a masked bandit, a fitting description given its habit of flying off with food to cache elsewhere.
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The Nuthatch (Sitta europaea) is an instantly recognisable species that is unlikely to be mistaken for any other.
They can descend a tree trunk head first, the only British bird that can do so.
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