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This is the furthest we've walked this year, heading deeper into the forest, though we are still on a forestry road.
The pictured marsh ends where the water drains into a fairly small steep-sided valley, just to the right, off-camera. There, beavers decided, was the ideal spot to build a dam, which they did. It created a small lake, but then, driven by instinct, they built the dam higher, and to do that they had to build it wider. For the last twenty years there's been the biggest beaver dam I've seen. It's at least 50 meters wide and two meters high and it made this marsh into a lake. In turn that killed all those dead trees you see. The local land-owner is not happy with that and the dam has been blasted open at least a couple of times in these twenty years. But beavers always return and always repair the dam. In the end the collective persistence of the beavers will win, because they'll still be here when the forester is dead.
From my blip point of view this is one of the few places where you get a view over and of the forest. Mostly you (literally) can't see the forest for the trees.
My Dali Collection prints "Persistence of Time" Harmon embossed signature & 2 edges
New edition to my Salvador Dali collection.
This ones an "after" Dali lithograph.
I bought it because I wanted to get any of his prints that had this one graphic editors markings , especially the finger print shown.
It was one of three prints that came up on ebay a while ago (from the same seller) -
All of them had the finger print.
I actually was surprised to get this as cheap as I did as seller contacted me and sold it to me as a "second chance" offer.
I lost the auction but he sold it at my 2nd highest bid price.
The graphic editor ( Harmon) got Dali's finger print after Dali could no longer sign prints due to his illness , before death and used them to allegedly authenticate the lithographs.
Actually this shouldn't be considered an "original" Dali litho as I am sure he didn't do anything as far as the production of it ,
including allowing the size changes or additional images added to the original "Persistence of Memory"
“Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience.
Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence”
- Hal Borland
persistence:
–noun
1. the act or fact of persisting.
2. the quality of being persistent
3. continued existence or occurrence
4. the continuance of an effect after its cause is removed.
Persistence Market Research predicts that the global nitrile gloves market will exhibit an impressive CAGR of 24% during the forecast period (2020–2030), to be valued at US$ 26.7 Bn by 2030-end.
These are scans
of some older work
4x5 B&W
Called the series
The Kitchen Kollection
It was an exercise/experiment
Please let me know what
you think, especially the quality
or lack thereof of the scans
The ants are plastic
They came from American Science Surplus
The forks were bent up in an industrial strength dishwasher.
Beech leaves in February 2009
This year 2012, they are hanging on as usual but the buds will burst early, I think.
When hurdles get in the way, find a way to go around them.!This birch was determined to take its place in the world and the big rock couldn't stop it! It is a great conversation piece in the corner of my backyard garden.
The mark of the immature man is that he's willing to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he'll live humbly for one.
Pony!
Assateague Island National Seashore
Berlin, MD
October 8th, 2012
Canon 5D MkII
Did you know?
Assateague wild ponies have roamed the beaches, pine forest, and salt marsh of Assateague Island since the 1600's. Assateague Island National Seashore has a combined total of over 300 wild ponies in Maryland and Virginia. Some people believe the horses arrived on Assateague's shores when a Spanish galleon ship (with a cargo of horses) sank offshore. Others believe the horses arrived by early colonial settlers that allowed them to graze there. A Spanish ship wreck was discovered recently in the waters off Assateague which lends credit to the first theory.
© 2012 Kristina Truluck
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The Nikkorex Auto 35 was a consumer level leaf shutter SLR offered by Nikon in the early 60s. It was not particularly successful, though it did offer an innovative (for the time) automatic aperture feature.
In appearance it was very similar to the Pentina, but that’s about all they have in common. I enjoy restoring “parts” cameras, but some are more of a challenge than others. This one proved to be a real hair puller, and even by the time I got to 5 bodies I had managed no success, mostly due to the devilishly frustrating linkage between the body, mirror return, shutter, and meter/aperture interface. The 6th try resulted in a fully functional camera, but mainly because the repairs did not require removal of the lens body. Works great, and now I’m free to move on! (Except for this pesky urge to resurrect those piles of parts back into a couple of more!)
I took this photo as part of a lesson in Katrina Kennedy's Exposure class. In my very suburban area, we have a few random farms scattered here and there. I took a walk about half a mile from my house to a soybean field. At least, that's what it is this year. This persistent little corn stalk came back despite the crop rotation.
Persistence Tour, Paris, France
January 20th 2014
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Tree growing through the seem in the SE 37th Tunnel under Interstate 90 - Bellevue's Eastgate neighborhood.
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Patient persistence in prayer: A reflection by Fr. Tony Nye SJ, first published in the Farm Street Church newsletter, November 2010:
WHY KEEP PRAYING?
“This Sunday’s gospel (Luke 18:1-8) tells the story of a widow who kept on coming to an unjust judge. She persisted in her request even though that judge seemed unable and unwilling to listen. The parable is prefaced with the words, ‘Jesus told his disciples a parable about the need to pray continually and not give up.’ Not that God our Father is in any way like that unjust judge. It is the trust and persistence that Our Lord is teaching us. He ends with reassurance about His Father’s response to our needs in prayer: ’Now will not God see justice done to his chosen who cry to him day and night even when he delays to help them?’
But why the delay? Why is it that I pray for something that is so important to me or to those I love or to the world around me, but God does not seem to answer? He leaves me waiting. Why should I persist in prayer and not give up? What use is praying any more?
St. Augustine pondered over this puzzle that most of us have some time in our lives. It is an a letter he wrote to a lady called Proba all about prayer. His answer is worth thinking about. God keeps us waiting so that we are made ready to receive what He wants to give us by increasing our desire. ‘He wants our desire to be exercised in prayer’, says St. Augustine, ‘thus enabling us to grasp what he is prepared to give.’ Because we are ‘small and limited vessels for receiving it.’ This is true of the grace and bliss God has in store for us. Waiting, persisting in asking, desiring widens our hearts to receive. Pray without ceasing does not mean repeating words over and over, but keep desiring, pray in your heart. Then our soul is like a bag that is stretched so that it is large enough for the gifts God wishes to give.
Here is a thought from another master of prayer, Blessed John Henry Newman. Like St. Augustine he shows that persisting in prayer is not to inform God. He knows in His infinite wisdom what we need, what is best for us. No, it is to change us, so that our hearts and minds grow by prayer. Pope Benedict had a lot to say on prayer during his memorable visit. He quoted these words from Blessed John Henry Newman at the end of his homily in the Beatification Mass:
‘a habit of prayer, the practice of turning to God and the unseen world in every season, in every place, in every emergency – prayer, I say, has what may be called a natural effect in spiritualizing and elevating the soul. A man is no longer what he was before; ... he has imbibed a new set of ideas, and become imbued with fresh principles.’ (from Parochial and Plain Sermons)."
Fr Tony Nye, SJ
(Pilgrim at prayer in San Sebastián de Garabandal, overlooking the Peña Sagra mountains, Cantabria, Spain.
Persistence Market Research predicts that the global animal drug compounding market will exhibits an impressive 8% CAGR during the forecast period (2020-2030).