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And with a turn of the head we have this view in color. I am surprised how still it remained as I leaned inward to take this photo.
Just a palm tree and a sunset taken while on holiday hopefully more abstract in this orientation. I know I could turn it in Windows but I think I will leave it. About to travel again and not sure of internet where we are going.
Thanks very much to all who viewed or commented yesterday and dragged my stream view count over 11 million at last!
Edit: Now rotated correctly
I have always thought that these were Sand Bubbler Crabs, but Google Lens is now telling me that they are Horned Ghost Crabs. Either way they are great fun to photograph and while away an afternoon on the beach.
A red-whiskered bulbul (pycnonotus jocosus) glancing sideways from a lofty perch in a pine tree. Photographed in Trou D'Eau Douce, Mauritius.
Are dogmas unnecessary?
The adequacy of dogmas depends on whether they claim to formulate or to allude; in the first case they flaunt and fail, in the second they indicate and illumine. To be adequate they must retain a telescopic relation to the theme in which they refer, must point to the mysteries of God rather than picture them. All they can do is indicate a way, not mark and end, of thinking. Unless they serve as humble signposts on the way dogmas are obstacles...
...Unless we realize that dogmas are tentative rather then final, that they are accommodations rather than definitions, intimations rather than descriptions; unless we learn how to share the moment and the insight to which they are trying to testify, we stand guilty of literalmindedness, of pretending to know what cannot be put into words; we are guilty of intellectual idolatry. The indispensable function of the dogmas is to make it possible to rise above them.
-Abraham Joshua Heschel, as quoted from pg. 49 of The Genesis of Faith-The Depth Theology of Abraham Joshua Heschel, by John C. Merkle
Greek gods have a human shape, so, when you meet their effigies, you can photograph them frontally, in profile and even from behind. Immortal they may be, but their life can still be poor and painful. They may even be forgotten. And this Nautilus shell, broken as it is, may actually last longer than this image of Hermes. It may even outlast human memory. Some time in the future when there is nobody left to remember the gods. Fuji X-E2 plus Helios 44M-7 at approx. F8; contre-jour and with reflector.
this week's MM theme:
sideways, upside down & backwards
this was taken a year ago at a luncheon celebration
I liked the way the 2 glasses lined up in the original view below
#2020photomarathoncoronadays
Shot/used for a Facebook challenge with the theme "Sideways".
Trees shaped by the dominant western wind - Vejrumstad, Denmark - March 31, 2020.
Stunted hawthorn tree growing sideways due to severe wind pruning on the slopes of Belstone Tor on Dartmoor.
an astral projection of stuff we love but can't taste or touch this summer. here's a house down the road, across from a market i go to. it reminds me of the vineyard. but i can't smell salt.
I get dizzy just looking at this guy lean on one leg. Beautiful Great Blue Heron complete with reflection. This guy put on quite a show.
Another pose from one of my little Blue Tit visitors. Certainly more challenging to get than the Robins as they do not stay still, flitting and darting about until they get at the bird feeder.
Baumkronenpfad, Beelitz-Heilstätten
Seitwärtiger Blick auf den Baumkronenpfad mit dem Abstieg vor dem "Alpenhaus". Einen Fahrstuhl gibt es nur am Hauptaufgang mit der Aussichtsplattform, zusätzlich kann man an zwei Stellen den Baumkronenpfad über Treppen verlassen.
Side view of the treetop path with the descent in front of the "Alpenhaus". There is only an elevator at the main staircase with the viewing platform, but you can also leave the treetop path via stairs at two points.
Santana: Sideways
Here methods, techniques, ideas, and spiritualities of themselves are of little use. We must not stand in the burning house with a dictionary thinking we are safe because we are frantically looking up the definition for a fire extinguisher! Merton once told me that so few of us are willing to become people of prayer because so few of us are willing to go beyond definitions and concepts to grasp life itself.
-Finley, Merton’s Palace of Nowhere, 89.
This little sparrow was giving me a sideways glance. I think they are getting more comfortable with my presence so I am able to get these close ups. Being so close reveals details that you wouldn’t see normally. Like the texture of the feathers especially around the breast area and underbelly are surprising to me - fluffy and often ruffled.
Dante’s vision of the soul, then, is delightfully free of any oppressive, puritanical vision of its latent evil. Rather, the soul is pulled toward goods, like a little girl of seven who is delighted by wildflowers along the way and digresses to skip out toward them. But the appetite, if not managed by reason, will keep skipping along after this and then that and eventually lose itself, having strayed from the path. Sin, then, is getting distracted by a minor good, exalting it, and looking to it for something that it is too shallow to possess fully.
-Jason M. Baxter, A Beginner’s Guide to Dante’s Divine Comedy
“I am the utter poverty of God. I am His emptiness, littleness, nothingness, lostness. When this is understood, my life in His freedom, the self-emptying of God in me is the fullness of grace. A love for God that knows no reason because He is the fullness of grace. A love for God that knows no reason because He is God, a love without measure, a love for God as personal. Love for all, hatred for none, is the fruit and manifestation of love for God—peace and satisfaction. Forgetfulness of worldly pleasure, selfishness in the love for God, channeling all passion and emotion into the love for God”
- Thomas Merton (written on his flight from San Francisco to The Monastery of Christ in the Desert, Albiquiu New Mexico)