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Since July 7th, at least 10 American law enforcement officers have been killed by gunfire in the line of duty, with many other being wounded.
My father is a police Sergeant, so I can attest to the extreme difficulties police face everyday. While not all police are honorable (as it is in all professions), the majority are just as much heroes as out military veterans. They are often treated like dirt by people they deal with everyday, encounter very traumatic situations on a regular basis, and face the reality that the next traffic stop could end their life. A significant percentage of officers struggle with PTSD, but usually don't ever receive any form of treatment. Their job is tough enough without having to worry about being gunned down simply for wearing the badge. I ask you to support American police officers in this time, and pray that peace would come to our country.
The top black line represents the public, the blue line represents law enforcement, and the bottom black line represents criminals. The Blue Line is all that stands between the two.
I know the horizon is a bit wonky but this is how I shot it...found a piece of thin ice in our bird bath and loved the texture of it.
For anyone wondering what this is exactly, I'll try to explain.
While at Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park this evening I noticed there had formed a shelf of frozen pebbles caused no doubt by the frigid temperatures coupled with waves from the lake undercutting the shore. From below this undercut hung hundreds of small icicles. As it was a sunny day today, the stones were heating up ever so slightly, and in this case, the stone had fallen out of the ice and icicle surrounding it.
L = large
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Out and about on Sunday I managed to capture this lovely image with my iPhone. its a little private loch hidden in the woods its absolutely awesome. I am not sure if that was Cranes on the ice.
This particular late April day was overcast. But, like they say, "it ain't over till it's over" and while paddling back home (in time to aviod the showers to the north), the sun poked through the clouds lighting up the shore. It made for a nice blue hour image. See the comment for the hole in the clouds...
The rocks at Sandy Mouth are from the Bude Formation and of Silesian (Upper Carboniferous) age, approximately 310 million years old. Rocks from the Westphalian Stage (Langsettian to Bolsovian Sustages) being from the middle of the Silesian.
The formation is mostly sandstones, but grey-brown mudstones and siltstones can be seen in beds at the top of the cliff and in thinner layers that dip down to beach level.
10 am at Little Indian Slough.
This continued as the slough made its way into Puget Sound.
Unusual for our mild climate.
Another portrait of my project "The Forgotten" that reveals the hardness of homeless life and its immense loneliness
Toms Hill and Northchurch Common, Ashridge Estate, Hertfordshire, England
Christmas Day walk.
The trees thin out close to the edge of Northchurch Common
I think this building on the University of Houston campus might have housed equipment that needed to be vented. As a consequence, these steel slats are supposed to be functional, but they were also very intriguing in the abstract. A little color overlay and voila!
They say most of the things remaining after a storm are thin or tiny, or both. A giant old oak tree might be torn down, yet a tiny flower with a thin stem might stand tall. A few petals might have gone with the blow, but it stays alive.
Jacob would have wrestled with the angel in a thin place. Gethsemane, the desert, Galilee and the Psalmists’ hills were all thin places. And I’m sure John was in a very thin place when he wrote his Apocalyptic book—the one no one has ever interpreted accurately.
The Celts talk about thin places—places, I’d say, of the breakthrough of the divine into our realm. We might like to think of the breakthrough as the other way round; but I think, when and if we’re open to this type of encounter, it’s more likely that we’re finding places that already exist. Geographically, thin places are ancient and holy. The Celts have, amongst numerous others, Nevern in Wales, Lindisfarne in England, Inis Mor in Ireland and, of course, Iona in Scotland. Aboriginal peoples seem to have their thin places, as do the Buddhists and even modern day pilgrims on the old Santiago trail or the ancient pilgrims following the Francigena trail from Canterbury to Rome. Whether seen as spiritual or not, there must be thousands upon thousands of thin places all over this planet. For me, Rome is about as thin as it gets as I drift through its time dimensions and move back and forth between Roman and early Christian times. Perhaps thin places are related to, or spin off from, ley lines. You know… hot spots or energy conduits pulling us to them, pulling earth to heaven or heaven to earth… or each to the other.
Actually, the whole world was a thin place in the beginning when creation began to groan in her earth pangs.
[from After The Interlude by Andrew Ruhl and Ellyn Peirson]
the Palace at Mafra, Portugal
See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafra_National_Palace
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