I Must go down to the sea…

But first the bluffs…IMG_20141109_145053559_HDR

where a last flower blooms before frost comes…

IMG_20141109_152346171_HDR and berries are ramping up for Christmas…

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Then on down the trail,  to the ocean…

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…where we sit a while, my mate and I,

IMG_20141109_160935046IMG_20141109_161006581_HDRWe haven’t been in a while, but what better place to sit a bit on a Sunday’s afternoon,

as the sun falls from the sky to the sound of wind-whipped surf..

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God’s works are awesome.

–LS

O LORD, how manifold are your works! In wisdom have you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures. 25 Here is the sea, great and wide, which teems with creatures innumerable, living things both small and great. Ps.104:24,25

Bless the LORD, all his works in all places of his dominion: bless the LORD, O my soul. Ps.103:22

A Sunny Afternoon’s Adventure

A trail to hike

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A quiet lake…

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lost in its own reflections.P1130588

A walk around

 

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A sit above

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Upside-down trees below.

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A waiting canoe…

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A skim-coat of ice beckoning…

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A feathery ice-scape…

 

 

 

 

 

 

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And our man-powered icebreaker …

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All made for a great sunny afternoon adventure, together.

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–LS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Winter’s Day Walk…

Broom and bramble compete to obscure the way, but twin firs mark it still…P1130560

The Lake gleams far below where sun has shot through clouds’ billowing defenses…

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Young trees rise to conquer the once-cleared slope…

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Boats and their houses lie safely snugged in quiet harbor lolling below…

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While a gut-wrenchingly forlorn bray rends the air as if speaking for the whole of creation: “How long, Lord, how long?”

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“For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now…Even so, come Lord Jesus.” (Rom.8:22; Rev.22:20)

–LS

“At twenty, you want to save the world. At forty, you want to be saved from it.”—Robert Bruce