There are always advantages to creating and sharing images that are ‘up close & personal”.

Below we have a Bull Frog, one of my favorite subjects, and a Red-tail Hawk, a Rough-legged Hawk, a caterpillar and a bee.

Flight shots, especially of majestic birds such as our national symbol here in the U.S., the Bald Eagle, add to the story of the bird.

Flying is behavior, but so is a male Greater Prairie Chicken dancing for a lovely lady who is just out of the picture frame.

I guess, birds can’t read. At least the Belted Kingfisher we see below, whom I am quite sure is hunting for voles, mice, or some other little critters.

Western Jackrabbit in I think, Colorado.

Let us close today with what you have come to expect from me, sunrise and/or sunset.

Prairie sunrise in Wisconsin.

I made the sunset below, decades ago on a Pacific Ocean beach in Washington State. On film. Excuse me for being too lazy to look this up but the beach with rock forms you see, I believe was Rialto Beach, or some such thing.

I am sure that in the many years of writing this blog, at some point I have mentioned that I belong to a large (free) commercial website that is dedicated to still photography. It is called Flickr Photos. It is as I said free, and you can if you so choose, create your own group allowing people to join and share their imagery.

I have been there for many years although there was a point when I did not visit it for a year or so.

When I initially joined I immediately started my own group (of course). It was called North American Nature Photography. It grew nicely so I took one of the members and made him an administrator. It was no time at all until he began chewing people out and throwing them out of the group for not perfectly adhering to my rules.

I gave him the group and began a new one.

I never liked the idea, even though it was mine, to limit those who placed images in the group to North America only. We were missing African wildlife, arctic landscapes, Asian insects and more.

That group, called Earth Images Nature Photography (of course) still exists. I administer the group, myself.

https://www.flickr.com/

I still on rare occasions submit images to that group, and a couple of times a week, I go there and comment on some of the photos that have been published from memebers.

By Flickr standards, it remains small. Still, with no effort from me, there are 2,014
Members, and 156,283 images residing there at last count.

There are many ways to show who we are, and to leave a bit of something that we are made of, behind.

Ultimately, this blog will serve an even better way to put a stamp if you will, on .who I am or eventually, who I became.

With the internet, there of course are vehicles to get out what we want to say, and to share samples of who we have been, are, and will possibly be. There is no better way to share that, than with our own personal vehicle such as this blog.

On to more important things.

Corinthians 1;17
For Christ sent me not to baptize, not with wisdom of words, less the Cross of Christ would be made of no effect.

The above verse tells us that the Cross of Christ, and what He did there for us, should always be the center of the message, and that message is in fact, the Cross and what Christ did there for us. Faith and acceptance of the Salvation He offers us, is the only answer to Heaven over Hell.

We cannot earn it, we are far too sinful for that. That is why we are offered Jesus and Him Crucifed, as the answer. We can be washed clean, with the Blood of Christ. All honest Bibles tell you just that. Do not take my word, read it for yourself. Don’t let others, be they individual people such as me, or whole churches or full denominations, lead you wrongly. They are making themselves or their religion your savior.

There is only one Savior, and He was God as a man.

A word or two about baptism.

Baptism is not salvation.That’s why Christ came here, and sacrificed for us. It is however, a Biblical, Chrisitan truth that Chrisitans should want to do. It is symbolic.

If you are a healthy adult, full immersion would be prefered.

I have been Baptised.

If your two day old, or two month old, or two year old child should die, and they had not been Baptized, they will not go to hell, although those who teach that might.

The new Testament was given, so we will understand Christ, Salvation, and what it means.

I love my Jewish brothers and sisters and pray the majority will accept Jesus and go the Heaven. Many come to Chrisit every day. The numbers have been growing for decades. They remain ethnic Jews, but are Christian believers.

The old Testament is as important as the New. We Chrisitians however, are not Old Testament Jews following that law. We are Born Again, new people, who understand the Gospel and the path to Heaven is faith in what Jesus did, how His Blood can clean us.

You can spend your Saturdays resting and praying if you choose, it is however, not a Christian activity, it is that of a pre-Christ and Salvation, Jewish mandate.

You can eat what you choose, but doing so in a more healthy fashion than me, would be suggested.

Being a Christian is among other things, about knowing the truth and putting it into practice.

May God Bless,
Wayne