"Left and right,
Avoid all
Cuts and parries.
Seize your opponents' minds
And scatter them all!"
from Art of Peace
Read on and fall sound asleep
Today while I was preparing for my mid day nap I heard a suspicious sound. Younger grandson confirmed that the sound was thunder. Before I could get committed to my noon nap it began to rain. RAIN! BLESSED GENTLE RAIN. The first picture is an art shot showing the ripples made in the rain puddle on our back step. I took the thing to show the orange kitty food bowl overflowing from the rain fall. The shape of the bowl is such that a half inch rainfall will completely fill it. Then I discovered, while preparing the picture for use here, the lovely circular ripples from raindrops impacting the surface. The diffraction caused by the expanding rings produces a very pretty image. I suspect that if man had created the universe this simple vision would have been deleted as too costly for no purpose other than appearance.
The next picture was taken from my back door looking toward the swimming pool. The rain was heavy enough at this point that the distant fence was just visible. Yet, because of it’s slow shutter, my Kodak did not catch any of the drops in mid fall. The only evidence of rain is the disturbed surface on the swimming pool. Click this picture for a larger view.
The rain lasted only thirty minutes but the effect on the trees, plants, and grass has been dramatic. City water just lacks something that doesn’t cause plants to thrive like rain.
Something has happened to my entertainment taste in the last 6 months. Prior to that I would not watch a musical. Now I seek them out. I am watching Kismet with Howard Keel and Ann Blythe on TCM and enjoying every song. Life has been a long adjustment and is sometimes very exhausting.
 | 9/17: Dear Lord, give us boldness and wisdom to tell people about salvation in Christ Jesus. Amen. The prayers are from the Upper Room. For your own free E-Mail Devotional visit : http://upperroom.org/devotional/email/ and click on the link “Other Ways to Receive the Daily Devotional” | |
Paddy had long heard the stories of an amazing family tradition. It seems that his father, grandfather and great-grandfather had all been able to walk on water on their 18th birthday. On that special day, they'd each walked across the lake to the pub on the far side of the lake for their first legal drink.
So when Paddy's, 18th birthday came around, he and his pal Mick, took a boat out to the middle of the lake, Paddy, stepped out of the boat and nearly drowned!
Mick just barely managed to pull him to safety.
Furious and confused, Paddy, went to see his grandmother.
'Grandma,' he asked, "Tis me 18th birthday, Lard so why can't I walk 'cross the lake like me father, his father, and his father before him?"
Granny looked deeply into Paddy's, troubled brown eyes and said, "Because ye father, ye grandfather and ye great-grandfather were all born in December, when the lake is frozen, and ye were born in August, ya idiot!"
”The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.”
Mark Twain
SGGP
No comments:
Post a Comment