Nature Photos

[David1701]

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A macro of a Dandelion flower.

 

[Carbon]

Back to nature photos...

A macro of a Dandelion flower.

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God is amazing!

 

[Alive]

 

[David1701]

God is amazing!

He certainly is! No matter whether we look at the vast night sky, or the tiny details in a flower - God designed and made it all and he upholds it all by the word of his power.

 

[Alive]

He certainly is! No matter whether we look at the vast night sky, or the tiny details in a flower - God designed and made it all and he upholds it all by the word of his power.

All my life, I have looked at Creation and seen Him there. It gives me much joy.

 

[Arial]

All my life, I have looked at Creation and seen Him there. It gives me much joy.

This goes away from actual nature photos, but I have found analogies I guess you could call them, of God in many aspects of nature, and in this we can see is absolute perfection and wisdom. I was out for a long walk one day and decided to look for the very character and power and perfection and wisdom of God in what I saw. And here is one thing.

If you focus your vision to say a few feet around you in any direction, what you see is wonderful, and then in the same spot look into the distance---I love long views---the entire perspective change and you see the whole more clearly. Big picture. "He will crush you head, and you will bruise his heel."

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, 'Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor cryng, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away."

Both are incredibly powerful and glorious.

 

[Alive]

This goes away from actual nature photos, but I have found analogies I guess you could call them, of God in many aspects of nature, and in this we can see is absolute perfection and wisdom. I was out for a long walk one day and decided to look for the very character and power and perfection and wisdom of God in what I saw. And here is one thing.

If you focus your vision to say a few feet around you in any direction, what you see is wonderful, and then in the same spot look into the distance---I love long views---the entire perspective change and you see the whole more clearly. Big picture. "He will crush you head, and you will bruise his heel."

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, 'Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor cryng, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away."

Both are incredibly powerful and glorious.

Amen! I taught my kids perspective in that manner while hiking in the woods and mountains. The analogy was how different things look as you gain altitude looking down and tying that to time and experience. I told them, what they know and see now will change over time and distance.

 

[David1701]

A butterfly in the garden.

 

[Alive]

A large stick bug.

 

[makesends]

Amen! I taught my kids perspective in that manner while hiking in the woods and mountains. The analogy was how different things look as you gain altitude looking down and tying that to time and experience. I told them, what they know and see now will change over time and distance.

Please don't take this for Scripture, , but:

There are many things I have noticed that carry a certain aura or atmosphere about them, when considered or viewed from a distance, but when looked at more closely turn out to be rather disappointingly different.

A couple examples: When I am driving down the road, and see a beautiful green mountain slope off the side of the road, with a copse of trees here and there with grass uninterrupted, sometimes waving in the breeze, I get that sense of beauty that is at least changed, if not ruined, by closer inspection, with all the ankle-turning rocks and ditches, etc. Again, when I go exploring woods, backroads and trails, without a map, there is a sense of wonder and mystery that having a map or gps kind of ruins.

I once knew a lady to whom I could tell about such things, and when I did, even when I knew of the closer inspection, it seemed that the view I had WAS real, in spite of the closer details. It gave me to wonder if, when we get to heaven, the reality of these things will not be both that view and the details, with no disappointment at all.

It also, God bless them, helps (yeah I know, it doesn't seem like it) me to have patience with how some people use Scripture.

 

[David1701]

A large stick bug.
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It's amazing how good the camouflage is that God has given these insects.

 

[Alive]

It's amazing how good the camouflage is that God has given these insects.

Yup…an amazing dovetailing of diversity.
I so am blessed observing His Creation and seeing Him there.

 

[prism]

A large stick bug.
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My wife is not convinced it's a bug anything. Is that a looped string at the top?

 

[Alive]

My wife is not convinced it's a bug anything. Is that a looped string at the top?

It’s a real bug. That is its tail.

 

[Alive]

https://www.nwf.org/Educational-Resources/Wildlife-Guide/Invertebrates/Walking-Sticks

 

[makesends]

My wife is not convinced it's a bug anything. Is that a looped string at the top?

Tell her to look up "Walking Stick Insect". Some are really long! Seen a lot of them in South America. Not so much in the States.

 

[Arial]

My wife is not convinced it's a bug anything. Is that a looped string at the top?

Here is its head! It's a bug alright.

 

[Alive]

I have seen a number of them here. That one made it from that side of the house around to the front porch and was on the ceiling. Prolly still there.

 

[prism]

Here is its head! It's a bug alright.

She said, "Ok,Ok, I'm convinced." lol

 

[David1701]

A lily after the rain.