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| Rapture On 14th Avenue |
I guess some people were disappointed that they missed the rapture last month, but they are in luck since the guy who's calling the shots (no, not God; some guy in South Africa) says the new date is either today or tomorrow. Hooray! According to the news I've heard, people are preparing themselves to float up into the sky. I would just offer a word of caution: be sure to wear your blaze orange vests so duck hunters will know to hold their fire.
Another interesting thing I learned today is that the word "rapture" does not appear in the Bible. Nevertheless, what the rapturists are talking about can be read in Matthew 24:1-51. Two things to note: 1) Jesus says that no one but God knows when it will happen; and 2) there will be many false prophets beforehand.
Do people listen? No, they do not. And now they are about to be disappointed yet again. Luckily, they can still find rapture right here on planet Earth while keeping their feet firmly planted on the ground.
I like the Merriam-Webster definitions of rapture: 1) an expression or manifestation of ecstasy or passion; 2a) a state or experience of being carried away by overwhelming emotion; and 2b) a mystical experience in which the spirit is exalted to a knowledge of divine things.
Rapture is part of our birthright as human beings. It just needs to be claimed.
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| The crepuscular rays (or "god-beams") wowed me as soon as I saw them, but they kept getting even better as I continued walking. From crepuscular rays to brocken specters, you gotta love that sun-fog interface. |
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| My favorite princess flower tree. It's my favorite because of the way the profusion of petals decorates the ground and sidewalk beneath the tree. |
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| I was riding past the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival on Sunday when a coyote got caught out in the open and quickly darted into cover. The many festival attendees and copious fencing around the stages likely impacted their usual travel routes and routines. |
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| Pelicans Resting at Seal Rocks |
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| As I was sitting in our back yard garden area I noticed a mouse dart toward a corner of the next-door neighbor's place. Moments later I heard a strange sound like crinkling plastic coming from a different next-door neighbor's place. When I got up to investigate the sound, a red-shouldered hawk flew up with the corner-mouse in its talons and fluttered up into the second neighbor's oak tree. While I watched the hawk (which somehow descended on the mouse without my seeing it happen), I heard the plastic crinkle sound again: a crow was bouncing on a thin oak branch, and the leaves scraping the leaves on another branch made the strange sound. |
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| There wasn't much light left out back when I returned to our garden bench and watched this hummingbird feeding on some of our flowers, so I was surprised to get a decent shot with a 1/125th sec. exposure @ ISO 3200. |
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