Dale offers the prompt “shades of gray” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
Without having to change a color photo to black and white, the sand on a beach offers a lot of gray.
These photos were taken on the beaches at the 71st and 72nd streets of Miami Beach.
Dale offers the prompt “corrosion and decay” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
I don’t think the jellyfish washed to shore will survive.
Dale offers the prompt “what’s flowering where you are” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
We are currently travelling in southern Florida between Tampa and Miami. I noticed these while walking on sidewalks in the Miami area.
I don’t know what these plants are or even if they are technically flowers, but they were colorful which drew my attention to them.
Dale offers the prompt “a new year dawns” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
Focusing on the word “dawn” and realizing I was often in Florida for New Year’s I picked a few of my favorite winter sunrises over the Atlantic Ocean.
Dale offers the prompt “2023’s greatest clicks” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
I don’t know why I like these, perhaps, the colors, perhaps, the shapes.
Waters rush within,
living rivers flow—
wise men follow star—
God is here not far,
nearer than we know.
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Matthew 2:1-2
1 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,
2 Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.
John 7:38
38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
Merry Christmas
Dale offers the prompt “show us your Christmas” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge. The above ornament is somewhere on the tree.
Also posted on Poet’s Corner.
Dale offers the prompt “Christmas art” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge, the last regular challenge of 2023.
Although I didn’t make the wreath below, I did hang it on the door.
For the other three I used LaTeX this past weekend to insert text over photographs that I took some time ago.
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May the Lord bless you this Christmas season
Dale offers “festive illuminations” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
The wreath decorates the entrance to the Upper Room Chapel in Fort Mill, SC. We went to a worship service there last Saturday evening and I remembered to take some photos of festive illuminations.
Dale offers the prompt “a cold start” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
Below are pictures of snow taken some years ago to help all of those in northern climates get ready for winter.
In South Carolina, it is cool, but not this cold. These pictures remind me of one reason why we moved south although there were times that the snow was beautiful and I do miss those.
Dale offers the prompt “through an opening” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
These are all older photos over many years. In the first photo, I imagined the clouds making an opening for the sun to shine.
In the second, the rocks made an opening for the plants to grow.
In the third I imagined the cracks between the stones forming the Western Wall in Jerusalem made an opening for petitions.
Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 