#CosPhoChal – Page 21 – Poetry, Short Prose and Walking

Christmas Sunrise

Dale offers the prompt “show us your Christmas” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge. I am posting some photos of the sunrise over the Atlantic Ocean on Christmas morning.

Featured Photographs

Dale offers the prompt “your best bits” featuring what we feel are our best photos from this past year for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

Dale offers the prompt “’tis the season” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge. I can safely wish for snow in Florida for the Christmas season since I know it won’t snow. I included two snowy scenes from northern Illinois that remind me of what the season should look like at Christmas-time.

Eugenia offers the word “summit” for this week’s Thursday Prompt. Below are two photos from lookout points on the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina.

To tie these two together, I’m thinking ’tis the season of Christmas wherever we may be. May we realize that Jesus is the summit of our lives.

Pisgah National Forest, Overlook — On a summit at the Pisgah National Forest overlooking the Blue Ridge Mountains

From a lookout point over the Blue Ridge Mountains

A Cold Start

Dale offers the theme “a cold start” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge. Since I’m in Florida at the moment these are photos of Lake Michigan from past winters.

Art For Art’s Sake

Dale offers the prompt “art for art’s sake” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge. I’m unsure what art for art’s sake means, so I selected recent photos of fall foliage and thought of them in a picture frame.

Autumn Tree Framed As Art By A Kitchen Window

Let’s Hear It For The Leaves

Dale offers the prompt “let’s hear it for the leaves” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

Enchanted By Interesting Textures

Dale offered the prompt “interesting textures” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

These are old photos. I wonder why I keep using them. In the photo above, the detailed textures of the footprints remind me that, being made in the image of God (Genesis 1:27), we are a distinct and separate creation from anything else that God created. For example, we are very proficient at speaking and understanding words. We are not silent and our words express moral power through blessings or curses.

In the photo below the textures of the white stone, red gravel, dark cavities, green vegetation and fallen leaves presented together seem to have enchanted me. I’m glad Eugenia offered the word “enchanted” for her Thursday Prompt which gives me an excuse to describe them in that way.

Being enchanted, however, suggests to me on the negative side being “manipulated”, “deluded”, or “under a spell of words”. Having been under many I am wary of enchantments. I wonder: Why am I so fond of these photos? To avert any harm, if they seem enchanting to you, may they also be blessings.