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A Letter to you Pet Poisoners

Dear Pet Poisoner (aka Neighbour, Friend, Mother, Father, Guy/Girl Next Door),

There you are, all smug, grinning from ear to ear at your cleverness.

Here I am. I started my morning digging a grave.

I don’t know where my cat is, and I have to be dealing with the aftermath of the pain and suffering you caused.

Still you smile.

You are a murderer.

Don’t think so? Let me repeat it for emphasis.

You are a murderer.

You are the wicked.

Let your violent dealing come down upon your own pate.

Turn from your wicked ways. Repent or Perish.

Tribute to Bigs (Missing) & Experiment with Composition

I cannot put into words how angry I am right now, how distressed by the wickedness of man and how much I’m pleading with God to wipe some wicked people off the face of the earth. Maybe even from eternity.

Here’s a tribute to my beautiful Mr. Bigs, who has been missing since yesterday, and I strongly suspect foul play. May God deal with those responsible however He sees fit.

If you’ve seen him, please let me know.

Now, unto the Photo 101 “Experiment With Composition” assignment, which I was too distraught to do, so these are some of the photos I took but didn’t submit for the assignments this week.

Solitude & Wayfaring Men

Photo 101 Day 4: Solitude & Rule of Thirds

This is the first photo of a brand new estate, tentatively named “Wayfaring Man.” Maybe.

Shortly after arriving in the island, I took the goats for a walk and set foot (and eyes), like Christopher Columbus many hundreds of years before, on “the fairest land mine eyes have ever seen.” Little did I know at the time that God would move heaven and earth to give it to His children, and all within a few short months. A living miracle. My God is simply amazing. How people live without the blessings of God in their lives, I’ll never understand.

How does this fit the solitude theme? Well, the clue is in the tentative name.

Jeremiah 9:2

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

Bliss

A blissful afternoon on the beach at Silver Sands, Jamaica.

This is a placeholder for my Photo 101 “Bliss & Captions” submission, as true bliss can only be found in God. However, a nice afternoon on the beach is quite blissful in its own way. I’ll try to take a new picture tomorrow to stay on track with the goal of all new pictures for the Photo 101 course.

Water & Reflection

I didn’t get to go out to take the shot I envisioned for today’s Photo 101 assignment: “Water & Orientation.” I got some beautiful shots of reflections in murky rainwater, bubbles, water stills, the works, but they weren’t quite what I wanted. Then I opened up PicMonkey and there was a tutorial on digital double exposures. So my submission for “Water & Orientation” is actually two pictures in one (hopefully different orientations). Both are reflections. One is an image reflected in a mirror and the other is a picture of a flower floating in rainwater, reflecting the sun, sky and trees. The positioning of the flower in the double exposure is pure serendipity and elevates the work to art.

Street

Here’s my “Street & Establishing Shot” submission for Photo 101. This is a street scene from Falmouth, Jamaica.

I’ve been admonished for deciding to repeat the Photo 101 course, with lots of examples of people who’ve made it all the way to their PhD’s without having to repeat the basic concepts of undergrad being bandied about. Even my email seems to be colluding against me as I didn’t receive today’s assignment. Anyway, I press on. Contrast this to my previous submission for “Street.” I incorporated concepts such as “street photography,” “wide angle” and “establishing” this time, when two months ago I wasn’t even sure what these were. Progress?

Home

What says “Home” to you?

This is “Home.” It has been “home” for decades, although the original painting, which was pastel and had flowers, has been lost to time and restoration.

May it be “home” in the best sense of the word for the time to come, and may it be richly blessed by God.

Photo 101 Day 1: Home & Getting Oriented (Yes, I have upgraded the camera and am re-doing the course. Here’s to a month of beautiful pictures.)

Wordless Wednesday: Beautiful Pink

One from my current “Pictures of Clothes Pins” project.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

Weekly Photo Challenge: On the Way

In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “On the Way.”

I took this shaky photo one night a few weeks ago while walking to a gospel concert at a nearby church. I’m not sure who this is, but he sure was quite a sight in the dark. May God remember him and have mercy on his soul.

Proverbs 2:11,20

Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:

That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

Wordless Wednesday: Shoes are the Windows to the Sole

Deuteronomy 29:5

And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.