WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE: Close

“Great is the gap” as opening when the prompt is “Close” does make one wonder (to say the least) about the appropriateness of this response, doesn’t it?  

Please indulge me a bit.  Maybe, just maybe, I will hit the spot in the end.  :-)

Great is the gap
between the earth and sky
We can dream
Our souls can fly.

Free from the shackles
holding us to the world
heaven is a place
we all can behold.

Isn’t it true
that God Himself
closed the distance
between heaven and earth?

By becoming Man
He sanctified our breath
that by His resurrection
we may have life forever blest.

Well, I did get the sun to be near the earthly things.  That should be a response close enough to the prompt. Oh well.

Have a beautiful blessed day to you.

~Imelda

BECAUSE IT’S A RAINY DAY

… I am posting some sunshine.

And because it is rainy, I think I will have lots of dripping wet pictures again, babies permitting.

I hope these rains will go visit those who are experiencing drought and forest fires at this time.

Have a blessed day, whatever kind of weather you are having now.

~Imelda

P.S. You can click the pictures to have a bigger image.

WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE: Sun

For the Weekly Photo Challenge, I took several pictures of the sun at around 12:30 p.m., when the sun was way up there in the sky.  It was, to say the least, a most uncomfortable experience to the eye.  Hopefully, staring at the sun and squinting at the camera would not bring a big headache later.  It was a fun experience though.  So I guess, the end result mitigated  all of the discomforts.

And I hope it is alright to repost a picture, but the other day, I posted a picture of these tulips for the last challenge.  This was taken early in the morning when the sun was just barely out of the horizon.   I am including it here because in this photo, the sun is, should I say, the crowning glory of the flowers.

Here too is another photo which I took purposely to make the sun the focus of the scene.  This was taken at around 10:30 in the morning.

Thank you for visiting.  Please feel free to leave a comment.  I assure you, they are much appreciated.

Have a beautiful blessed day.

Imelda