Sunday's Psalm--Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will.

I have waited, waited for the LORD,
and he stooped toward me and heard my cry.
And he put a new song into my mouth,
a hymn to our God.
 

Here am I, Lord; 

I come to do your will.
 

 

Sacrifice or offering you wished not,
but ears open to obedience you gave me.
Holocausts or sin-offerings you sought not;
then said I, "Behold I come."

 

Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will.

"In the written scroll it is prescribed for me,
to do your will, O my God, is my delight,
and your law is within my heart!"

 

Here am I, Lord; 
I come to do your will.


I announced your justice in the vast assembly;
I did not restrain my lips, as you, O LORD, know.
 

Here am I, Lord; 
I come to do your will.

from Psalm 40

Headbangers: part trois

As promised, here are the six that I found identified. Dave says he found nine. I will have to blow it up and look again.

Headbangers: part deux

Okay, visiting the headbangers reminded me of other Photographing the Photographers images I have in my files. Tom--the Fishing Guy had a funhouse mirror. We encountered one in Edinburgh on the Royal Mile.

 

Imac had two shots of people bending back to get a shot of family in a touristy spot. Here is my daughter doing the same at Mt. St. Helens a couple of years ago.

Part trois will show you all six of the photographers in the header photo in case you haven't found them. I'm leaving the mystery till after the voting.

BTW, you will find the other headbangers linked in my sidebar. Give them a visit.

Headbangers: Photograph the Photographer

I thought for sure I knew what I was going to use as soon as Imac announced the Headbangers' theme for this week: Photograph the Photographers. This summer my husband decided that he too wanted a camera. So our first trek out he was taking pictures left and right.

Or maybe I could somehow include the one, the only Imac himself:

Or be a bit narcissistic and use this one I got playing with my new phone.

But then I got to poking around for some other stuff and realized that if you want to photograph the photographers, then you need to go to a photogenic event. And last September I once again went to the Prosser Balloon Rally--a very photogenic event. And where you have a photogenic event, you find a swarm of photographers.

So here is one photographer:


















Here are two photographers (One is at the far left in the distance snapping the green and black balloon):

Here are three photographers:

And heading into the header--how many photographers can you find in this one?

I count at least [   six.     ] Highlight the space  between the brackets to see my answer. Do you see them? Can you see more than that?

ABC Revisiting Z

 Coming to the end of our ABC Wednesday revisits, we have come to Z in Round 9. Round 10 will be coming up next week and we start again with A. I found ABC Wednesday at the start of Round 2, so have been doing this for four years.

This round was revisiting places I have been, so here are  Zebras from two Zoos. The one above in Phoenix last November, and the one below joining his giraffe friends at Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo a few years ago is the same one as the one at the top. I think. They do rather resemble each other don't they?

At the San Francisco Zoo in 2010 we saw the gorillas, including baby  Hasani below, who was not quite two years old. I wonder how big he is now.

This young orangutan was at the Phoenix Zoo this fall. Dad is seen below.

 Seeing double in Phoenix.

 Giraffes are a favorite of mine and feeding them in Seattle was a special treat for my birthday. (The group in the top are in Phoenix and the mug shots below are from San Francisco.)

Odd Shot

Endangered Species Carrousel

I wonder how many dragon horses remain in the wild.

Share your odd shot here and visit other odd shotters.

Sunday's Psalm--The Epiphany of the Lord

 Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.

O God, with your judgment endow the king,
and with your justice, the king's son;
He shall govern your people with justice
and your afflicted ones with judgment.

  



Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.

Justice shall flower in his days,
and profound peace, till the moon be no more.
May he rule from sea to sea,
and from the River to the ends of the earth.









Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.

The kings of Tarshish and the Isles shall offer gifts;
the kings of Arabia and Seba shall bring tribute.
All kings shall pay him homage,
all nations shall serve him.








Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.

For he shall rescue the poor when he cries out,
and the afflicted when he has no one to help him.
He shall have pity for the lowly and the poor;
the lives of the poor he shall save.




Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.

from Psalm 72
Visit Daily Athens where others who illustrate psalms in their blogs link. 

ABC Wednesday Revisiting Y

 Does this remind you of the the James Herriot series All Creatures Great and Small? I can just picture him driving that old car to this farm in Yorkshire to care for these sheep.

Find ABC Wednesday here, 

and if you haven't played before, 

a new round will be starting in two weeks.

Time for the Headbangers--New Beginnings

Our headbangers theme this week is New Beginnings -- theme provided by Chris.

I wandered through the photos collected just on my laptop during the last year looking for one certain type of picture--which I did not find. But I did find quite a few others that might fit the bill.

 A new moon.

The blooming of the anemone announces the beginning of a new hiking season.

 

Beginning a new adventure at the Balloon Rally

New baby Komodo Dragons at the Phoenix Zoo.

 

Dawn of a new day while visiting my brother.

Finally settling on this header image which should signal a new beginning to anyone who sees it.

But let me announce another New Beginning--

my new blog Reflecting Daily launched January 1.

New Year's Resolution in an Odd Shot

We saw this distracting message several times as we drove through the Reno, Nevada area recently. I put away the camera as soon as I got the shot. (Actually, I was not driving, so it was okay.) It has a good point!!!

Please resolve to not answer your cell phone while driving this year...but remember that the cell phone is not the only distraction. Quit fiddling with the radio dials on the freeway... If you have to discipline the kids, pull off...Eating while driving? I do, but I am very careful about what I pick up in the drive through--some foods just do not lend themselves to multitasking. And after all, multitasking is not a good idea while driving.

Okay, down off my soapbox, but I want to keep what readers I do have, so resolve to stay safe and post an Odd Shot every week. ☺