Odd Shots--it's tax time!

Income tax deadline in the US is coming up this week.

Some things I find odd:

1. Why does anyone think having people stand on street corners in Statue of Liberty costumes will encourage people to use their tax preparation service? (especially when there are three liberties on the same corner,

when lady liberty has a beard and a moustache,

or when lady liberty is six foot five and bald and the gown hangs to her knees.)

2. Did the guy who thought this up come from somewhere in Arizona

or some other warm climate state?

Because standing Lady Liberty on the corner in a thin robe starting in January in the northern states is cruel and unusual punishment.

And she looks pretty silly with her hoodie and muffler.

And look what the wind is doing to the robe.

3. And oddest of all--what is this "Have fun and get your taxes done" thing? Who's gonna buy that line?

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Sunday's Psalm--He is Risen!

He is truly risen!

R. This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad.

Rimrock Lake sunrise

Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good,
for his mercy endures forever.
Let the house of Israel say,
"His mercy endures forever."

This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad.

"The right hand of the LORD has struck with power;
the right hand of the LORD is exalted.

Ohanepecosh

I shall not die, but live,
and declare the works of the LORD."

Resnev Museum, Siberia

This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad.

The stone which the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone.

trail marker cairn, Arches National Park

By the LORD has this been done;
it is wonderful in our eyes.

Arches National Park

This is the day the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad.

wild and domestic geese

Psalm 118: 1-2, 16-17, 22-23

PhotoHunt--Theme: Triangles

A myriad of triangles makes a structure strong.

PhotoHunt is hosted at TnChick's place.

Good Friday

I went to school for the first time since I cleared out my things after being laid off last summer. (I've been to a couple of events, but they were away from campus.) It was the Good Friday prayer service when the eighth graders portray the Way of the Cross. I made it through without shedding any tears--but barely. I miss the kids.

The first full moon after the vernal equinox

...determines the date of Easter Sunday.

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Earlier in the evening of Wednesday I could get some of the moon's shadows.
Later, I couldn't, but the clouds formed a sign of the cross.
Clouds? or contrails?

Other SkyWatchers here.

ABC Wednesday--L is for...

Some places to visit:

ABC Wednesday site to find other interesting Ls.

Denise Nesbitt, who originated ABC Wednesday.

L is for Lake.

In the course of my hikes and travels I have visited quite a few lakes.

From the tiniest:

It took three hours and seven switchbacks along the trail to hike to the tiny Owyhigh Lakes in Mt. Rainier National Park. A quiet rest in the meadow was worth it.

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to the largest:

Lake Baikal in central Siberia contains one fifth of the world's fresh water. It is the deepest lake in the world--more than a mile, and has more water than the five Great Lakes of North America combined. However, Lake Superior has a larger surface area.

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Wading in Lake Baikal:

Local custom has it that swimming in Lake Baikal will add 20 years to your life. Wading in the lake will add five years.

Reservoirs are man made lakes:

It was on this cruise of Lake Periyar on the border of Kerala and TamilNadu in India that I saw the elephants from E is for.... We cruised to the dam which formed the lake--now part of the Periyar Tiger Preserve and National Park. (We didn't see any tigers.)

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low water level

Here at Lake Shasta in Northern California, and below at Lake Powell on the Arizona Utah border, you can see the line marking where the water level of these lakes once was. Water in the American West sparks heated debates among irrigators, electrical users, recreational users, and other interests. In the many years that I have driven past Lake Shasta, I don't think I have ever it full to the high water mark.

hiking on the lake bed:

Rimrock Lake is an irrigation reservoir, and the end of the growing season leaves the boaters and fishermen out of luck, but gives an interesting opportunity to take a hike on the lake bed. This was the first time I ever walked to an island over dry land.

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reflections:

Shadow Lake gives a mirror glimpse of Mt. Rainier...

as Lake Manzanita reflects Mt. Lassen in Northern California...

and my Dad captured Mirror Lake in Yosemite National Park eighty years ago.
A few more weeks from thie November shot and Tipsoo Lake would have been iced over, the reflection gone until June.

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a lake can be a great place for a summer cabin

Deer Lake, north of Spokane, Washington is lined with cabins. There are very few year round residents.

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a lake can be green:

This unnamed lake in the White River Valley at Mt. Rainier reflects green because of the "glacial flour", particles of rock ground down by the Emmons Glacier.

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or can be called Green:

A single kayaker on Green Lake in Seattle. Urban lakes provide a respite from the rat race.

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more urban lakes:

A plane lands on Lake Union--another of Seattle's lakes.
And the Lake Washington Floating Bridge stretches across another of Seattle's lakes, carrying I-90 traffic to and from the city.

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What variety there is in the world's lakes!

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Palm Sunday

When Jesus and his disciples drew near to Jerusalem,to Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples and said to them, "Go into the village opposite you,and immediately on entering it, you will find a colt tethered on which no one has ever sat.

Untie it and bring it here.If anyone should say to you,'Why are you doing this?' reply,'The Master has need of itand will send it back here at once.'"So they went off and found a colt tethered at a gate outside on the street, and they untied it.Some of the bystanders said to them, "What are you doing, untying the colt?"They answered them just as Jesus had told them to, and they permitted them to do it.So they brought the colt to Jesusand put their cloaks over it.And he sat on it.

Many people spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches that they had cut from the fields.Those preceding him as well as those following kept crying out:"Hosanna!Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!Blessed is the kingdom of our father David that is to come!Hosanna in the highest!"

Mark 11:1-10

Sunday's Psalm--Palm Sunday

R. My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?

All who see me scoff at me;
they mck me with parted lips, they wag their heads:
"He relied on the LORD; let him deliver him,
let him rescue him, if he loves him."

from a winter hike

My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?

Indeed, many dogs surround me,
a pack of evildoers closes in on me;
They have piereced my hands and my feet;
I can count all my bones.

taken in Arizona

My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?

They divided my garments among them,
and for my vesture they cast lots.
But you, O LORD, be not far from me;
O my help, hasten to aid me.

Bryce Canyon National Park

My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?


I will proclaim your name to my brethren;
in the midst of the assembly I will praise you:
"You who fear the LORD, praise him;
all you descendants of Jacob, give glory to him;
rever him, all you descendants of Israel!"

shrine of St. Thomas, Chennai, India

My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?

Psalm 22: 8-9, 17-18, 19-20, 23-24

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