Little White Flowers of God, Joshua Tree, CA

Photo by Rich Seeley (Leica D-Lux 4)


Painting by Peggy Radcliffe (16x20 acrylic on stretched canvas)

GLORY be to God for dappled things ...

All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
Praise him.
-- from Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89)

Oasis Community Church, 29 Palms CA

Dan and Sharon Baele, pastors since 1997।

Photo by Rich Seeley (Leica D-Lux 4)

Painting by Peggy Radcliffe (16x20 acrylic on stretched canvas)

On the Wing, Joshua Tree National Park

Photo by Rich Seeley (Leica D-Lux 4)


Painting by Peggy Radcliffe (acrylic on canvas (16x20)

Imperfection

Photo by Rich Seeley (Leica D-Lux 4)


Painting by Peggy Radcliffe (16x20 acrylic on stretched canvas)

We cannot avoid missing the point of almost everything we do. But what of it? Life is not a matter of getting something out of everything. Life itself is imperfect. All created beings begin to die as soon as they begin to live, and no one expects any one of them to become absolutely perfect, still less to stay that way. Each individual thing is only a sketch of the specific perfection planned for its kind. Why should we ask it to be anything more? -- Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island

Sand Blazing Star, Joshua Tree CA

Photo by Rich Seeley (Leica D-Lux 4)


Painting by Peggy Radcliffe (16x20 acrylic on stretched canvas)

Parish's Gold Poppy, Joshua Tree CA

Photo by Rich Seeley (Leica D-Lux 4)


Painting by Peggy L. Radcliffe (16x20 acrylic on stretched canvas)

Beavertail Cactus bloom, Joshua Tree, CA

Photo by Rich Seeley (Leica D-Lux 4)



Painting by Peggy L. Radcliffe (acrylic on stretched canvas 16 x 20)

Spenser's Road

Photo by Rich Seeley


Painting by Peggy L. Radcliffe


that cat wanted to ride
in every car or truck
he ever saw
“ride momma ride”
every door an opening
he wanted to go through
there was more
on the other side
always something new
always a chance to ride
until he broke through
the last portal on earth
and rode down this road
which while you can’t see it
goes all the way home

Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, 29 Palms CA

Photo by Rich Seeley



Painting by Peggy L. Radcliffe

Joshua Tree 03

Photo by Rich Seeley



Painting by Peggy Radcliffe

Joshua Tree 02

Joshua Tree 01

Late Spring Blooms, Living Desert, Palm Desert CA

Safe House

Where to see God

Since most of us aren't likely to see God in a burning bush, Thomas Merton suggested that young religious look for God in his creation.

Armenian Apostolic Church, Rancho Mirage, CA (under construction)

The Armenian Apostolic Church was founded by Jesus Christ, the church's Website explains. According to tradition, two of His Apostles — St. Thaddeus and St. Bartholomew — preached His Gospel in Armenia as early as the second half of the first century. Then in the early fourth century St. Gregory the Illuminator formally established the Church in Armenia, when King Tiridates III was baptized and declared Christianity as the state religion. Indeed, the Christianization of Armenia “determined the entire future course of Armenian history”

Peace is not symbolic to the war dead

Four flags over Palm Desert CA

Park without people

First date?

The duck they left behind

Wind Damage Palm Desert, CA

Mother's Day

"Nothing can be achieved without sincere love." -- Sarada Devi, Holy Mother of the Ramakrishna Order

Seventh Day Adventist Church, Palm Springs, CA

Revelation 14:12
Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

Desert Chapel, Palm Springs, CA

This is a branch of Foursquare Gospel Church founded in 1918 by Aimee Semple McPherson in Los Angeles.

Sister Aimee, a Pentecostal pioneer, built the 5,300-seat Angelus Temple in L.A.'s Echo Park neighborhood. Opened in 1923 and still operating today, it was one of the first mega churches in the U.S.

'I'm listening ...'

A third of married women said their pets are better listeners than their husbands, according to an Associated Press-Petside.com poll released [this past week]. Eighteen percent of husbands said their pets are better listeners than their wives.

Christ in the Desert Catholic Church, Palm Desert CA

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come. – 2 Corinthians 5:17

Just visiting this planet ...