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)