Photo and Commentary ©2024 by Cheryl Boardman
Monday, September 9, 2024
I’ve been seeing osprey (like the one pictured) flying and nesting all along the Columbia, the Wenatchee and other rivers and lakes throughout North Central Washington and up into BC’s interior. There are a lot of poles with platforms on them that have been placed near these waterways and the ospreys build huge nests on the platforms where they raise their chicks. I saw the one pictured years ago while I was driving and I stopped and got out and it actually let me approach fairly close (although the picture has been cropped quite a bit)!
Let all that I am praise the Lord.
O Lord my God, how great you are!
You are robed with honor and majesty.
You are dressed in a robe of light.
You stretch out the starry curtain of the heavens;
you lay out the rafters of your home in the rain clouds.
You make the clouds your chariot;
you ride upon the wings of the wind.
The winds are your messengers;
flames of fire are your servants.
You placed the world on its foundation
so it would never be moved.
You clothed the earth with floods of water,
water that covered even the mountains.
At your command, the water fled;
at the sound of your thunder, it hurried away.
Mountains rose and valleys sank
to the levels you decreed.
Then you set a firm boundary for the seas,
so they would never again cover the earth.
You make springs pour water into the ravines,
so streams gush down from the mountains.
They provide water for all the animals,
and the wild donkeys quench their thirst.
The birds nest beside the streams
and sing among the branches of the trees.
You send rain on the mountains from your heavenly home,
and you fill the earth with the fruit of your labor.
Psalm 104:1-3 (NLT)