God Cares

Photo ©2004 and Commentary ©2025 by Chuck Davis Monday, November 23, 2025 You will likely encounter the Canada Jay in the winter. They often appear to backcountry travelers during lunchtime on the snow. Formerly known as the Gray Jay, they have many other names as...

Gleams

Photo and Commentary ©2025 by Shelley Schurch Sunday, November 23, 2025 As we traveled down our familiar trail on our morning walk last week, I suddenly saw what you see in my photo – gold-leafed trees bathed by the sun in the distance, with bare black bushes and...

Precaution

Photo and Commentary ©2025 by Maylan Schurch Sabbath, November 22, 2025 Farm kids like me were taught to drive earlier than city kids. I learned not from a driver’s ed class but from a nervous farmer-father whose already heavy worry-load would become super-crushing...

Outside the Garden

Photo and Commentary ©2025 by Maylan Schurch Friday, November 21, 2025 On a post-breakfast stroll with Shelley this past Tuesday, I saw this little leaf poking through a crack in a board fence. Even though the ravages of autumn have started to cause a bit of...

Generations

Photo ©2025 by Amber Jurgensen Commentary ©2025 Russell Jurgensen Wednesday, November 19, 2025 In this photo a great-grandaughter sticks close to her great-grandpa. No matter where he went, she stayed beside him, followed close behind, or rode on his lap. It made me...

Zoom In or Zoom Out?

Photo and Commentary ©2025 by Darren Milam Wednesday, November 19, 2025 If you examine the first image, what do you see? To me, it appears to be strands of beads of some sort. Regardless of what you came up with, it’s based on this close-up, or a narrow focus....