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This old pic of my pond serves as a good-bye.  The traffic here for my work on tumblr is so light, I think it best that I take my photos to my public Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/MarkMarshallAuthor/ If you would “like” that page, I would appreciate it. I will keep this tumblr up for now and keep enjoying others’ tumblrs, especially on art and history.  But if you want to keep up with me, that Facebook page is the place to go. Thanks and good-bye.

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Bear Creek from the FM 2722 bridge, Texas

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Baby Jesus has second thoughts about the Incarnation when he is circumcised ... with a large audience.

The Circumcision, by Ludovico Mazzolino, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice.

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Chora, Byzantine monastery 

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On my bucket list.

Whitby Abbey

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“Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine, but demonic.” - Pope Benedict XVI

#popebenedictxvi #wisdom

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The brushfire on my place earlier this month.

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There was a big uncontrolled brush fire on my land this past weekend.  I’ll be posting some photos of it and the aftermath. What started it is unknown.  Maybe an idiot’s cig.

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I have ground fog at my place a lot.  But one morning, the fog was pretty much a thick cloud only over my pond.

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Liberals love to say things like, ‘We’re just asking everyone to pay their fair share.’ But government is not about asking. It is about telling. The difference is fundamental. It is the difference between making love and being raped, between working for a living and being a slave. The Internal Revenue service is not asking anybody to do anything. It confiscates your assets and puts you behind bars if you don’t pay.

Thomas Sowell (via philosophicalconservatism)

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I hope everyone has a somewhat safe All Saints Eve and an excellent All Saints Day.   I’ve posted an excerpt from my novel Pilot Point for the occasion at the link.  Enjoy and God bless.

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The tree frogs all over my house are not quite this big, but there are a lot of them!  Should I be scared?

October Shock & Schlock Day 8 (2/2) - Frogs (1972)

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I love medieval depictions of Jesus descending into Hell . . . and kicking Satan's ass.

Illuminated manuscript, Book of Hours in Dutch, Harrowing of hell, Walters Manuscript W.188, fol. 122r by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts http://flic.kr/p/bCc1gu

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“Abandon hopelessness, all ye who enter here.” – G.K. Chesterton

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Vin Mariani really did have cocaine as an ingredient, and it really was popular with Pope Leo XIII - as well as Pope Pius X, U.S. President Ulysses Grant, Queen Victoria, and Thomas Edison. Supposedly it inspired John Pemberton to invent Pemberton’s French Wine Coca, which eventually became Coca-Cola. I don’t know what it says that the Coke connection seems more far-fetched to me than a pope endorsing cocaine wine.

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This photo brings back fond memories of worshipping at Norwich Cathedral.  A wonderful space for contemplation.

Norwich Cathedral http://ift.tt/1JgvFEC

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This is frightening.

Stift zu Unserer Lieben Frau, Regensburg, Germany