There’s still snow on the ground, here in New Jersey, but any day now, we’ll be able to see these little guys skating on the water. In a few tiny micro-climates, they’re already at work.
Water striders don’t sink because they’re subtly balanced on the water’s surface tension. How cool is that?
Don’t ask me what the kittens were doing up there in the tree-house in the first place. Maybe their mother decided to have them there. Now watch what happens when the very young kittens decide to investigate the attached sliding board. Curiosity and cats.
Fortunately, Mommy’s here to help. Contrary to the academic prattle of today, motherhood is real. It’s part of God’s stuff, and it works.
If still haven’t decided which is cooler, ringing rocks or lake guns. Both make inexplicable noises.
Both are easily observable in nature, and both puzzle the dickens out of those who observe them. Lake guns go boom, and no one knows why. Every theory they came up with has a hole in it. Meanwhile, all over the world, for longer than history, the lake guns continue to go boom…
https://leeduigon.com/2015/08/30/another-mystery-of-gods-creation/
Behold the Caspian tiger–known to Shakespeare as the Hyrcanian tiger (mentioned in Macbeth, Act 3, Sc. 4)–shown here in a European zoo, in the 19th century.
Once upon a time the Caspian tiger roamed Asia from Turkey to China. Its closest relative, the Siberian tiger, was only a little larger. This magnificent beast was wiped out just before the end of the 20th century–yet another example of how poorly communist countries served as stewards of the natural world. The Soviet Union finished them off.
Tigers in Turkey? Well, yeah. And a lot longer ago than that, the favorite sport of the kings of Assyria, in what is now Iraq, was lion-hunting. No more lions around there now, either.
Seems a pity, doesn’t it?
This is Mr. Nature, waiting for God’s restoration and regeneration of the world.
Wow! Just like in Lintum Forest. Only when you see the white doe in Lintum Forest, it means you’re in for strange adventures. Like the one that befell Ryons in The Palace.
It snowed like crazy here yesterday, all day, finally tapering off at night. We were watching a Columbo episode when my eye strayed to the window: and there, standing in the yard, hardly ten feet away, was a doe. This time Patty saw it, too. And as we looked, another doe came along, and they both looked back at us. The spell broke when a car pulled into the parking lot and found the deer in its headlights. Contrary to the popular turn of phrase, they both ran away. But their tracks were there this morning.
No big deal, to a lot of you: but where we live, it seems almost miraculous that there should be any deer at all.
What could be more fragile than a butterfly? And yet, at least from time to time, a lone butterfly crosses the Atlantic Ocean.
https://leeduigon.com/2015/10/18/monarch-butterfly-crosses-the-atlantic-ocean/
Don’t you just absolutely, positively love it when something that cool happens?
God’s way of telling us we don’t know everything; but He does.
I tag these videos “Sanity Medicine” for a reason. There’s so much insanity around; and the cellar is flooded with wickedness. But this is God’s stuff. It’s good. It’s sane. Cats and babies, and a little glimpse into what the Lord has in store for us, when he restores and regenerates Creation. And all that bad stuff will be gone. Forever.
A little good news, for a change:
The sun is out today–finally!–I took a bike ride, and the first green shoot of our ancient tulip by the front door has peeked out from under the leaf litter. I don’t know how long a tulip lives, but we’ve been here forty years and I can’t remember a spring without this flower.
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. –Genesis 8:22
The Lord is not asleep at His post, nor has He forgotten His creation, which includes us. The flowers awakening for the spring have a message for us: “God is nigh.”
Hi, Mr. Nature here–this time with a giant hedgehog.
If scientists are reading the fossils right–they do try–Deinogalerix was about five times the size of today’s cute and cuddly hedgehogs (see illustration). It once lived in Italy. It doesn’t anymore. You’re not going to get me to walk into the “X millions of years ago” trap. I have learned not to have much confidence in prehistoric dating schemes.
It’s estimated the giant hedgehog weighed ten pounds and grew to two feet long. I don’t know whether it had the typical hedgehog spines: maybe those haven’t been preserved as fossils, or have yet to be discovered. A spineless hedgehog would be somewhat of a letdown.
We marvel at the many forms of God’s handiwork, and we do wish we could have seen some of these creatures from long ago (however long ago it was). And who says He hasn’t found another place for them?
F/9.0, 1/1250, ISO 400. Downy Woodpecker Teacher: Bob please point to America on the map. Bob: This is it. Teacher: Well done. Now class, who found America? Class: Bob did. Interesting Fact: Woodpeckers don’t sing songs, but they drum loudly against pieces of wood or metal to achieve the same effect. People sometimes think this drumming […]
via Dont Mess With Me, I Can Peck You Up! — Through Open Lens
Here’s a little bit of God’s stuff, courtesy of “Through Open Lens”.