POWER OF LIGHTING

Lighting is hard on trees.

This lighting strike took out my internet too.

But I thank God it only took a router to 

get back in business.

Some of it finely blew down.

But the old tree is still hanging in there.

CHROME TREE

The only place I know where they grow chrome trees
is in North West Arkansas.

MY PHOTO TEST NUMBER 2

MY PHOTO TEST NUMBER 2

KNOTHOLES

In this area some trees have holes in them.  They tell me 

they are called "knotholes".

Now if they are not holes, what are they?

Pardon my play on words.

My observation has been that they are only in trees. 

 Has that been your experience too?

I've noticed something else about these knotholes.  

I have lived more years than most people, but I 

have never heard of a knothole expert.  

You know, a specialist.

You have heard of tree surgeons.  But hey!,

 this is the age of specialization

 and we are not talking about trees -

 but knotholes.

A specialist is some one who is a "know it all" about 

a detail.

Now that should make you smell an opportunity.  If you

 have never even heard of a "knothole expert or specialist", 

that means the field is wide open.  No competition.

You can be the pioneer.   Just develop a course of study 

on knotholes.  That would be "knotholeology"

Then write up your thesis.

Get your doctorate.

Then you would be doctor "Knothole DOK"

Just imagine.  Doctor Knothole with no competition.

WHEN LIFE IS DRIED UP

These pictures were taken

in a time of drought.

While studying satellite maps

I noticed that in the national

forest were groves of tress that

appeared to be lush and green,

while every thing else was

dead looking.

Yes, some of these groves had

streams running through them.

But not all. Some were a long

way from the stream or at a level much higher than the stream. These

pictures were taken in on of these groves.

Of the groves I was able to visit, there was one common factor. All were

relatively level. They were like bottom land, or a flood plain. Even those

much higher than the stream. The water did not just run off during a

rain like the rest of the forest, but had been retained and had to soak in.

Every thing around was dried up.

But these groves still had moist

soil and even mud puddles. As

you can see, even green leaves

and flowers - during a time of

drought.

Life tends to be like the time of drought. It tries to dry us up and blow us

away. But if we will spend time in the Word of God. Soak it up. Let it

saturate us. Then we can be like these groves, green while every thing

around us is drying up.

"Happy are those

who reject the advice of evil people,

who do not follow

the example of sinners

or join those who have no use for God.

Instead, they find joy

in obeying the Law of the Lord,

and thy study it day and night.

They are like trees

that grow beside a stream,

that bear fruit at the right time,

and whose leaves do not dry up.

They succeed in everything they do."

-Psalms 1:1-3 TEV