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		<title>Elk Bones &#8211; Dust to Dust</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2024 08:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Then the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man&#8217;s nostrils, and the man became a living person. &#8211; Genesis 2:7 NLT By the sweat of your brow will you have food to eat until you return to the ground from which you were made. For you were made from dust, and to dust you will return.&#8221; &#8211; Genesis 3:19 NLT When Adam sinned, sin entered the world. Adam&#8217;s sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned. &#8211; Romans 5:12 NLT For all creation is &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Frogs III &#8211; Rescue from the Pit</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jul 2023 08:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Praise the&#160;Lord,&#160;my soul;&#160;all my inmost being, praise his holy name.Praise the&#160;Lord,&#160;my soul, and forget not&#160;all his benefits—who forgives all your sins&#160;and heals&#160;all your diseases,who redeems your life&#160;from the pit&#160;and crowns you with love and compassion,who satisfies&#160;your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed&#160;like the eagle’s. Psalm 103:1-5 NIV knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. &#8211; 1 Peter 1:18-19 Some of my earliest memories in &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Whales</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thomas Trock]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2022 08:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:21 KJV Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.&#160; Jeremiah 33:3 Most of you know that despite living their entire lives in water, whales are not classified as fish, but as mammals. Whale sightings are a bit unusual for someone who lives in the inland mountains, so managing to get a picture &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Praying Mantis I &#8211; Egg Casing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2022 08:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[O LORD, what a variety of things you have made! In wisdom you have made them all. The earth is full of your creatures. Psalm 104:24 NLT Some years ago, I went to our county extension service and obtained plans to build a bat box. I was tired of the mosquitoes which plagued our backyard each summer, and since I’m not much for spraying poisons, I thought I’d try a more natural solution to knock down the evening insect population. If you know anything about bat boxes, they need to be elevated about 12 feet or more to keep predators &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Evening Grosbeak</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thomas Trock]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2020 08:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. Romans 8:19-21 There is something very special which takes place whenever I have the privilege of touching a wild animal. It is beyond words. Most of the times when this happens, I have no chance of getting a picture, but on rare occasions &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Old Bones</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2020 08:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By the sweat of your brow will you have food to eat until you return to the ground from which you were made. For you were made from dust, and to dust you will return. Genesis 3:19 NLT One of the reasons I never tire of hiking in the mountains is I never know what I may find. When I do stumble across interesting things from the past, I call them treasures (See Mountain Treasures, Treasure Hunt). Not long ago, Cosmos, our newfound yellow lab from the animal shelter, and I came across two freshly shed antlers. This made an &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Quail Watchman</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thomas Trock]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2017 09:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My son, pay attention to what I say; turn your ear to my words. Do not let them out of your sight, keep them within your heart; for they are life to those who find them and health to one’s whole body. Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. Proverbs 4:20-23 (NIV) For thus has the Lord said to me: Go, set a watchman, Let him declare what he sees. Isaiah 21:6   We are fortunate to have some remarkable sights out our back window. Pictured above is a male California quail. During the &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Trout Logic</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thomas Trock]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Oct 2017 08:03:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“…go to the sea, cast in a hook, and take the fish that comes up first. And when you have opened its mouth, you will find a piece of money; take that and give it to them for Me and you.” Matthew 17:27 There are things which often amaze me when I catch a trout. Perhaps I’m easily amazed. But in modern times, when many people seem to have to push the envelope on just about everything to find excitement, maybe that’s not such a bad thing. One thing which amazes me when I catch a trout is that I &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Cedar Waxwing</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thomas Trock]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2017 08:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Then God said, “Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens.” So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.  And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” Genesis 1:20-22 When our wild cherry trees begin producing fruit we have &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Deer &#8211; Strength</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thomas Trock]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Aug 2017 08:13:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[He stood and measured the earth; He looked and startled the nations. And the everlasting mountains were scattered. The perpetual hills bowed. His ways are everlasting. I will rejoice in the LORD, I will be joyful in God my Savior. The Sovereign LORD is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to tread on the heights. Habakkuk 3:6, 18-19 Considering the brutal winter we had this year, it is noticeable to me the number and size of deer we have around our home this summer. Over the winter, I saw evidence of &#8230;]]></description>
		
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