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"Dear to us ever is the banquet and the harp and the dance and changes of raiment and the warm bath and love and sleep."
~Homer
Discover the beautiful wildflowers of Jordan
Tolle Lege 2018
"Dear to us ever is the banquet and the harp and the dance and changes of raiment and the warm bath and love and sleep."
~Homer
“So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God”
~I Corinthians 10 :31 (ESV)
~I Corinthians 10 :31 (ESV)
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3 comments:
Wow! That plant is a living oxymoron; simultaneously saying Touch me and Keep away!
I love their shape.
Awesome!
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